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A couple of links to services that will help you stop some junk mail:

• NFN – Native Forest Network’s Guide to Stop Junk Mail
  To help reduce junk mail, cut down waste, and save some trees to boot, follow the 5 easy steps below.(tags: activism junkmail environment)
• DirectMail.com’s Mail Preference Registry – Get rid of junk mail
  The DirectMail.com National Do Not Mail List – (Now Free!)The key to stopping all that unwanted advertising mail you receive at home is getting your name off the mailing lists.(tags: junkmail list environment green)

This site has a 3-d representation of where the calories are in your grocery store:

Infoporn: Ground Zero of the Obesity Epidemic? The Center of Your Grocery Store

• Want to find something healthy in the grocery store? Stick to the periphery: Most chain supermarkets arrange produce, dairy, and meat along the perimeter of the store, leaving the more processed foods and impulse buys in the middle. (tags: graphic health shopping food nutrition)

NASA Internships:

• NASA – Higher Education – Students and Post Doctoral Higher Education – Students and Post Doctoral (tags: nasa internships)

A Place to Bury Strangers links:

• Brooklyn Rocks With Yeasayer, MGMT, Dirty Projectors, Others – News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News
  “I think people are just trying to do their own thing and make it unique,” said frontman Oliver Ackermann of garage/shoegaze outfit A Place to Bury Strangers. (tags: aptbs)
• Reverb: Finding A Place To Bury Strangers (Seattle Weekly)
  Nothing beats hearing a song that totally captures the spirit of the moment. Last night, while tuned into KEXP just after 1 a.m., silvery guitar noise, frantic industrial drum machines and terribly dark bass lines beat down on me like the stormy weather (tags: aptbs)
• Zeroskilz – Bad Week… Work Weekend
  “I’ve been turning to A Place to Bury Strangers more and more often. I’ve grown to really like this band, and I think they are great to listen to while working. They give me something to channel my frustrations into while not being overly distracting.”(tags: aptbs)
• brooklynvegan: Yeasayer, Todd P, Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, Muggabears on MTV News + a special Place To Bury Strangers show
  A Place to Bury Strangers will play live at Death by Audio on Wednesday January 16 at 11 PM with the Muggabears and Famous Amos(tags: aptbs)
• Subterranean Blog » Brooklyn: The New Sound
  MTV News turns in a piece on a bunch bands with dudes in them who are clearly our future slacker ex-boyfriends. … At any rate, we’re very into Brooklyn’s MGMT…jury’s still out on Yeasayer and A Place to Bury Strangers. (tags: aptbs)

Schneier on Security: Airport Behavioral Profiling Leads to an Arrest
‘I’m generally a fan of behavioral profiling. While it sounds weird and creepy and has been likened to Orwell’s “facecrime”, there’s no doubt that — when done properly — it works at catching common criminals:’  (tags: airport behavioral profilling security schneier)

Montgomery County, VA: Planning: Board of Zoning Appeals: By-Laws

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City of Richmond Board of Zoning Appeals bylaws (tags: bza)

South Boston Planning Office- Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals (tags: bza)

Washington County, VA: (tags: bza)

The most ignored programming story of 2007 | Programming and Development | TechRepublic.com
‘Most programmers are writing applications that perform “data processing” as opposed to applications that perform “computations.” The difference is quite important.’  (tags: programming)

Programming industry forecast for 2008: Get ready for a bumpy ride | Programming and Development | TechRepublic.com
“We are in the middle of intense change within the programming industry even though most of us can’t see or participate in it. We will just be stuck cleaning up the aftermath five – fifteen years down the road.” (tags: programming forecast)

sndndvsn: The Top Albums of 2007: #40 – 36
“The best new release this year you HAVEN’T heard, and the one most likely to blow your head off.” (tags: aptbs)

Varsity.co.nz – Best And Worst Of 2007: What The Critics Liked
“With such cheery titles as To Fix The Gash In Your Head and She Dies, A Place To Bury Strangers lay down a distortion filled set of tracks that runs from raw riffy rock (Breathe) to epic, aching waves of sound (The Falling Sun).”  (tags: aptbs)

Translated version of http://radiofreehengelo.blogspot.com/2008/01/place-to-bury-strangers.html
“Erg leuk om te zien en te horen. Very fun to see and hear. ” (tags: aptbs)

The Fertile Crescent: The 20 Best Albums of 2007 – A Place to Bury Strangers: “A Place to Bury Strangers”
‘In the typical parlance of our time it is easy to describe APTBS’s music as “shoegaze”, since much of it owes a great debt to the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, but such an arbitrary label would miss the entire picture.’ (tags: aptbs)