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willisistalking: stadium-love-: Staples Center to host 6...

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:08:21 -0500

stadium-love-:

Staples Center to host 6 playoff games in 4 days - Associated Press

Staples Center is always among the world’s busiest arenas, hosting a jam-packed slate of concerts and shows crammed between games for the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers and the NHL’s Kings.

But the downtown Los Angeles venue is preparing for its craziest weekend ever. After a remarkable run of simultaneous postseason success, Staples Center’s three main tenants are combining to host six playoff games in just four days.

Starting with Game 3 of the Kings’ Western Conference final against the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday night and concluding with Game 4 of the Clippers’ second-round series against the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night, the building will host a noon-to-night barrage of dunks and slap shots, 3-pointers and glove saves in a succession of pressure-packed postseason games. Read More

Pretty crazy.

Three teams using one arena?

Playoff games?

This is too much for this Minnesotan to comprehend.

Virgin Airlines to allow in-flight cell phone calls

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:48:10 -0500

Virgin Airlines to allow in-flight cell phone calls:

soupsoup:

Passengers on certain Virgin Atlantic flights are now able to use their cell phones to make and receive phone calls at 35,000 feet, the airline announced Tuesday.

I hope they have phone booths on the planes.

Hmm, maybe that explains Linden Hills, mid-North Minneapolis,...

Mon, 14 May 2012 21:01:23 -0500

Hmm, maybe that explains Linden Hills, mid-North Minneapolis, and NE-NE Minneapolis being red?

Minneapolis BikeScore heat map. The Midtown Greenway bike...

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:24:55 -0500

Minneapolis BikeScore heat map. The Midtown Greenway bike highway sure stands out.

That said, question their scoring based on downtown Minneapolis, where it’s certainly possible to bike but not bike friendly throughout. And, while there may not be many dedicated bike lanes in Linden Hills or western North Minneapolis, it’s still bike friendly.

"Rep. Karen Clark, DFL-Minneapolis, for example, saw the open purse as a chance to grab some money..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:48:57 -0500

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Rep. Karen Clark, DFL-Minneapolis, for example, saw the open purse as a chance to grab some money for the poor, requesting $400 million in bonding to fix up public housing “creating the same number of [construction] jobs as the stadium, coincidentally.”

Or not coincidentally.

Rep. Morrie Lanning R-Moorhead, sponsor of the stadium bill, called Clark’s amendment “not germane” and “another attempt to spend money we don’t have.”

I swear, he did this with a straight face.

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- Vikings stadium sausage making.

good: According to a new Pew study, increasing your earning...

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:43:48 -0500

good:

According to a new Pew study, increasing your earning potential may require literally moving on up: If you aim to climb the income ladder in the United States, your best bet might be to move north and east—and definitely stay out of the south.

"Many ethanol producers routinely add antibiotics like medically important penicillin and..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:04:46 -0500

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Many ethanol producers routinely add antibiotics like medically important penicillin and erythromycin, as well as virginiamycin and tylosin, when mixing corn mash and warm water to ferment the ethanol.

Producers use antibiotics to keep the tanks from being contaminated with Lactobacilli, bacteria that compete with the yeast and lowers the ethanol yield. Contamination is common so tanks are often inoculated as a preventative measure.

So, what does this process have to do with food safety and antimicrobial resistance? Well, the leftover distillers grains can contain antibiotic residues and they are routinely fed to food animals.

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- If our goal was to generate antibiotic resistant bacteria, this could be a way to go about doing so on a large scale.

unconsumption: Public Trash Cans That Aren’t Overflowing with...

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:02:27 -0500

unconsumption:

Public Trash Cans That Aren’t Overflowing with Empty Coffee Cups - Design - The Atlantic Cities:

Copenhagen designer So Hoj noticed, and was bothered by, piles of spent coffee cups spilling out of trash cans and onto the sidewalk around the city.

Hoj, a self-employed designer with a background in accessories, took up the problem herself by converting tall, slender cardboard tubes from the post office into receptacles for discarded cups.

