Retrophisch
“Ries Robb ownes and operates Ries Robb Woodworking, making reproduction and custom arts and crafts furniture.”
Local to me (Dallas/Fort Worth), and I love Mission style furniture, so this is for future reference.
Tags: furniture
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“In Gaza, they don’t vote for Hamas because they want access to university education.”
Tags: gaza, hamas, islam, israel, terrorism
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“Learning how to think straight, as opposed to what values and opinions to hold, is the crucial part of education. Part of that learning is to be able to understand the distinction between subjective statements, for which there are no commonly accepted standards of proof, and positive statements for which there are.”
Tags: economics, education, freedom, liberty
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“This site is a compilation of gun show dates around the Dallas and Fort Worth area. I originally created the listing for my own purposes as there was not a single source for all gun shows in the area. All of the listed dates were taken from the websites listed for each show.”
Tags: dallas, firearms, fort worth, texas
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Professor Keshav said that once a carrier invests in the centralized storage equipment — storing a terabyte now costs only $100 and is dropping — and the staff to maintain it, its costs are basically covered. “Operating costs are relatively insensitive to volume,” he said. “It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million.”
UNTIL Mr. Kohl began his inquiries, the public had no reason to think of the text-messaging business as anything but an ordinary one, whose operational costs rose in tandem with message volume. The carriers had no reason to correct such an impression.
Tags: communication, phone, text messaging
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“Northrop Grumman unveiled its first completed X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System at its Palmdale, Calif., manufacturing facility. This giant UAV could soon be one of the most lethal unmanned aircraft in the U.S. military.”
Tags: aircraft, military, navy, uav
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“Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.”
Tags: mac, quicktime, software, video
“Instructables.com member TimAnderson uses a 1942 Popular Science article as a guide for creating a DIY gas mask.”
Tags: diy, hack, science
For you typeface neophytes, a nice introduction to typography by the folks at Collide Magazine.
Tags: design, font, typeface, typography
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I wish I could explain why I love this captioned picture so much. It never fails to make me smile.
Tags: animal, bird, fun, humor, photo
This is rather impressive.
Tags: food, fun, movie
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Not surprisingly, Texas has the highest property tax as a percentage of median income. What this map does not show, however, is that there is no state income tax in Texas, as opposed to a low property tax state like California.
Having lived in a property tax + income tax state before (Louisiana), I like what we have here in Texas. Percentages of funds generated from property taxes are also specifically allocated (schools, for instance), rather than just going into a black hole account.
Tags: finance, liberty, politics, taxes, texas
“We believe transparent government is better government. Twitter enables real conversation between lawmakers and voters, in real time. Find your representatives in Congress, follow them and give them a tweet full!”
Tags: congress, government, politics, twitter
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Chris Hicks is the designer of Hasbro’s line of Mighty Muggs figures, which run the gamut of Star Wars (of which I have several), to Indiana Jones (I have just Indy himself), to Marvel super heroes (Captain America). Hicks confirms Transformers Muggs are on the way.
I just wish Hasbro could work out a deal with DC. I’d love a Mighty Muggs Batman…
Tags: design, toys
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