"Flatirons Everywhere!"
"Gramatically Incorrect"
"Arboretum Walkabout"
"Diners Club"
"A Googie View"
I think it's cool that Wal-Mart is now in the music download business (only 88 cents per song!).
Black and white M&M's
Mimi's Cafe
SpamBayes for Outlook Express via Python and POP3 - Jason Brome
Not sure if I've mentioned this before or not, but P.T. Cruisers look like stink bugs (or dung beetles).
I wonder if anyone knows what the "A. L. [year]" stand for on building cornerstones. It's always listed below the "A. D. [year]", which - of course - stands for Anno Domini (the year of our Lord), and cooresponds with the year the building was finished/dedicated, which obviously has a Judeo-Christian reference to the birth of Jesus Christ and cooresponds with the Gregorian calendaring system. The "A. L.", however, is always exactly 4,000 years earlier. What happened in 4000 B.C. that a builders association or a general contractor would acknowledge - the Creation? Here's an example, this one from a stone plaque on the front of the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Reno:
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