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Taptivism

2012-08-09T02:32:00.000-05:00

http://www.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/xw47w/once_plants_and_animals_were_raised_together_on/

marijuana

2012-01-10T23:30:00.000-06:00

i love math

2012-01-06T09:10:00.000-06:00

If you didn't get your fill of John Dufilho at the Deathray Davies show on NYE, here's your chance to experience one of the best musicians in Dallas. His solo project I Love Math plays tonight at the All Good Cafe. Tell him gnomead's galaxy sent you so I can get free shit! Just kidding, I get all the free shit I want from my asshole. Speaking of free shit, here's an I Love Math tune from their 2008 album Getting To the Point Is Beside It for your downloading pleasure!

I Love Math - Volcanic Ash

thanks to MAC THE WOLF for the heads up

Texas refineries may get $135M refund while teachers lose their jobs for lack of funding

2011-09-26T23:21:00.000-05:00

APNewsBreak: Texas refineries may get back $135M

By Ramit Plushnick-Masti

Associated Press

Published September 26, 2011

PASADENA, Texas — Three commissioners appointed by Gov. Rick Perry may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $135 million — money Texas' cash-strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

The property tax refund would mean more pain for some communities after a year in which state lawmakers grappled with a $27 billion shortfall and slashed spending on public schools by more than $4 billion. Nearly half the refund would be taken from public schools, and those in cities where the refineries are based would be hurt most.

"We were already cut at the knees as it is, but more cuts? It's appalling," said Patricia Gonzales, a single mother of 13-year-old twins at Park View Intermediate School in Pasadena, a refinery town just south of Houston. Gonzales is president of the school's new parent-teacher organization, formed this summer after the state budget cuts left the school lacking everything from pencils to paper towels.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is evaluating 16 requests for the refund, which concerns a piece of pollution-controlling equipment. If granted, the refund total for those requests could add up to more than $135 million, according to county tax data and application documents analyzed by The Associated Press. What's more, agency documents show that if the commission grants the requests, at least 12 other refineries that have not sought a refund also could qualify.

The three-person commission last year expressed some support for the refund, prompting concern the panel is preparing to side with the industry in the middle of a budget crisis....................................................................................................................................................................

http://galvestondailynews.com/ap/aa6919/

priceless...

2011-07-02T09:51:00.000-05:00

@kaeporaNadim Kobeissi

It's important to remember that both Visa and MasterCard still allow donations to the Ku Klux Klan, but specifically block WikiLeaks.

Wikileaks and Datacell to sue Visa & MasterCard for 'US influenced financial blockade'

Wiki Leaks Visa Master Card

centro-matic - candidate waltz

2011-07-01T07:57:00.001-05:00

centro-matic - Only In My Double Mind

BONUS TRACK!

Will Johnson - Iso Residue (acoustic)

http://www.centro-matic.com/

BUY IT HERE!

USE THE MACHINES UNTIL THE MACHINES USE YOU

2011-06-23T11:37:00.000-05:00

velvet underground - wild child (the doors cover)

janes addiction - la woman (the doors cover live)

Ween - Riders on the Storm (live Doors Cover)

Light My Fire - Stevie Wonder (The Doors cover)

Nirvana - The End (Doors Cover)

Ramones - Take It As It Comes (Doors Cover)

The Cure - Hello I Love You (Rare Doors Cover)

NEIL'S FAMILY FRIENDLY BLOG - MicroKORG XL reborn as a keytar

2011-06-09T02:18:00.000-05:00

NEIL'S FAMILY FRIENDLY BLOG - MicroKORG XL reborn as a keytar

Nikola Tesla's Revenge

2011-06-07T04:06:00.028-05:00

ONCE again, worrywarts are wringing their hands over possible shortages of so-called “critical materials” crucial for high-tech industries. In America the Department of Energy is fretting about materials used to manufacture wind turbines, electric vehicles, solar cells and energy-efficient lighting. The substances in question include a bunch of rare-earth metals and a few other elements which—used a pinch here, a pinch there—enhance the way many industrial materials function.

It is not as though the rare-earth elements—scandium, yttrium and lanthanum plus the 14 so-called lanthanides—are all that rare. Some are as abundant as nickel, copper or zinc. Even the two rarest (thulium and lutetium) are more abundant in the Earth’s crust than gold or platinum.

