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"In his testimony Friday, Michael Williams, the chief electronics technician aboard the Transocean-owned Deepwater Horizon, said that the rig’s safety alarm had been habitually switched to a bypass mode to avoid waking up the crew with middle-of-the-night warnings."
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"This is all part of what I think is one of the weirder aspects of our culture: a heightened freneticism that seems to demand that we be doing, at a minimum, two or three things every single moment of every hour that we’re awake."
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"The recent request by a company that transports gas in Pennsylvania to be declared a “utility” would give it the power to condemn property for pipelines."
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Notes Don’t boycott BP. Consume less oil.It’s not just cars. It’s plastic bottles. It’s CDs and DVDs and records. It’s paint. It’s film. It’s diapers. And thousands of other products.
If you want to make a difference, walk or ride a bike. Stop buying bottled water. Never, ever let anyone put your purchased products in a plastic bag. If you want to punish the oil industry, use less of their product. Giving your money to Exxon instead of BP doesn’t change anything [via andres, ericmortensen].
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This is a awesome story.
Jens Voight wins my vote for MVP of the Tour de France this year. He had my vote early on after watching him absolutely destroy himself on some nasty climbs to put his team lead, Andy Schleck, into position to take the yellow jersey. But yesterday sealed the deal.
After having a tire blow out on a fast descent forcing a crash that would send most mortals to the hospital and out of the race he was stranded. His team cars had left him behind and his bike was torn to shreds on impact. Rather than fold it up, he was able to borrow a kids bike with old school toe clips pedals to catch up to his team car, swap to a real bike and finish the race.
Whether you’re into cycling or not, this is the kind of drive you want to embody.
Full story here.
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"it’s kinda paradoxical, but I love reblogs and how easy it is for content to go viral – much in the same way and for the same reasons that I hate re-tweets. Maybe it’s the perceived higher value of of tumblr-postings when compared to tweets…"
- Link My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18)
