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June 8, 2006
Shelter for Sale or Burlington
Author.::.Trickster
Burlington town has been auctioned in Great Britain. The town is not ordinary, but underground. I can’t bring myself to call this territory just a shelter, as the square of the object is 96 hectares, and the roads alone cover approximately 100 km. The town disposes a kind of “infrastructure”, a railway station and even a public house called “The rose and the queen”. The complex was built in the 50-s of the last century in order to hide the prime-minister of Great Britain and nearly 4000 more officials in case the Soviet Union brought the nuclear attack into life. This underground town costs around 9 megabucks.
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April 19, 2006
What a wonderful mould
Author.::.Mazoo
According to the dictionary mould is “a furry growth of minute fungi occurring typically in moist warm conditions on organic matter”.
Mould differs. There exists bad mould. It can destroy even concrete, brick and plaster. It flies in the air and spoils products. It’s known that mould, appearing on our food without our interference, contains no penicillin and is of no use. You may poison yourself while eating food covered with mould. Mould may cause extreme exhaustion, headaches, skin- and lung-illnesses. While using good mould allergic people should remember that mould itself is often an allergen. Keep in mind that mould hates dryness and cleanness.
One can’t deny existence of a good mould. Gray mold rot, spoiling Russian strawberry, is used for preparation of wines in France and is called a “precious mould”. Marble or blue cheeses (Rockford, Stilton and Gorgonzola) are made with the help of the blue mould. Meanwhile white mould adds specific taste and aroma to Camembert and Brie cheeses.
But the aim of my writing is the following: we’ve unexpectedly grown a very beautiful orange mould on the loaf. It’s really special, differing greatly from very well known green mould! You may have a look at it on the photos below.
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December 20, 2005
Very thin point pens
Author.::.Phil
Mitsubishi Pencil Company produced ultra thin point pens. Line, drawn with such pen, is only 0.18 mm thick. I consider this news to be very important and precious as I'm nearly obsessed with thin and accurately writing devices. Those pens, which leave thick helium lines, and moreover, begin to daub my hands, cause my strong dislike of their creator.
According Cool Tool description, the pens should be used for making short lines (Japanese hieroglyphs), i.e. fused writing made by these pens might be rather inconvenient. Nevertheless, if you still hesitate about the birthday present for me, may consider such a pen to be one of the variants. (though you're a bit late )
A set of eight such pens costs $25.
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