Techfun

or have the LJ servers seemed slow as hell lately? I don’t know if its the badwidth they have or the server capacity but I hope more people consider becoming paid members so theres some money to address this issue. I use the Semagic client and I often have to submit my postings [...]

One of the women I work with sent me this after we had been discussing the 18th and 19th century French Housewive’s Manuals that were popular for years. probably noticed them in Cod if she’d read it yet.

Click the small pic to get the readably sized copy.

I am finally feeling like I’ve gotten over that cold thats been lingering since a few weeks ago. I haven’t missed any work over it or anything but I’ve really felt like I was dragging. It made time slow down while I was at work and time speed up while I was asleep. [...]

A poster in the community had a clever idea about what you can do with your ticket stubs after the movie.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/adbusters/157319.html

Norwegians set up porn website for the environment
Two young Norwegians have set up a porn website to raise money to help protect the environment.
“In light of the turn things are taking in the world today, I think that this is a very honourable way of raising money for environmental causes,” said Tommy Hol Ellingsen, the [...]

Under the radar of almost every environmental and energy-study group, The Christian Science Monitor reported on Feb. 25, 2004, “At least 94 coal-fired electric power plants - with the capacity to power 62 million American homes - are now planned across 36 states.” As FTW has long predicted, oil and gas shortages would inevitably lead [...]

CrossPosting
There is an interesting, in depth, article about the diamond industry posted to the LJ community that I wanted to point out.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/adbusters/156798.html

Brian and I saw “Fahrenheit 9/11″ on Saturday afternoon. Having read most of the books he uses for reference there wasn’t much that was new to me in that area, but there were things shown that I had not even thought about. the main section - nothing is given away here - is the [...]

There is a nice collection here:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ART/index.html
I particularly llike

This was rather interesting.
http://www.amconmag.com/2004_06_21/cover.html