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Last login: 4 weeks agoGregux: Greg is a 45 year old single guy from Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.; Likes 2,209 pages, 7 videos, 31 photos • 178 fans • Received 32 reviews; Member since Nov 13, 2005

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Low-tech Magazine: Email in the 18th century: Dec 23, 2007 7:01pm 8 reviews history, technology
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/12/email-in-the-18.html; It's a shame something like the "optical telegraph" discussed here has fallen into virtually forgotten history. It looks very simple from our 21st Century vantage point, but to someone in the 18th Century, it was cutting edge. We should remember things like this, both to show how far we've come and to remind us that sometimes we really haven't come all that far. We're not doing anything different from the way we used to, we're just doing it faster.

Top 10 Common Methods of Suicide - The List Universe: Nov 18, 2007 2:16pm 0 review mental-health
http://listverse.com/health/top-10-ways-to-commit-suicide/

The New York Times & Log In: Sep 23, 2007 4:29pm 0 review news
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/arts/24cnd-marceau.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6988343.stm: Sep 10, 2007 3:49pm 3 reviews news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6988343.stm; (Sometimes, if you click on this link, you'll get a 404 Error. Just come back to this page and click the link again. Since this is a BBC page, I assume it's just the British way of doing things.)

Obituary of Dame Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop.

I wasn't a customer of The Body Shop, but some of the women I've been involved with over the years were, and they swore by her products. They were high quality and their manufacture and testing were cruelty-free, a first in the cosmetics industry.

I first heard of Roddick while watching a segment about her on "60 Minutes." I was struck not only by her drive and intelligence, but her dedication to her principles and her ingenuity. When she first started The Body Shop and was making her products in her kitchen, she needed inexpensive containers. That quest led her to a medical supply company, and resulted in her first offerings being packaged in bottles intended for collecting urine samples.

It's unfortunate that someone like her is now gone, and equally unfortunate that there are not more like her around -- an entrepreneur with vision and conscience, whose business plan does not consist solely of grasping market share.

Credit-card firms monitor gasoline-pump purchases: Jun 16, 2007 9:52pm 1 review news
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0616biz-gascardlimit0616.html; This is really shitty. Not only are gasoline prices in the U.S. getting to be more than many people can afford, now you can't even pay if you've got the money!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Bully_Asshole.jpg: Jun 16, 2007 9:21pm 1 review humor, photography
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Bully_Asshole.jpg; Some days are so full of bull, it's a real pain in the ass.

YouTube - Rie Fu - 2cm (Live): Jun 16, 2007 8:13pm 1 review music, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=vgan2l1f17; (Direct link to the YouTube page)

Phonecam recording of a recent performance in London. Low video quality and too much ambient noise, but Rie Fu's voice still comes through strong and clear. It's obvious she is a very talented singer, not one who needs to be rescued or enhanced in the mix. I like this particular video because it satisfies my passions for live music, the female voice, singer-songwriters, and Japanese women :)

Anime fans will recognize her from ending themes she did for the shows "Bleach," "Gundam Seed Destiny," and "Darker than Black."

13 Secrets for Speaking Fluent Japanese: Apr 14, 2007 10:56am 0 review japan
http://www.speaking-japanese.com/

Kat Litter Cake -- Gifts Impossible to Re-Gift - Instructables - DIY, How To,: Dec 27, 2006 4:31pm 1 review cooking
http://www.instructables.com/id/E5CT2EY3C6EVYDUD4C?ALLSTEPS; I love cats. I've had a few over the years, and I've loved each of them as much as the dogs I had. But cats can be a bit of a nuisance, especially if you have too many. All of us know someone who's gone one kitty over the line, and what it's like when we go visit them. Here's a nice little treat to feed that feline overindulger.

Metroblogging Tokyo: Suicide: Nov 14, 2006 6:37pm 7 reviews japan, society
http://tokyo.metblogs.com/archives/2006/11/suicide.phtml; I saw this a couple of weeks ago and it's been lingering in my mind ever since. The implicit sadness of the article really caught my attention. Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, so something like this goes virtually unnoticed. An unfortunate example of Joseph Stalin's bitchy observation: "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic."