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Electricity and China; Chinese are more Energy Conscious then American:

Only here in China have I started to think how about big of an energy hog Americans are. We complain so much about the price of oil and electricity but we never really do anything to try to conserve energy. Here in China, it seems that [...]

I took this photo three years ago this week at the lowest point (accessible by car) in Death Valley in California. 
The greenery is a result of a week of rains before our visit.
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God I love The Onion.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

The votes are in and the winner is winners are - in a  three way tie -  Chelle of The Offended Blogger, Thomas of  Photos from Northern Norway. and Claire of A Little Piece of Me.
Please take a moment to visit their blogs via the links over in the Contest Winners section on your right.
Congratulations [...]

Chica over at Photo Projectz has started another photo contest exercise called Project Edit with Multiple Choices.  I decided to give it a shot.  My last entry in one of his her contests was quite slapdash and rushed effort so I decided to spend a little more time this go around.  I finally finished it [...]

I came across this article in this week’s mailing from Physics World.  After listening to the Joy of Science from The Teaching Company I actually understood it too!  This stuff sounds pretty cool. 
Researchers create ’self-healing’ rubber
Rubbery materials can be easily stretched, but it is not easy to mend them when they break, as anyone who [...]

This will teach me about trying to do contests.  We have four entries to vote on.  Here they are are in order of submission:
 

Chelle B. of http://www.theoffendedamerican.com/

Thomas L. of http://blog.thomaslaupstad.com/

Claire of http://crpitt.blogspot.com/

Uncle Loquacious from http://www.loquaciouscurmudgeon.net/
Please cast your vote for the sign you would most like to see in a metro/train station near you [...]

I’ve had some major problems with some hardware this weekend so I am late starting the voting for the sign contest.  I will try to get the four candidates up for a vote tomorrow.

The war in Iraq, the collapse of the housing bubble, the far reaching Abramoff corruption scandal, the U.S. attorney firings, no-bid contracts for Halliburton, Cheney’s superduper top secret Energy Task Force, Halliburton’s KBR overcharging the army for fuel in Iraq, Tom DeLay’s PAC money laundering problem, Government produced imitation news-report videos, the Department of Education [...]

Brian got me a Wii for Christmas (I got him SIRIUS Radio for his long commute) and we have been playing it almost every day.  We have bought a few additional games for it but we keep coming back to the sports game that came with the unit.  We’ve tried other stuff, but we spend [...]