$30 A Month For Food?

A blogger from Lansing Michigan decided to spend only $30 on food for the month of November, just to see what it was like being poor. It's an interesting read.
"For the month of November, I'm only spending $30 on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person (salt taken from restaurants, sauce packets from Taco Bell, free coffee from an office). Buying in advance is fine, but at the end of the month, it all has to add up to $30 or less."

He survived, and lost 18 lbs. Click here to read his blog.

original link found here.

State to allow patients to grow own pot

Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes.

It’s a decision that has made a lot of state law enforcement officials upset.

The legislature passed the medical marijuana bill into law earlier this year after a decade of lawmakers rejecting the idea. The law allows people suffering from AIDS, cancer, glaucoma and epilepsy to use marijuana for pain relief.

Now, just days before the law takes affect, the New Mexico Department of Health announces it will allow patients to grow their own marijuana because the state still hasn’t figured out how it is supposed to grow and distribute pot.

“This is about providing access now, and we are going to work on the next step,” said Health Department spokeswoman Deborah Busemeyer.

The move has stunned law enforcement agencies statewide who say it flies in the face of what was agreed upon in the legislative session.

“It caught me off guard,” said Captain Gary Johnson of the New Mexico State Police. “I mean, I thought this was going to be very strict in the way this was going to be handled.”

“I really can not believe the state has decided to do this,” said Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano. “Personally, I do support medical marijuana with strict regulation, but the biggest problem with this new change is that it pretty much takes a lot of the regulations away.”

The state has asked the Attorney General’s Office for guidelines on how to proceed since federal law still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug.

“It may stop local law enforcement from knocking on somebody’s door who’s growing marijuana,” said Captain Johnson. “But certainly, I don’t believe it will stop the DEA or federal agents from doing the same.”

If the feds do come knocking, neither the Health Department, police or sheriff’s office say they can do anything to stop them from making arrests for marijuana possession.

Under the new rule, patients will only be allowed to have four mature marijuana plants and three seedlings. Until the Health Department comes up with its distribution plan, patients will have to buy pot on their own wherever they can find it.

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Logitech MX Revolution Rechargeable Laser Mouse

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If you can judge a historical period by the importance of its revolutions, we’re in trouble. Used to be that “revolution” was a word reserved for massive, sweeping changes in economic life (the Agricultural Revolution), or in political and social organization (the American Revolution), or in scientific understanding (the Copernican Revolution). Then along came the marketing industry – the marketing revolution, you might say – to devalue the word by attaching it to any hunk of crap that they wanted to seem “edgy”. The 18th century had the French Revolution; we have the Dance Dance Revolution.

One prime example of revolution deflation is the Logitech MX Revolution Rechargeable Laser Mouse. It won’t change the way you conceive of the cosmos, or put the workers in control of the means of production. All it’ll do is make your mousing experience smoother and easier, with a frictionless alloy scroll wheel, a dedicated search button, a thumb wheel, a plug-and-play USB wireless transmitter, and all kinds of programmable and adjustable options. You won’t even need to keep feeding it double-As on accounta it runs off a rechargeable Li-Ion battery.

Is the Logitech MX Revolution Rechargeable Laser Mouse a pretty cool mouse? Yes. Revolutionary? No. But at least you won’t have to worry about it rising up and sending you to the guillotine.

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The Rasterbator!

It's not as dirty as it sounds, in fact it's not dirty at all.
The rasterbator is actually a free internet tool/downloadable program used for printing huge tiled images. You can make some really awesome stuff with it. Here are a few examples I found on the rasterbators website.















so check out their website at http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/