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Pet Calendar

Rated Jun 20 2007 • 1 review • cats, calendar, cute photos, kittens, awww • petassure.com

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Rated Jun 20 2007 • 1 review • comics, history, humor, nostalgia • wilsonsalmanac.com

"1910 Krazy Kat, by George Herriman (1880 - 1944), made his or her debut in comics. In a 1999 special issue, The Comics Journal named Krazy Kat as 'the greatest comic strip of the 20th Century', and many comic artists have acknowledged the influence Herriman had on their work.

"Krazy Kat was a comic strip created by Herriman, appearing in both weekday and Sunday US newspapers published by William Randolph Hearst. It grew from an earlier comic strip of Herriman's, The Dingbat Family. Herriman would complete the cartoons about the Dingbats, and finding himself with time left over from his 8-hour day, filled the bottom of the strip with the slapstick antics of a cat and a mouse ..."

Fans of the comic included Umberto Eco, Charles M. Schulz, and Jack Kerouac.

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Pet Calendar

Rated Jun 19 2007 • 2 reviews • cats, calendar, cute photos, kittens, awww • petassure.com

Snickers Says:
"Better Late than Never !"

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Rated Jun 19 2007 • 1 review • photography, key west, pretty stuff • keysnews.com

Parasailing in Key West




Key West Storm

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Thomas Dolby - Pandora Internet Radio

Rated Jun 18 2007 • 1 review • rock music, music, 80s • pandora.com

From the page:

"Dolby promoted himself as a kind of mad scientist, an egghead that had successfully harnassed the power of synthesizers and samplers, using them to make catchy pop and light electro-funk. ..."

"The son of a British archeologist, Thomas Dolby (b. Thomas Morgan Robertson, October 14, 1958) originally attended college to study meteorology, but he was soon side-tracked by electronics, specifically musical equipment. He began building his own synthesizers when he was 18 years old. Around the same time, he began to learn how to play guitar and piano, as well as how to program computers. Eventually, his schoolmates gave him the nickname of 'Dolby,' which was the name for a noise-reduction technology for audiotapes; he would eventually take the nickname as a stage name. ..."

"In his late teens, Dolby was hired as a touring sound engineer for a variety of post-punk bands..."

"For the rest of the late '80s and early '90s, Dolby continued to score films, producing and he began building his own computer equipment. ...Dolby founded the computer software company Headspace, which released The Virtual String Quartet as its first program. For the rest of the '90s, Headspace occupied most of Dolby's time and energy. ...[In 1994], Capitol released the greatest-hits collection, Retrospectacle."

Best-known hits:
She Blinded Me With Science
One Of Our Submarines

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Rated Jun 17 2007 • 1 review • cats, cute photos, kittens, awww • kittybytes.com

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Mathaba Vision

Rated Jun 17 2007 • 1 review • flash, truth • mathaba.net

I was going to give this a thumbs-up, but it's waaa-aa-aay too long, at around 9 minutes.

Anyway, it's a nice (for awhile) little flash presentation of "The Basics" - kind of like the Golden Rule...


It's a good reminder...

The music is very nice, the first couple of times through: it's an endless loop that plays the whole time.


Highly recommended for folks with insomnia........

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Rated Jun 17 2007 • 1 review • economics, petroleum, energy • myway.com

From the page:

"So you're at the gas station filling up your vehicle, and without warning the gas pump shuts off. What? The tank isn't full, and you know your credit card isn't over its limit. ..."

"Caps on transaction amounts -- or the total dollar amount of gas a customer can pump into their car -- are limiting some drivers of gas-guzzling vehicles. ..."

"When a customer uses their credit card at a cardholder-activated terminal, such as a gas pump, the transaction is authorized without knowing the final bill of sale. ..."

"Credit card companies say the policies, which aren't new, are designed to ensure that merchants and consumers are protected from fraudulent transactions that could occur at a gas pump. ..."

"[T]here are no limits if a customer goes inside and pays with their credit card at the counter.

"The caps went unnoticed when gasoline prices were low."

Sounds to me like it's more to protect the credit card companies !

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