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Video link here. Be sure to check out the Muppet Studio's user page for some other good stuff.

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Is there anyone on here that has type 1 diabetes that has an endocrinologist they like?
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Hey all,

So I have a whole bunch of podcasts that are meditation, relaxation music, "power nap" tunes, etc. All things that I don't want to delete. Some of the podcasts don't exist anymore, so I don't need to 'subscribe' to any new ones.

Is there any way to get these files out of the podcast library and into the music or audiobook library?

Is there any way to organize podcasts by folder, so I can put all the similar ones together? (I googled this one and it looks like 'no'.)

Thanks for any tips/advice!
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As posted on [info]mbta yesterday, the MBTA have got together with NextBus to start a trial run of an online feed that provides the current location and estimated arrival times of their buses. Only five routes are represented at the moment - the 39, 111, 114, 116 and 117 - but the feed is freely available, so developers can tap into it and use the data to create pages that can make a decent guess at telling you when your bus is going to arrive.

There's a page that went up last week that plots the current location of buses by route on a Google map, written by Joe Shaw. I also threw a next bus ETA predictor together last night (and then had dreadful nightmares about buses) which should work on IE and Firefox at least - you can search for nearby buses by route and the stop where you're waiting. If anyone here uses these routes and can say whether the pages are at all accurate, and if they work from mobile devices like the iPhone, that would really be appreciated - I can't test them myself yet because the buses for the trial run are nowhere near me.

Also, if you want to see the service expanded to other routes, you could email the MBTA through their contact page and let them know that there's demand for this kind of service - I contacted them myself yesterday in the hope that encouragement might speed the process up a bit. You never know, it might help.

The XML feed and instructions for accessing it can be found at http://www.eot.state.ma.us/developers/realtime/ .
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Did anyone else buy it today? Do you have plans to buy it and read it? A friend gave the book to me for my birthday, and it was delivered this morning. I have not had the opportunity to look at the book in detail, but so far I'm impressed with the lovely reproductions of note cards.

It must have been very difficult for Dmitri to decide to publish his father's last work, and it goes against the wishes of VN himself. However, I am grateful to have this example of his writing method.

The book is beautiful, too. The dust jacket on the hardcover version features text that fades from left to right. The cover under the dust jacket is of graph paper with handwritten notes. And the index cards are featured with scans of front and back, as well as transcriptions of what is on each card.

So, tell me: are you purchasing, or do you plan to check out from a library at some point in the future, "The Original of Laura"? Are you abstaining from reading it due to moral objections? Are you curious?
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I'm aware that this event is not taking place in Boston, but I live here so I'm posting it here.

I purchased two General Admission tickets to the Brand New/Manchester Orchestra show at Lupo's on 12/03 and can't go. I'm selling them for $25 a pop. Basically saving you the $5+ in fees per ticket.

They're e-tickets (print at home) so, it's just a matter of me either A. printing them out for you, or B. emailing them to you after payment is received.

I really hope someone wants these, would be bummed if they went to waste.

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Sorry folks, a friend took them off my hands!

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Yes, yet another hair salon post! Snark away.

I need to rush out quickly while the babysitter is watching my sprogs and get my hair hacked into shape by a decent stylist. I live in Brookline, so I need somewhere local. And reasonably priced ($40 or less), but not Supercuts or the like. Any ideas, b0st0n?

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Truckers Delight is not safe for work.



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This is a complete and utter disaster. When we last left off at the Permian period, we had a fabulous rainbow Dimetrodon proudly extolling the virtues of prehistoric toothpaste on one's two measures of teeth and being the undisputed queen of the era. If you'll remember, I didn't have the heart to mention in Dimetrodon's post what was bound to happen to him and everyone else.

We've now left the Paleozoic era and are beginning a new age. We cheerfully refer to the Mesozoic era as the Age of the Dinosaurs, but it got off to a rocky start. Or you could say it started with a bang. Or with a bang and with catastrophic global warming, flood basalt events, impact events, methane hydrate gasifaction, major anoxic events and the whole world smelling like rotten eggs until all the plants and animals couldn't take it anymore and dropped dead. The ones hit by the impact event were the lucky ones.

The beginning of the Triassic period of the Mesozoic era was hell on earth. Everyone died. Remember the pretty Eurypterid from the Ordovician period? DEAD. How about her pretty sister Megan, the giant dragonfly from the Carboniferous period? Yeah, she's DEAD, too. Dinichthys, the the placoderm terror fish with the enormous jaws? You'd better believe it- SO DEAD. But not tiktaalik, right? The recipient of the Paleozoic Medal of Honor for being a pioneer for tetrapods and taking some of the world's first painful breaths of oxygen and laboriously crawling onto the muddy banks on its fin-like proto-arms? Not tiktaalik! But oh yes, tiktaalik too, is DEAD. So is Dimetrodon. So is everybody. Even the trilobites, who had been plugging along since the Cambrian period, finally died off for good at the onset of the Triassic period. They had been on the earth for 291 million years before the Triassic period hit the earth and they all became DEAD, too.

The Permian-Triassic extinction event was the worst thing that's ever happened to this planet. Even worse than the impact humans have caused with their human-like conquests, much worse than the giant asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, even worse than Woodstock '99.

The Great Dying killed off 90% of all species on earth, with 70% of all terrestrial vertebrates dying off and 96% of all marine being wiped out. All DEAD. By contrast, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event killed off only 60% of life on earth. The Great Dying was especially unique because this was the only known mass extinction of insects. Really, you always think those guys can live through anything, but the end of the Permian proved to be too much even for them.

There's some speculation on what exactly caused such an apocalypse, but it was probably a combination of factors and some chain reactions. First, there could have been one or more impact events- you know, asteroids from outer space striking the earth. There are several impact craters that have been proposed as possible causes of the Permian-Triassic extinction event, although some people think that if such an asteroid struck the water 251 million years ago, there wouldn't be any evidence of it today because the earth's crust on the ocean floor keeps changing due to shifting tectonic plates and so none of the ocean floor is really older than 200 million years.

Erupting volcanoes could have played a part, too- in addition to giant volcanic clouds blocking out the sun and trapping in greenhouses gases, the rising temperature could have caused a melting of methane hydrate on the ocean floor. Methane hydrate, or methane ice, is like frozen methane trapped in water ice crystals. A vast release of methane would cause even worse global warming, as Wikipedia tells me that "a methane burp could have released 10,000 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent - twice as much as in all the fossil fuels on Earth."

And as the earth was eructating, she may have also simultaneously been experiencing her worse case of plant-blackening flatulence. They call it "hydrogen sulfide emissions", but I call it farting. A severe anoxic event at the end of the Permian may have caused the anaerobic bacteria in the ocean- the ones that metabolize sulfate by reducing it to sulfide- to flourish and dominate the world. This is the same bacteria that are responsible for human farts smelling offensive, and for my dog Buddy's farts clearing the room and requiring Jon and me to de-jinx the room with Oro y Plata Fortune Aerosol spray before we can re-enter. Now imagine that the entire earth smelled like a big black dog with a gas problem because of thermal vents erupting with ocean-floor hydrogen sulfide in huge volumes all over the planet.

What a shitty time to be alive, huh? No wonder everyone died.

Still...did everyone actually die? Who made it through this alive? If not even a significant number of insect species were able to survive this period, who in this unholy hell could have pulled through? Who was among that supernatural 10% of all life forms that was impervious to God's worst hissyfit of all time?

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