“The massive stadium complex, which once hosted the Detroit Lions, the Detroit Pistons, and the Michigan Panthers, cost more than $55 million to build in 1975. Its selling price in 2009? $583,000.
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NOTE: this blog is more a place to take notes for myself than anything else. maybe you'll enjoy some, too.
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“I was very interested in how it was discarded unceremoniously as medical waste, why it’s discarded and how we could bring it back…” said Green, who thought placentas deserved a symbolic treatment whether they’re saved or not. “It was really about provoking a debate about placentas and how we treat them.
Placenta Teddy Bear Repulses Many
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“Subcategories of the Justin Halpern Myth: Girls Who Turned Their Moms’ Embarrassing E-mails Into a Book Deal, A Guy and Girl Who Turned Their Gross Sandwiches Into a Book Deal, Lady Whose Facebook Update About Her Dog Became a Movie, and Guy Who Got $50K to Copy and Paste Tweets Into a Coffee Table Book.
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“One afternoon in March 2007, Jack Daws stepped up to a newsstand in Los Angeles International Airport with a handful of change, including a counterfeit penny made of 18-karat gold that Mr. Daws, a Seattle artist, had fashioned. He carefully put the counterfeit penny, dated 1970, down on the counter, counted out enough change to pay $11.90 for a Hustler magazine and left.
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“3) Stoners are usually more generous people than the wealthy. The wealthy didn’t make it to the top by just giving money away. Fortunately, there’s a whole different breed of laid back people who’ve cultivated a habit of passing things around. More often than not it seemed like the best tips would come from some shady looking dude who’d just hand over a bunch of crumpled up bills and give an enthusiastic, “thanks a lot man,” before telling you to go ahead and keep the change. When you’d finally get the money organized enough to give it a quick count, it would turn out you’d just scored a $12 tip on a $23 order. Compare this to the house one neighborhood over with a Mercedes in the driveway that graciously gave you $45 on their order of $43.85.
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PHOTOS: Best Wild Animal Pictures of 2009 Announced
The picture, by Spanish photographer Josi Luis Rodrmguez, was selected from more than 43,000 entries. Iberian wolves—a subspecies of the gray wolf—are extremely wary of humans after centuries of persecution. Rodrmguez captured the photograph using motion sensors and an infrared barrier to operate the camera.
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∞ A people's history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Very cool timeline on the history of the internet
