I *do* live in Lincoln, NE. And while I don't like the fact that the city council gave them an exclusive contract (I'd love to get some Verizon FiOS action), I have to say that I've never had any major problems with my cable TV service, and the only major problem I had with my internet (certain sites that use IP to…

"With celebrities like Tom Cruise and John Travolta lurking in the background, who knows what this venture could turn into. "

I watch way too much TV. I read this and the first thing I thought of was the episode of Friends where Ross is freaking out over this happening to his luggage while Rachel is trying to tell him about her and Joey.

And it's stupid why? Because you're not interested in it? Because it doesn't apply to you? Maybe someone needs to read a couple articles up and take other people's perspective...

Its all a matter of cost. Burying lines costs a lot more than overhead lines. We are getting a high-voltage power line through the city core. The project, which is to be 63% buried, will cost an estimated $42 million. If it was all overhead, it would have cost only an estimated $5 million.

And as long as the queen ant - who is sequestered in the middle of the ant colony and doesn't roam out foraging like worker ants - is not involved, she'll just sit there and lay more worker ant eggs.

It's the joke from one of the T-Mobile "I feel richer with Straight Talk" commercials

Yeah, I saw that yesterday when I had to do a factory reset on my phone (could not get wi-fi to work no matter what I tried) and needed to reinstall everything. Now I wish they would add a way to remove software that I no longer want or need (like old games and the stuff from my old VM phone) from the app list.

Where's the endive (pronounced "OHN-deev")? I must serve it with my Cornish hens!

So is the soil your plants are growing in.

There was a story last month on former Gawker site Consumerist about a pole vaulter whose poles were sent to the wrong airport. I'd link to it but Consumerist appears to be down...

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Then the plants would be starving, because they would be getting less nitrogen from bugs (and the same from the limited amount in the environment).

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And you sir are way off the mark.

Nothing wrong with poaching them on the stove, you just don't get the extra smokiness you would get poaching them on the grill (according to the article). Of course, you could flame roast some veggies on the grill and add them to the poaching liquid to get some of that smokiness back. Mmmm, flame roasted peppers and…

There are four stable isotopes of calcium, two radioactive isotopes with very long half lives, and one radioactive isotope that is being produced by cosmic ray activation. Stable isotope 40Ca (20 protons and 20 neutrons) is the most common, 97% of total calcium.

It probably depends on what you are growing. Some orchid growers actually use clear pots so that the roots get sun and give a boost of photosynthesis to the plant, but that's because a lot of orchids in nature are found as epiphytes so they are used to having roots exposed to sun. Terrariums are usually in clear glass…

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