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Screaming Oranges

derickson — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:25:54 +0000

Check out the collection of 40 Extraordinary Examples Of Edible Art…and they are extraordinary. Via noupe.com.

Winter Olypmic Games Posters From 1924 To 2010

derickson — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:42:57 +0000

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The complete list by webexpedition18.

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Anti-Theft Sandwich Bag

derickson — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:56:02 +0000

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Walyou has a list of 16 devices that will help deter thieves. This one is a sandwich bag with built-in mold to discourage those office lunch thieves.

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The Top 43 Sexiest U.S. Presidents

derickson — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:47:33 +0000

Richard Nixon? Seriously? Find out who’s first: nerve.com. Posted via web from David Erickson’s Posterous.

Sink The Bismarck – World’s Strongest Beer

derickson — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:55:44 +0000

BrewDog said its newly released 41%, Sink the Bismarck, would cost £40 for a 330ml bottle and would only be sold online.
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The First Hints Of A Dinosaur’s True Colors

derickson — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:49:51 +0000

Posted via web from David Erickson’s Posterous via npr.org

Scientists have found evidence of some of the original coloration of a dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago, showing that it had rings of orange-brown bristly feathers around its tail.

Fossils have revealed a lot about the lives of dinosaurs, but researchers always used to think that the fossil record couldn’t show what color they were. “This was the one point at which we had to give up,” says paleontologist Mike Benton at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, who explains that fossils tend to preserve an animal’s hard parts, like bones and teeth, and not soft parts like skin.

But feathers are made of tough proteins. “And, in fact, they can survive even in conditions where other internal organs, you know, muscles and guts and brains and so on, will disappear,” says Benton.

Helvetica Cookies

derickson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:45:31 +0000

via beverlyhsu.com

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How To Use A Semicolon

derickson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:29:33 +0000

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What can I say? I was an English Major.

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Adrian Peterson Action Figure

derickson — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:14:01 +0000

Thanks to @Rickb for sending me this!

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Twins Sign Orlando Hudson

derickson — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:50:14 +0000

Twins are getting serious this offseason. First they sign J.J. Hardy, then Jim Thome, now Orlando Hudson and perhaps Jarrod Washburn is next. Hudson hit for the cycle on Opening Day last season: