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From a fascinating exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail 1700-1915.” These are the actual clothes worn at the time, not reproductions. Deliberately ostentatious finery worn by aristocrats opposed to the French Revolution Working class style vest with slogans worn by aristocrats favoring the French [...] This tiny house is well-designed and constructed of high-end material. ThincHomes ships it completely assembled. This model is 192 sq ft and sells for $32,000. That’s $166 per ft, which is comparable to upscale prices. TinyHouseBlog has more. Scoble profiles IBM’s research into lithium air batteries for cars. [IBM] hopes to have a lithium air battery in cars by 2020. A battery that could power a car for 500 miles would certainly be worth the wait. Washington’s Blog Conservatives and liberals actually agree about the most important things. In fact, most Americans – conservatives and liberals – are fed up with both of the mainstream republican and democratic parties, because it has become obvious that both parties serve Wall Street and the military-industrial complex at the expense of most Americans. [...] In May 2010, then Attorney General and now Governor Jerry Brown filed lawsuits against former California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) board member Alfred Villalobos and former CalPERS CEO Fred Buenrostro for fraud, failure to disclose gifts, and Villalobos bribing Buenrostro to influence CalPERS investment decisions. Villabobos at the time had left CalPERS and earned [...] A man electrocuted himself while trying to steal copper wire from an electrical substation by cutting the wire. The wire was, of course, live. I’m guessing drugs or alcohol might have been involved. A picture is worth 1,000 words. AutoBlogGreen has full information on this joint venture between BMI Corporation and the Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Stuart Bramhall on the US war-based economy and the collapse of genuine democracy. It only became clear once I left the US the immense sacrifices Americans make for their cheap gasoline and consumer goods. The most obvious is a range of domestic programs that other developed countries take for granted. These include publicly financed universal [...] Backupify is the leading backup provider for cloud based data, offering an all-in-one archiving, search and restore service for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter and more. They have a free version that backups up five accounts. The train wreck that is the California budget negotiation continues. If Gov. Brown doesn’t get the special election or the measures don’t pass, then things will get very dire indeed.Crossposted from CAIVN. The California legislature must agree by a two-thirds vote to hold the June 8 special election that is essential to Gov. [...] |  | ||||
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