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10 shopping tricks stores hate

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Here's a good list of tricks that stores hate when you do them.

My favorite two are:

  • Buy "Accessories" on Ebay Rather Than Paying Huge Markups

  • Shopping in the Store But Buying Online

Taken from the Consumerist which is a great website (that stores hate) :)




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Abandoned Islands in Japan

Found some cool picture gallerys taken of abandoned islands in Japan.


Islands



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Diebold hacked from a photo

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Insert your favorite profanity word here When you see this _________

Diebold the _____ company that is entrusted to build voting machines that we the ____ public of the USA use when we vote had a picture of a key on thier website.

What might that _______ picture of a key be you ask??

Well it is a picture of a key like the kind you use to open the door to your house. Except this _____ key opens the voting machines which allows you tinker with them.

The kids at Princeton University looked at the ____ picture and then went to the local _____ hardware store and bought key blanks. Then they took them home and started filing them to match the picture. and low and ____ behold when they mailed the keys to someone who had acces to a Diebold voting machine 2 of the 3 keys opened the machine up.

Diebold quickly swapped the ____ picture on their website once half of America started laughing at them.

More _____ info can be found at these links:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066

Here is a _____ video:


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77 ways to make your home more appealing to sell

I found a good reference if you are trying to sell your home.

These are things to help make it more appealing to potential buyers:


http://www.1031exchangelowdown.com/2007/01/77_surefire_way.html





Photo by ~ rAmmoRRisOn ~


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Incredible mural painter

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

I don't know who this guy is but he is a kicks ass mural painter

http://www.xs4all.nl/~orcl0606/Oracle/NWG/NeedAPainter.html

His web site:

http://www.ericgrohemurals.com/projects.html

Wonder what the cost is for some of these. OK his name is Eric Grohe.

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Gerald R. Ford Missing Man Formation Flyover

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

I shot this video today of a the F15 flyover at the end of Gerald R. Ford burial ceremonies today. This is a missing man formation F15 flyover dedicated to the late U.S. president Gerald R. Ford. This happened on January 3, 2007 around 5 p.m.

The river is the Grand River which runs through Grand Rapids which is also home to the Gerald R. Ford presidential Museum which is located on the banks of the river. The smoke in the beginning is a from a 21 cannon salute at the museum before the burial.



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Step up to the challenge GM, Ford, and Chrysler

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

These two video's will show you how far GM, Ford, and Chrysler have to go to be competitive. It's sad how far behind they are in reliability.

I present the Toyota Hilux with 190,000 miles and 13 years old.

You might think that is not that big of a deal, well watch these two videos and then get back to me:




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