A decade ago America was the world’s largest producer of rare-earth metals. But its huge open-cast mine at Mountain Pass, California, closed in 2002—a victim mainly of China’s drastically lower labour costs. Today, China produces 95% of the world’s supply of rare-earth metals, and has started limiting exports to keep the country’s own high-tech industries supplied.

The rare earth element that other industrial countries worry about most is neodymium.

It is the key ingredient of super-strong permanent magnets. Over the past year the price of neodymium has quadrupled as electric motors that use permanent magnets instead of electromagnetic windings have gained even wider acceptance. Cheaper, smaller and more powerful, permanent-magnet motors and generators have made modern wind turbines and electric vehicles viable.

That said, not all makers of electric cars have rushed to embrace permanent-magnet motors. The Tesla Roadster, an electric sports car based on a Lotus Elise, uses no rare-earth metals whatsoever. Nor does the Mini-E, an electric version of BMW’s reinvention of the iconic 1960s car. Meanwhile, the company that pioneered much of today’s electric-vehicle technology, AC Propulsion of San Dimas, California, has steered clear of permanent-magnet motors. Clearly, a number of manufacturers think the risk of relying on a single source of rare-earth metals is too high.

The latest carmaker to seek a rare-earth alternative is Toyota. The world’s largest carmaker is reported to be developing a neodymium-free electric motor for its expanding range of hybrid cars. Following in AC Propulsion’s tyre tracks, Toyota is believed to have based its new design on that electromotive industrial mainstay, the cheap and rugged alternating-current (AC) induction motor patented by Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American inventor, back in 1888.

read on...

The Handsome Family - Tesla's Hotel Room

Image of Tesla was re-appropriated from the wonderful comic book The Five Fists of Science

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop Trailer

2011-05-22T14:02:00.000-05:00

hospital ships - lonely twin

2011-05-20T08:23:00.000-05:00

one of my favorite band's hospital ships has a new album otw. prepare yourself for a fantastic collection of songs. hospital ships plays a free show tonight at good records at 8pm. see you there...

hospital ships - reprise

hospital ships - love or death

Hospital Ships - "Carry On" w/ St Augustine (From the album "Lonely Twin") from Kütu Folk Records on Vimeo.

free comic book day

2011-05-07T10:29:00.000-05:00

http://www.comicshoplocator.com/

go get 'em

Beloved character actor Osama bin Laden, star of TV's "Fox News", dies age 54

2011-05-02T02:02:00.003-05:00

download

centro-matic - the massacre went well

fishboy and spooky folk

2011-04-23T20:13:00.000-05:00

FISHBOY!

Fishboy - Adrian Simmons

SPOOKY FOLK!

Spooky Folk - Stars

TONIGHT IN DENTON!

karen killin' it

2011-04-16T11:15:00.003-05:00

jc sjb

2011-04-11T15:05:00.000-05:00

jc - I want to go home (sloop john b)

who reads this shit..

2011-04-09T22:28:00.003-05:00

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2011-04-07T00:05:00.001-05:00

almost 20 years ago. I am somewhat disgusted with the state I'd affairs down here, but fuck I love to play music. I'm going to keep doing it until I die.

2011-04-07T00:04:00.001-05:00

street from the legendary Trees club on Elm St. that is now a shell of it's former self. I can't help but think back to Kurt Cobain's scuffle with a bouncer...

2011-04-07T00:01:00.001-05:00

Sitting on a curb in Deep Ellum in Dallas waiting to play at a club called "The Bone" and I couldn't be softer right now. This club resides across the (cont.)

2011-04-06T01:33:00.001-05:00

http://dallasgossip.com/double-wide-owner-plans-to-reopen-winedale-tavern-as-the-single-wide/

WEEN - "The Mollusk"

2011-04-04T14:25:00.000-05:00

YouTube - WEEN - "The Mollusk": ""

sniktbub and stan

2011-03-29T11:11:00.000-05:00

I don't even...

Mates of State - Everyone Needs an Editor

Don't heckle Louis CK

2011-03-28T16:41:00.002-05:00

life goes on...

2011-03-27T15:10:00.002-05:00