Protecting Elves From Highway Construction
 

Protecting Elves From Highway Construction Is A Thing In Iceland
[URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/31/iceland-elves-construction_n_4178150.html"]Huff Po Link[/URL]:davieddy:

Gee! Can't be too careful! :drama:

Elves might refer to retail worker hired just for the end-of-year season.

One-off fat trike attempts world record Antarctic trip
 

[url]http://www.gizmag.com/one-off-fat-trike-antarctic/30179/[/url]

[QUOTE]Last winter, polar explorer Eric Larsen attempted to become the first person to cycle to the South Pole. Continually stymied by deep, unrideable snow, Larsen fell behind schedule and was forced to abandon the attempt. This year, several others are taking up the challenge. Thirty-five year-old British adventurer Maria Leijerstam is hoping the ticket to success is a fat-tired recumbent trike built to task.[/QUOTE]

I was almost really excited when I read the following headline:

[URL="http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/12/amazon-hints-at-huge-prime-numbers-following-its-new-feature-reveals/"]Amazon hints at huge Prime numbers after news of drones & Sunday delivery[/URL]

I was really hoping they had put large swaths of their EC2 service to work running Prime95! Unfortunately, this had nothing to do with huge prime numbers. :no:

One-off fat trike attempts world record Antarctic trip -SUCCESS!
 

Good on ya, Maria! :tu:
[url]http://www.gizmag.com/south-pole-fat-trike/30245/[/url]
[QUOTE]Shortly before Christmas, we heard about 35 year-old British adventurer Maria Leijerstam's [URL="http://www.gizmag.com/one-off-fat-trike-antarctic/30179/"]planned attempt[/URL] to ride to the South Pole on a recumbent fat-tired tricycle. On December 27th at 1am GMT, she achieved that goal, becoming the first person to ever successfully cycle from the edge of the Antarctic continent to the Pole.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://www.gizmag.com/one-off-fat-trike-antarctic/30179/"]http://www.gizmag.com/one-off-fat-tr...tarctic/30179/[/URL]

Quote:
Last winter, polar explorer Eric Larsen attempted to become the first person to cycle to the South Pole. Continually stymied by deep, unrideable snow, Larsen fell behind schedule and was forced to abandon the attempt. This year, several others are taking up the challenge. Thirty-five year-old British adventurer Maria Leijerstam is hoping the ticket to success is a fat-tired recumbent trike built to task.

got this link from slate.
yakusa, human exploitation and money, everything you love, for the new year.
[url]http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Latest-News-Wires/2013/1231/Fukushima-radiation-cleanup-Send-in-the-homeless[/url]

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Fukushima radiation fallout in northern Japan requires a $35 billion cleanup
that's behind schedule and lacks workers. Police say Japanese gangsters
rounded up homeless men to clean up Fukushima radiation and paid them
less than minimum wage.
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Interesting title for an op-ed piece:
[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/koch-brothers-still-trying-break-wind-op-ed-173844913.html"]The Koch Brothers Are Still Trying to Break Wind[/URL]:ick:

[URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/15/us-usa-crime-texas-woman-idUSKBN0DV1W620140515"]Texas woman, 31, arrested for posing as high school teenager[/URL]

A case of life imitating [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1148204/"]art[/URL]!?

[QUOTE]A case of life imitating [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1148204/"]art[/URL]!?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966604/[/url]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;363657]Interesting title for an op-ed piece:
[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/koch-brothers-still-trying-break-wind-op-ed-173844913.html"]The Koch Brothers Are Still Trying to Break Wind[/URL]:ick:[/QUOTE]

[quote]Given that the planet needs to transition as quickly as possible away from coal and natural gas to carbon-free energy to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, who would be against renewing wind's tax credit?[/quote]
Um, people who don't equate "carbon footprint reduction" with "wind energy is the future!" ? Just saying, that's a classic rhetorical ploy the op-ed uses there. I could similarly ask
[quote]Given that the planet needs to transition as quickly as possible away from oil to carbon-free energy to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, who would be against renewing corn ethanol's tax credit?[/quote]

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[QUOTE=Xyzzy;373679][url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966604/[/url][/QUOTE]

And [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102583/[/url] ... wonder how many in this genre our readers can come up with.