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Decoder Rings & Ransom Olds.

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

 Would that there were more stories like this
instead of socio-pathic carnage.
NewsTrack - Top News
Reports: $56,000 got judge his job
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (UPI) — Two New York newspapers say a deposed Brooklyn politician allegedly sold a judgeship for at least $50,000 in cash and another $6,000 in stamps.
($6,000 in stamps?! Was he going to send […]

Posted in Iraq, New York, Graft, U.S.A.F., Toys, War, U.S. Navy |

Grim Moments in Marketing

Monday, January 8th, 2007

The checkered history of powered toothbrushes reveals how batteries wrought a tremendous sacrifice of power and imagination for the sake of size and profit. Let us stumble down memory lane.
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PUH-LEEZE!
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A Cleveland, Ohio entrepreneur, Silesius Horvak, commissioned Allis-Chalmers to construct one of the world’s largest steam engines as the power source for the Steam-O-Dent Oral De-Tartarizator. […]

Posted in Business, Nuclear Issues, Great Britain, Environment, USA, Personal Products, Automobiles, Science, NASA, Industrial Design, Industry, Dental Hygiene, Battery, Cosmology, U.S. Navy, Aircraft, Public Works Projects, Steam Engines |

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