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The world’s heaviest insect?

I really hope one of these does not show up in our apartment - Breezy freaks out enough over the regular cockroaches that come by…

This map shows major transmission lines as well as power generating capability - both now and if wind and solar energy ever are efficient. It is also interesting to see how off by itself Texas is…

In your high - rise apartment. Seriously.

An interesting website I found. Haven’t read enough to have formed opinions - except to know I found it interesting.

Disappearing Rings.

from Apple?

Britain puts medieval soldier records on the web.

Profiles.

Though there are some semi-coherent thoughts in this article - I found the fact a sports writer from ESPN wrote an article talking about the destruction of real-journalism by Twitter high comedy. Yeah - a sportswriter - from ESPN. The only thing sports writers, ESPN, and real journalism all have in common is they sometimes all reside together on the internet. I say sometimes because I think real journalism usually must be relentlessly pursued to be captured  - like some rare exotic animal.

Great Stuff….

Dealerships that are closing. Include Phil Long and Burt dealerships in Colorado.

I am not sure I will agree with the producers as to the high quality of the production, but to make a film for the purpose of releasing it directly onto the internet to be downloaded is fascinating. And, likely, the future of film-making.

There are traffic cams in Houston as well and I do seriously think they harm traffic flow. You cannot approach an intersection without thinking about the camera - which hinders your natural reactions and causes you to do things you wouldn’t necessarily do if they weren’t there - like slam on the brakes unexpectedly.  

And yes i got a ticket from one. Apparently I didn’t come to a complete stop before turning right on red.

In Hong Kong.