Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum." Bishop Desmond Tututhe lunchological congress- June 27, 2008 apologies to Joshua Schacter's The Futurological Congress lunch 2.0 - silicon valley employee recruitment wfree lunch as enticement lunchblogging - "kind of like pie blogging, from the Berkman lunch series lunchcasting - Lunchcasting at UPEI's New Media Institute (on blip.tv)...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Vacuum/~3/321526959/the-lunchologic.html Northern Michigan spiders (and other inverts): the Backyard Arthropod Project from Atlantic Mine, MI- June 27, 2008 Every once in a long while, you run across something so wonderful you have to share. I have been tracking hits to the Google search Michigan spiders, ever since an odd combination of page text about automated web browsing tools...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Vacuum/~3/321433520/northern-michig.html kilowatts per terabyte, or terabytes per kilowatt: a measure of storage energy efficiency- June 26, 2008 A measure of the efficiency of data storage; the equivalent would be WGB (watts per gigabyte). The range measured below is 0.4 TBKW (RAM) to 500 TBKW (Blu-ray disks), with a corresponding range in access speed and update times. Some...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Vacuum/~3/320563719/kilowatts-per-t.html Fire maps - Michigan, California, and global- June 24, 2008 Drought Severity Index by Region from NOAA for the week ending 21 June 2008 It's fire season (at least in the places where it isn't flood or landslide season) and the best way to be ready for a fire is...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Vacuum/~3/319220852/fire-maps---mic.html the flying proletarian Mayakovsky- June 24, 2008 via the V. V. Mayakovsky bio in the Encyclopedia of Soviet Authors: In 1925 Mayakovsky also made one of his few forays into the sphere of utopian science fiction with his poem Letaiushchi Proletarii ("The Flying Proletarian"). As described by...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Vacuum/~3/319009812/the-flying-prol.html mechanical blueberry harvesters- June 24, 2008 If you're serious about harvesting blueberries (as opposed to just picking them), you mechanize the operation. Here's an example of a blueberry harvester from Nova Scotia Doug Bragg Enterprises Ltd. Mechanical Blueberry Harvester consists of a reel-type picking head. The...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Vacuum/~3/318609382/mechanical-blue.html vacuum microwave dried blueberries, a quality report- June 24, 2008 Whenever I come across some topic related to both blueberries and the title of this blog (vacuum), I am compelled to post it. In this case, we have "vacuum microwave drying" or VMD, a food preservation technique using a vacuum...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Vacuum/~3/318541908/vacuum-microwav.html "The Bridge at Mackinac", David Steinman- June 23, 2008 Aerial view of the roadway deck work, 1957. Photo from Mackinac Bridge Authority. Digital materials in the Upper Peninsula Digitization Center collections are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Vacuum/~3/317849712/the-bridge-at-m.html What is the Border to Border Trail Flickr- June 22, 2008 Edward Vielmetti posted a photo: A capture of the trail map produced by Washtenaw County Parks and Rec. Full PDF here: www.ewashtenaw.orggovernmentdepartmentsparks_recreatio...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Vacuum/~3/317203867/ Blackberry-picking (Seamus Heaney)- June 21, 2008 Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Vacuum/~3/317053614/blackberry-pick.html |