Been waiting for this news all my life.
TOP Gear presenter James May is looking for volunteers to help him build a new house in Surrey – but one made entirely out of Lego bricks.
As part of his BBC series James May’s Toy Stories, he plans to build a two-storey house in the middle of Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking.
On Friday, more than three million Lego bricks were delivered to the vineyard in preparation for the task.
My cell phone number: xxx-xxx-0033
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American Express’s new number they’re using (and which shows up on Caller ID) when they’re demanding their money from people: xxx-xxx-0333
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A dozen confused people who can’t make their credit card payments calling me at all hours every day… and probably assuming I’m trying to scam them somehow.
And he’s comin’ on strong.
Final recording from Jonestown, November 18, 1978. 44 minutes of preaching and death. Yeesh.
In some ways, they were both right.
Not really sure why these guys wanted to interview me, but the whole thing turned out to be quite a bit of fun. Check it out, then go update my Wikipedia entry.
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Pundit Derrick Jensen says: Conservation, recycling, and personal green technologies are useless. Interesting and very sad piece on why, as a race, we’re pretty much doomed.
Favorite quotes:
“Even if every person in the United States did everything [An Inconvenient Truth] suggested, U.S. carbon emissions would fall by only 22 percent. Scientific consensus is that emissions must be reduced by at least 75 percent worldwide.”
“Collectively, municipal golf courses use as much water as municipal human beings.”
“Municipal waste accounts for only 3 percent of total waste production in the United States.”
Still, I guess change has to start somewhere… sigh.
Open up Google Maps. Zoom in all the way without moving the location/cursor.
The center of the Googleverse is Coffeyville Country Club in Kansas.
Ever wonder what the aliens are watching on TV?
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Christopher Null is a technology, business, and entertainment journalist, the founder of Filmcritic.com, chief mixologist at Drinkhacker.com, and the author of the books Half Mast and Five Stars! Catch his daily commentary on the technology world at Yahoo! Tech.
