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Monday, February 28, 2011

A Few Random Morning Links ...

The Urwerk UR-110 is Uber-Cool. (pic via aBlogToRead)

Hands-down the coolest calculator ever, the TI-NSpire CX.

Turtles are cool, they use magnetic fields to travel, and ever wonder how they survive under frozen lakes for months without breathing? (the book)

Puerto Rican rice with green olives, I'm 100% on board with that.

Wait, what the heck is a Porsche Tapiro?

I would love my own archipelago.

Rochester, NY subway fire, 1904.

Did you know that Lewis and Clark used an air rifle on their famous expedition? (more here & here)

Don't believe the nonsense that the U.S. manufactures nothing anymore.

Noodler's Bernanke Black and Blue 'Fast Dry' Inks, and an earlier post.

Pentagon keeps redoing the bidding until Boeing wins the USD $30 billion-plus tanker contract. Guess where Boeing's HQ is? Yup, Chicago.

Is traffic enforcement in large part just a source of revenue generation? (hint: yes)

I love pine nuts, this is an odd story.

Lotus rebrands itself
, and swings for the fences.

Old-school, the Fuller Brush Man.

4 comments:

John Straub said...

Thanks for linking to my blog on the Porsche.

Speedmaster said...

No prob, John. Thanks for stopping by and posting!

Mike said...

Thanks for the link to RochesterSubway.com! It wasn't a subway fire as you say, but a great fire nonetheless :-)

Brian Goulet said...

Thanks so much for linking to my post! The Bernanke 'Fast-Dry' inks are a hoot, aren't they?

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