Reminders By Phone Call

rminder.com allows you to create your own reminder and set it for a specific day and time.  At the specified day and time it will call the phone number you give it and read you the reminder you wrote into the website.  Use it to remind yourself, family, or friends of important things.  A free account allows you up to 8 reminders a month, while pay accounts allow more. "Never forget the important stuff again." rminder.com

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Electric Cars Are Coming! ....... Over 20 Years Ago

Car and Driver magazine in 1980:
The media are making all kinds of noise lately to the effect that electric cars are coming, that they’re going to help us kick our imported-oil habit, and that you’ll be able to drive them for pennies a day.A company that can develop a non-petroleum-fueled car palatable to the masses stands to make a pretty good buck. That’s why GM will shell out some undisclosed number of billions on electric vehicle development during the next five or so years. It’s a tall order, but GM is already well on the way to pulling it off. Whether the buyers will be there, however, is a question GM is still struggling to answer. A study commissioned by Gulf & Western predicts that we’ll have something like 34 million EVs - about one quarter of the national fleet - on the road by the year 2000. GM ... has publicly committed itself to mass-producing electric cars by the mid-to-late 1980s – probably 100,000 per year or more.
Sound familiar??  This isn't the first time the auto industry has promised us greener, electric powered cars. Pressure must stay on the automotive industry, or again the promises might not be followed through.

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The Warning signs of INSANITY

  • Your friends tell you that you have been acting strange lately, and then you hit them several times with a sledgehammer.
  • Everyone you meet appears to have tentacles growing out of places that you wouldn't expect tentacles to be growing from.
  • You start out each morning with a 30-minute jog around the bathroom.
  • You write to your mother in Germany every week, even though she sends you mail from Iowa asking why you never write.
  • Every time you see a street sign, you have a tremendous urge to relieve yourself on it.
  • You wear your boxers on your head because you heard it will ward of evil dandruff spirits.
  • You're always having to apologize to your next door neighbor for setting fire to his lawn decorations.
  • Every commercial you hear on the radio reminds you of death.
  • People stay away from you whenever they hear you howl.
  • Your breath smells more and more like squirrel dung each passing day.
  • You laugh out loud during funerals.
  • Nobody listens to you anymore, because they can't understand you through that scuba mask.
  • You begin to stop and consider all of the blades of grass you've stepped on as a child, and worry that their ancestors are going to one day seek revenge.
  • You have meaningful conversations with your toaster.
  • Your father pretends you don't exist, just to play along with your little illusion.
  • You collect dead windowsill flies.
  • Every time the phone rings, you shout, "Hey! An angel just got its wings!"
  • You like cats. Especially with mayo.
  • You scream "I've got a knife!" to people who try to sell you things.
  • You scream "I've got a knife!" to people at your family reunion.
  • You cry at the end of every episode of Gilligan's Island because they weren't rescued.
  • You put tennis balls in the microwave to see if they'll hatch.
  • Whenever you listen to the radio, the music sounds backwards.
  • You have a predominant fear of fabric softener.
  • You wake up each morning and find yourself sitting on your head in the middle of your front lawn.
  • Your dentist asks you why each individual tooth has your name etched on it, and you tell him it's for security reasons.
  • Melba toast excites you.
  • When the waiter asks for your order, you ask to go into another room to tell him because "the napkins have ears."
  • You tend to agree with everything your mother's dead uncle tells you.
  • Every time you see the commercial for the Hair Club For Men, you think to yourself, "I think I'll kill the Pope today."
  • You call up random people and ask if you can borrow their dog, just for a few minutes.
  • Your main goal in life is to become the president of Bulemia.
  • Nearly everything you say involves the word, "P-toing!"
  • You argue with yourself about which is better, to be eaten by a koala or to be loved by an infectious disease.
  • You like to sit in cornfields for prolonged periods of time, and pretend that you're a stalk.
  • You think that exploding wouldn't be so bad, once you got used to it.
  • You try to make a list of the Warning Signs of Insanity. (cough)
  • People offer you help, but you unfortunately interpret this as a violation of your rights as a boysenberry.
  • You like reading lists like this.

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Blog to the Future

In WWI William Henry Bonser Lamin kept a journal and wrote letters of his daily life.  Now, 90 years later, his entries are being put up 90 years to the day that he made them on a blog.  Read the history of a soldier of WWI as if it were currently happening.  Learn about the time, the war, and the people. WWI: Experiences of an English Soldier

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