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A few quick links

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:04:28 GMT

One on tubeless toilet paper

One on sending leftover Halloween candy to the troops. Of course, it seems odd to Support Our Troops by giving them cavities, but I suppose they get free dental, don't they?

And finally - what percentage of people are making more than $250k a year?

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Gosh what a surprise.

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:00:14 GMT

Touch screens on phones have more germs per square inch than toilets.

Well, no duh. YOU DON'T BREATHE ONTO TOILETS.

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Some random articles and links....

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:22:49 GMT

A video of a cute kid, with subtitles!

Pakistani delegation mistaken for terrorists.

The classic post on renaming the bathrooms...
And a very long one on more conventional ways of distinguishing between two sets of public toilets.

Worry about bedbugs in flea markets

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On giving antipsychotics to small children.

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Beware the articles of (belated) March.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:34:34 GMT

An editorial on obesity and discrimination

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One about 4000 year old Chinese mummies

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On saving the water and sewage systems of the US

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On Foursquare and similar services

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On one school's structured recess using Playworks

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One of those mathy links

An alternet piece on birth control

Aaaaaand "Man On Internet Almost Falls Into World Of DIY Mustard Enthusiasts

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A quick article about No-Mix toilets

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:22:03 GMT

http://www.alternet.org/water/146016/smart_toilets_a_revolution_may_be_coming_to_your_bathroom

But how do they work?

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And here's another fascinating article about toilets!

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:02:55 GMT

I may have to go read up more about sanitation, I seem to keep finding articles on toilets to read as it is.

Speaking of which, we have a visitor cat. He's the cuddliest thing EVAH, and he's free to a good home so long as you can get him from here or Manhattan to where you are. I posted about this in the newyorkers comm, and got one person saying maybe, but if that falls through....

He's very sweet, litter-trained (see? It's relevant to toilets!), and snuggly. An unneutered male, probably about a year old. Somebody cut off (and tied into knots!) his whiskers, poor thing. Jenn is going "Probably some kid who doesn't know better", but that kid's GONNA know better if I find out about it. The kitty is very snuggly and seems to crave attention, but then, he just came from the mean streets of Staten Island. I suspect he'd adapt well to kids and/or other pets (the nieces aren't here right now so we can't try this out), but I can't prove that, of course.

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Three related links (I took them all from each other) on toilets

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:15:05 GMT

And bidets!

Link one
Link two
Link three - this one talks about sewers

And a picture of what purports to be a Japanese toilet. Clever design, you don't have to redo all your plumbing to reuse that graywater.

Interestingly, there's a lot of talk there about saving toilet paper, and how even with a bidet you still need toilet paper, and nobody seems to realize that everybody on Etsy makes cloth toilet wipes. They're pretty and fluffy, what more can you ask for?

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