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The cloth diapering world was recently hit with the scandal that the "organic bamboo velour" (and fleece, and terry, and jersey) that has been touted to hell and back as being eco-friendly, naturally anti-microbial and anti-fungal, and an all-around miracle fabric is, in fact, rayon. Oops.

Thank goodness I'm nutty about aggregating my links back to my site, because otherwise I'd have lost them all in the great Ma.gnolia database fail of 2009. As it stands, I just had to dig up my Delicious password and update my Postalicious plugin settings. It only took four months for me to actually do that.

He read up on the situation. The USGS estimated that Antarctica held perhaps fifty billion barrels of oil; only a couple more decades' worth, at current consumption rates. But at twenty dollars a barrel, that was a trillion dollars. Which was only a year of the U.S. government's budget, and only a year of the world's military budgets; but more than enough to pay off all the debts that had the southern nations lashed to the harshest austerity programs the World Bank and IMF could devise. He could see how the logic of the system might drive them to it.

Kim Stanley Robinson, Antarctica (1998)

Oil sets new record near $147 a barrel.

401k debit cards. Because the average American consumer has already shown such great self-control in matters of personal finance that we need to give them fresh rope.

Teh Ceiling Cat giv me cheezburger, teh Ceiling Cat takded mah cheezburger awai. I stil laiks teh Ceiling Cat.

Job 1: 21.

You, too, can read the Bible in LOLcat, courtesy of The LOLCat Bible Translation Project.

There's a reason they call it Helldesk.

What's NõKA worth? The short answer seems to be, "A lot less than you paid for it." I love chocolate, and I so love a good old-fashioned Internet pile-on.

P.S. Dad, you'd probably enjoy reading this.

I ran across one today, by enlarge instead of by and large. This ranks right up there with for all intensive purposes.

Google talk was released this morning after some preliminary testing by Slashdot users.

On the offhand chance that this information may prove useful to someone: the flute track from Busdriver's song "Imaginary Places" on Temporary Forever is from Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 7. Badinerie by Johann Sebastian Bach. The sampled part of this track can be heard as a song sample on 25 Bach Favorites.