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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Cow Power

by Rob Friesel

Via /.: Central Vermont Public Service has launched Cow Power, a system by which power users can opt to buy 25, 50, or 100% of their electricity from dairy farms that run generators on methane obtained from cow manure. Cow Power costs only 4 cents/kWh more than market price, so a household like mine would […]

dream.20060710: patchwork/montage

by Rob Friesel

Stitching together a tank top from scraps like a jigsaw puzzle. Underground, nuclear ICBMs lined up like the different available sizes of ice cream cones. Sneak through houses into basements to find secret passageways (but you need to build them, cut them out of the wall first). Invade homes to rip up carpets and burn […]

oldest Accord ever?

by Rob Friesel

Via Autoblog: 1976 Honda Accord may be the oldest still running… The Goat [Johnson’s GTO] had been eating a hole in Johnson’s pocket because of the era’s high gas prices, so he picked up one of them new fuel-efficient 1976 Honda Accords… But what I find to be the real “point” here is that not […]

Atlas F-lashback

by Rob Friesel

In a “that’s where I know you from” moment: reading the 28-June cover story in Seven Days (“Bombs Away” by Cathy Resmer), I get to this passage: Why would he want to live in an underground missile facility? “Who wouldn’t?” asks the cheeky Aussie. “The cool factor is just unbelievable.” Michael spends six weeks each […]