February 2012
Cotton Candy Forum - Fxi launches cotton candy... →
Specifications include an ARM® Cortex™-A9 (1GHz) CPU from Samsung, an ARM Mali™-400 MP (Quad-core, 1.2GHz) GPU, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, HDMI output and the Android operating system. It decodes MPEG-4, H.264 and other video formats and display HD graphics on any HDMI equipped screen. Operating systems supported to date include Android Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich as well as Ubuntu. On-screen...
Favorite Cookbooks: Béatrice Peltre - 101... →
The Cool Hunter - Amazing Places To Experience... →
adelynSTONE: The BEST Play-Dough Recipe →
Watch(via Allegiance the Musical - World Premiere Production — IndieGoGo)
How to Make a Death Star Cake Tutorial on Cake... →
I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave - Mother Jones →
Fossils of world's tallest penguin discovered -... →
New Zealand was once home to the tallest penguin species ever known — a lanky bird that stood as high as 4.2 feet (1.3 meters). The penguin, dubbed Kairuku grebneffi, lived about 27 million years ago in a penguin paradise. More of New Zealand was underwater at the time, with only today’s mountaintops emerging from the sea. That made for excellent coastal nesting for a number of penguin...
Italy and its glory! Tour Rome, Florence, Genoa,... →
Cake Wrecks - Home - Here Comes the Snide →
Morris schools get more | Daily Record |... →
All 39 school districts in Morris County saw an increase. The county will receive a total of $143.8 million for 2012-13, a 9.3 percent increase from the previous year. But that’s still $26 million less, a drop of about 15.3 percent, compared with the $169 million it sent to the county in 2009-10.
Daily Kos: N.J. Gov. Chris Christie guts... →
The gay sheriff in the Republicans' latest... →
On the same day he resigned from a volunteer position as co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in Arizona, but said - perhaps unrealistically - that he would continue as Republican congressional candidate. His slogan had hitherto been that it was time to send a sheriff to Washington DC. But the notion of sending a gay sheriff to sort out Capitol Hill - that might come as a...
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant... →
Twitter: The Modern Day Complaint Department –... →
Floating Solar Trackers Boost Efficiency and Slash... →
Maker of Controversial Insecticide Launches "Bee... →
Seven Burgers Go Up Against Shake Shack's -... →
“The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of...”
– New Life, From an Arctic Flower That Died 32,000 Years Ago - NYTimes.com
Low-tech designs for keeping food fresh in the... →
“State agriculture officials who say the new law led to a chronic shortage in...”
– Immigrants Trickling Back To Ala Despite Crackdown : NPR
“There is plenty of research showing that low general intelligence in childhood...”
– Conservatism Thrives on Low Intelligence and Poor Information | | AlterNet
Rockaway woman wins 'Cupcake Wars' - Daily Record →
Ikea as Rat-Maze - Ideas Market - WSJ →
You can buy stuff from Ikea on Amazon! →
“The open-science revolt, catalyzed just a few weeks ago as a reaction to...”
– What is the Federal Research Public Access Act and why should you care about it?
Meet the youngest person on Earth to achieve... →
TODAY'S GRASSROOTS: How they'll succeed in... →
Moochers Against Welfare - NYTimes.com →
Whoopie pies →
Jeremy Lin and the Guy Who Saw Linsanity Coming -... →
A Year of Slow Cooking: Slow Cooker TV Dinners →
5 MINUTE MARVELS | Spend five minutes drawing... →
Morris County Library Databases
With adds, drops and tweaks, we begin 2012 with 35 databases, about half of which you can also use from home. (Sometimes the cost of remote access is prohibitive!)
New this year are:
PowerSpeak: instruction in seven foreign languages and ESL for Spanish and Mandarin speakers
Dow Jones LP Galante, venture capital firms
S & P Industry Surveys (has been added to our existing S & P NetAdvantage)
Prices for Antiques, auction prices for collectibles and art
LoisLaw
PACER, the US Courts electronic case tracking system Expanded is Foreign firms in../US firms overseas, from UniWorld. We had a subscription to NJ only, have expanded it to national. This resource is particularly valuable to those of you who are bilingual and might look for employment with overseas firms having offices here, or vice versa.
To Make Perfectly Cooked Steak, Sear It When... →
40 Amazing Hipstamatic Photos Of The War In... →