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SANTA MONICA, CA— "I played in career mode for hours and kept feeling like I was playing the same annoying circus tune over and over," complained a disappointed gamer.  |
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| Exciting news of a biodiesel station opening up in Berkeley at Ashby Avenue and Sacramento Street. Biofuel Oasis will be a full gas station pumping biodiesel (at $3.65 a gallon) refined for vegetable oil. It will take credit cards and also have a convenience store. Although I don't have the Euro-style diesel super-mini I wish to have, this is still pretty cool!
Drive up, swipe your card and pump -- biodiesel [San Francisco Chronicle] |
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| Here's the design of the new US passport. Looks like they took design cues straight from the Colbert Report. I better hope my passport isn't expiring anytime soon.
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The New Passport Design Is Fugly [Consumerist] |
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| Since that landmark Loving v. Virginia ruling, the number of interracial marriages has soared; for example, black-white marriages increased from 65,000 in 1970 to 422,000 in 2005, according to Census Bureau figures. Factoring in all racial combinations, Stanford University sociologist Michael Rosenfeld calculates that more than 7 percent of America's 59 million married couples in 2005 were interracial, compared to less than 2 percent in 1970.
7 percent is a lot higher than I would have guessed. Thinking about it again though, 7 percent doesn't seem that high considering what I'm seeing here around me.
The stresses on interracial couples can take a toll. The National Center for Health Statistics says their chances of a breakup within 10 years are 41 percent, compared to 31 percent for a couple of the same race.
In some categories of interracial marriage, there are distinct gender-related trends. More than twice as many black men marry white women as vice versa, and about three-fourths of white-Asian marriages involve white men and Asian women.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/12/national/a114116D02.DTL |
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| Great tip from UneasySilence for people like me who access network volumes between Macs, Windows and Linux machines. Macs annoyingly puts .DS_Store files and Windows puts Thumbs.db on remote drives.
Here's a way to turn them off.
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/04/10206/ |
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