An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
NIELS BOHR, Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Month: May 2008
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Buy a car, get a free gun
A Missouri car dealer said on Thursday sales have soared at his auto and truck business since launching a promotion this week that promises buyers a free handgun or a $250 gas card with every purchase.
Max Motors, a Missouri dealership that has as its logo a grimacing cowboy wielding a pistol, has sold more than 30 cars and trucks in the last three days, far more than its normal volume. And owner Mark Muller credits his decision to start offering buyers their choice of a $250 gas card or a $250 credit at a gun shop.
We all go to church on Sunday and we all carry guns,” said Muller. “I’ve got a gun in my pocket right now. I have a rifle in my truck. We’ve got to shoot the coyotes out here, they’re attacking our cows, our chickens. We’re not clinging to nothing. We’re just damn glad to live in a free country where you can have a gun if you want. This is the way it ought to be.
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Jeremy’s Stache At Day 17
Here is Jeremy at day 17 of his mustache project. I must admit it looks kinda weird. It almost makes me feel uncomfortable.
I think he looks like Ben Stiller in DodgeBall… He also looks like a bad porn star from the 70’s. Pay respect to the man though! This guy has to face his office coworkers on a daily basis. I’m not even talking about what his neighbors might think of him.
I am entering day 8 of my mustache growing project. Follow my day to day project on my Flickr page.
The Envision Solar Grove is a highly customizable, aesthetically-designed, photovoltaic-integrated parking lot solar system. Originally designed for Kyocera Solar, the simple elegance of the Solar Grove lends itself to a variety of surroundings and terrain that could otherwise prove challenging to more standard designs.
The design is based on a  graceful analogy, known as “biomimicry” — just as a citrus grove absorbs sunlight to produce food, a Solar Grove absorbs sunlight and produces energy. The language of the analogy continues—the frame and modules of the Solar Tree become its “canopy,†the support structure becomes the “limbs†and “trunk,†while the base foundation and wiring beneath the earth is known as the “taproot.â€
The Envision Solar Grove can be sized and positioned to meet the needs of the facility, and is particularly useful in sloping parking lots or lining curved edges. The single support column per tree allows for unhindered maneuverability about the parking area. Unique heavy-duty light fixtures turn on automatically at dusk and shine up toward the canopy, which illuminates the parking area for nighttime safety. Eight translucent solar modules, allow light to pass up through the tree to create another visually appealing sight. During the day, these translucent models allow dappled sunlight to pass through to the ground — a bit like leaves on a real tree would allow.
There is some amazing stuff out there on the Web–resources, tools, tricks, and tips. Problem is you spend so much of your time just keeping up with new technologies – learning, playing – and this doesn’t leave much time to go hunting for the latest and greatest tool, or for a better way of doing things. I’ve made this list to make your life easier.
- CSS Typeset – Interactive CSS generator
- Open Source Directory – An archive of the Web’s best Open Source software, applications and references
- .htaccess Creator – Online tool to create .htaccess files
- Pipe Bytes – Send files of any size through any Web browser. No software to install
- Dummy Text Generator – Generate text by number of paragraphs, words, bytes or lists
- FileZilla – Free FTP client and FTP server
- Font Sizer – Let visitors change the font size on your site. XHTML, CSS, and PHP source available
- Recaptcha – Captcha helps prevent automated abuse of your site, ensuring only humans perform certain actions; free
- Web Site Thumbnails – Get thumbnails of any Web site
- RSS Best Design Practices and Icons – All things RSS including free icons
- Firebug – Edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any Web page
- Convert HTML to RSS – Generate an RSS feed for almost any Web page
- Convert RSS to HTML – Creates a widget displaying a specific RSS feed in HTML
- Free PDF online conversion – Converts various files (DOC, PUB, RTF, XLS, PPT, HTML, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, WMF, EMF, GIF etc.), to PDF online, then e-mails you the PDF
- Web 2 PDF – Allow your visitors to create PDFs of any Web page
- 100 High Quality and Free WordPress Themes
- Feed Journal – The next generation newspaper, FeedJournal turns your RSS feeds into a newspaper formatted PDF so you can print it out and read it anywhere – free
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Government Regulation of Franchises
In the United States, all franchisors must abide by the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Franchise Rule, which requires franchisors to prepare a disclosure document called the Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (UFOC ) / Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) and give a copy of that document to prospective franchisees prior to their purchase of a franchise.
The UFOC / FDD document consists of 23 different categories, which contain information such as basic investment, franchise fees, a financial statement of the franchisor and earnings claims (if the company discloses that information), how long the franchise will be in effect, bankruptcy and litigation history (including civil judgments and felony convictions) and information about the franchisor’s executives (such as past experience).
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21 accents by Amy Walker
Amy Walker is saying the same thing over and over again with different accents: “hello, I’m Amy Walker, I’m 25 and I’m from…”
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The $175 burger
Its creators admit it is the ultimate in decadence: a $175 hamburger.
The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised its price from $150 to assure its designation as the costliest burger in the city as determined by Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most expensive things in New York.
The burger, created by chef and co-owner Kevin O’Connell, seeks to justify its price with a Kobe beef patty, lots of black truffles, seared foie gras, aged Gruyere cheese, wild mushrooms and flecks of gold leaf on a brioche bun.
They sell 20 to 25 per month…
By connecting his cellphone with his Twitter account, this guy is able to turn his lights on/off. Pretty cool isn’t it. One question remains though: why use your cellphone to turn off your lights when you can just get up and switch off the light? Ok, ok, I get it. The result doesn’t matter; what matters is that you can do it.
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