Lost that ugly Christmas sweater Aunt Ethel made you in the 80’s, but you need something to wear to your next ugly sweater party? One company has made it their business to provide people with the ugly sweater they need, reports The Street. Self-titled tacky sweater aficionado John Kaplar took his love of these sweaters […]
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EnglishRussia: Recently a new trend appeared in some Russian cities to use the mass chicken egg production as a medium for a short text messages that can instantly reach thousands of people in the city overnight, with a message as clear as it was texted to them by someone.
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Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground. [Source]
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Something I planned to touch on later, in part two (or three) of my Behind the Curtain series, but that seems very apropos to today, the day after the Boston Marathon bombing, is one of my primary rules for maintaining my sanity: ignore the news. I used to be a news junkie. If something exciting
Core77: Berlin-based artist Hans Hemmert (famous for his work with balloons) threw a party where guests wore shoe-extenders to make them all the same height of 2 meters. Aside from bringing the partygoers all to a common eye level (and eliminating the awkward postures of party talk between the tall and the short), the gathering
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1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India. 1902 – James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. 1974 – Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1. 1976 – The United States Treasury Department
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Are you an expert at hiring the perfect employee? Do you want to me on television? A major cable TV network and Stone & Co. Entertainment are looking for the perfect industry leading professional to star in a new television pilot set in the high stakes world of business. The project will focus on the
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People are continuing to profit from Margaret Thatcher’s death after her passing earlier this week. According to the Independent, her death could drive “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead” from the movie The Wizard of Oz to the top of the British charts: Those who saw her death as a cause for celebration have prompted
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There’s a small family farm on eighty acres in western Kansas, that unlike its neighbors who might farm corn, or cattle, this farm has a motto: “If they don’t tumble we don’t sell them!” That’s right, the Prairie Tumbleweed Farm grows tumbleweeds. Not only do they ship worldwide, they also quality test each and every
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Ed Herr of Herr Foods estimates that if they currently made potato chips the same way they did back in the 1940s, they’d cost about $25 a bag. In the video below, he describes other ways the potato chip manufacturing process has changed since the company was founded in 1951.
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