"Facing mounting criticism for erecting a 20-foot statue of a robot that some have labeled a “monstrosity,” the longtime mayor of Ankara, Turkey, arrived at a solution: He replaced it last week, at taxpayer expense, with a replica of a 32-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex. A flamboyant politician who’s been mayor of the country’s capital city since 1994, Melih Gökçek had responded to backlash over the initial statue by saying “Respect the robot,” only to later announce plans to replace it with a dinosaur, because the robot “got on the leftists’ nerves.”"
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"This is the Flow honey harvesting system. It consists of a box beehive with 3-D printed honeycombs inside that bees fill with honey, then cap off. Once the honeycombs are completed, a simple twist of a handle splits the honeycombs, creating a channel for the honey to flow through, and out into jars. Afterwards, the whole process is repeated again. Simple! So simple even a child could do it. Provided that child is cool getting stung by a bunch of bees and dying like Macaulay Culkin in 'My Girl'. You know what would be even cooler than a honey harvester though? A BARBEQUE SAUCE HARVESTER. My God, I would just load my mouth up with nuggets and stand directly under the tap. What kind of animals produce BBQ sauce anyways? "You are so dumb." What? I've never been to a farm before."
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With 21 Grams Sturkenboom has managed to create an opportunity for a truly libidinal mourning experience. The “kit” comes in a sleek, Jobsian case, openable only with a key that doubles as a lovely pendant necklace. Inside you find an atomizer bulb (to spritz your beloved’s perfume), a set of internal speakers to amplify music from the iPhone dock in the back, and a blown-glass dildo containing a tiny urn of ashes—21 grams of ashes, to be precise.
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Never knew this was a thing. And seriously guys? =p "Creators of sites like OnlyTheBreast.com frame the online exchanges as an alternative to pricey donor milk banks, which screen and pasteurize milk. That site had about 27,000 members last year and is adding about 800 more each month. While men are helping to drive this increase,..."
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You can't introduce cows milk to babies until they are around 12 months old; their digestive systems can't handle it. I was an overproducer, but I froze my milk, so my son could keep getting it long after I stopped breastfeeding. I considered donating to a milk bank, but I was too busy with school to deal with it. This "black market" milk is just scary.
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Some really celebrate a kid's first communion (for mine, we just had a get-together after the church service, no gifts) -- if you're not sure, I'd ask. A lot of time, you're not expected to, but it really depends on the family/church.
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Fired up theoldreader.com for the first time in years. Hadn't looked at this since a short while after the end of Google Reader. Seems like it's been doing well. With FF gone and FrenF still finding its feet, might delve back into RSS feeds again for the time being.
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Is it just me or is the ability to see who liked/unliked a post not working? I can't see the list of people unless it's on someone else's post and I've already liked/unliked it.
Not working for me, either. When I click the number next to the smiley/frowny face, the smiley/frowny face simply disappears.
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You need to get the direct image link from the article and include that in the post in order to embed an image here.
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Think it has something to do w/Safari's Flash plugin. If I kill the process in Activity Monitor the issue goes away. But reappears after awhile.
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"As a Chinese restaurant in America, we have a lot of people send back dishes to the kitchen, and this is culturally the greatest offense to us. This is unheard of in China. If you don’t like a particular dish, you don’t eat it, and then you don’t go back to that restaurant. In China, you would get your shit kicked in in the back of an alley if you sent a dish back."
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The bit about the spice level makes me chuckle a bit, because man, I hate spice scales in restaurants. I like to know if a dish is really hot, but 3 peppers vs. 10 stars vs. 2 unicorn heads.. it's all so relative. The only time I've really liked that is when they've got something relative, like "3 is like having 1/2 of a jalapeno in each bite" or "6 is like a dab of tabasco sauce in each bite," or they just go ahead and list the relative scoville units likely to be in a dish with a list that shows corresponding peppers.
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Although the best milk I've ever had was cow milk in Taiwan one year awhile ago. Had a very rich, distinct taste to it. Not the tasteless stuff we have in the US.
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I really like goat milk, especially the local stuff they sell at my co-op sometimes. It's a bit expensive, so I don't buy it too often.
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