The idea is simple enough: you can hold more cups in a smaller space when they’re stacked neatly inside each other. Hoj’s theory was that this would alleviate the cup problem by giving them their own, more compact space, and leaving larger trash cans for other items.

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She mounted her “test tube” cup collectors and put them on two trash cans along the waterfront. Quickly, her fellow Copenhageners caught on.

Here’s what the the trash cans used to look before her solution:

: Stadium Bill Passes! (No—Not That One)

Fri, 11 May 2012 10:32:11 -0500

: Stadium Bill Passes! (No—Not That One):

mn70s:

Vision of a Downtown Minneapolis Stadium, Circulated by Boosters of the Bloomington, MN, Site, c. 1977

How’s this for a coincidence:

On May 11, 1977, the Minnesota legislature approved a bill clearing the way for construction of a new stadium somewhere in the Twin Cities metro area. The…

The downtown entertainment taxes that were used to pay for the Metrodome shifted to the convention center and are now back to pay for another stadium. But, since the NFL’s taste in stadiums has far outpaced inflation and the growth in our local economy, the state had to come up with $350 million through gambling revenues to meet the NFL’s demands.

Minnesota

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:24:00 -0500

dmdhashw:

thecallus:

Right now, union workers are holding a protest because they want to pass a bill that would give the NFL’s rich-ass owners hundreds of millions of dollars. They’re protesting to keep their tiny piece at the behest of super-rich interests. This is a microcosm of everything that we are fucking up.

I didn’t realize people outside of the Midwest were paying attention to this.

nickdouglas: shitfucktory: $ 0.99 Researched: It exists, for...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:37:07 -0500

nickdouglas:

shitfucktory:

$ 0.99

Researched: It exists, for charity.

My zip, 55406, contributed $15,521 toward presidential...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:08:58 -0500

My zip, 55406, contributed $15,521 toward presidential campaigns.

55412, with blue tarped roofs from last May’s tornado, were good for $797.

The recent immigrants at Cedar-Riverside in 55454? $150.

naylonger: The next time somebody argues the private sector can do education better than the government, ask them the Talking...

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:02:31 -0500

naylonger: The next time somebody argues the private sector can do education better than the government, ask them the Talking...:

naylonger:

Everyone scratched their heads recently at a reading comprehension question on a standardized test for New York State schools. Here’s an excerpt of the question:

The pineapple could speak English too. “I challenge you to a race! Whoever makes it across the forest and back first wins a…

Bloomington, MN’s Pearson deserves more credit for what it’s doing to screw up American’s education system.

unconsumption: Two pallets = instant bike rack This DIY...

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:52:36 -0500

unconsumption:

Two pallets = instant bike rack

This DIY “pallet bike rack” photo has been making the blogosphere and Pinterest rounds over the past several months. I’ve seen it so many times that I thought we’d already featured it in our extensive group of pallet-related posts; turns out we had not … until now!

Find more Unconsumption bike-related posts here.

(photo via lowtechatmo on Flickr)

Photo

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:05:27 -0500

Member of the US House of Representatives from Minnesota’s...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:45:01 -0500

Member of the US House of Representatives from Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, Keith Ellison, whips out his Blackberry to respond to Vikings fans lobbying him on Twitter to vote for public financing of a Vikings stadium.

While misdirected in this case, it is cool to see people who don’t normally pay attention to politics learn more about how a bill becomes a law. People are streaming MN Senate committee meetings!

Screenshots on Android trick for my phone is to press power,...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:05:38 -0500

Screenshots on Android trick for my phone is to press power, then Home while power is pressed. Works on the HTC 3D. No idea if this is a universal Android, HTC, etc. thing.

I figured out how to take screenshots on my Android phone.

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:02:37 -0500

I figured out how to take screenshots on my Android phone.

Photo

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:14:49 -0500

This Guy is Insane

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:28:19 -0500

This Guy is Insane