clipped from www.fuelfrog.com Track Your Gas Mileage with FuelFrog Fill up your tank. Let us know. Watch trends. Track your gas mileage by letting us know the miles you traveled on your last tank, the price you paid, and how many gallons you added to your car. FuelFrog will compile and trend information about your gas mileage, the amount you spend, and more! In the near future, you'll be able to compare your vehicle to others and see how you stack up. Use Twitter (If you want) FuelFrog loves Twitter, and you should too. We love Twitter so much, in fact, that we've decided to integrate with them. It is easy to use Twitter to tell FuelFrog about your fuel usage. Follow FuelFrog As we said, we love Twitter. We try to keep our Twitter feed as up-to-date as possible, so that you'll always know what's going on around FuelFrog.

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Show us your mother.

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Happy Mom's Day to all the moms out there!

Honestly, they should have just combine the QoTD & The VoxHunt because they belong together!

Anyway, here is a picture of my mom on her wedding day in the Philippines. Cavite to be exact. My mom is one of the hardest working moms out there. I'm sure everyone says that about their mothers but she really did work hard. She had 4 kids and held down a full-time job plus multiple sales jobs in the evening. My dad was usually out to sea because he was in the Navy & worked on the carriers so she had 4 little kids running around while she tried to keep it all together.

She used to pick us up after school and take us with her on her sales jobs because she could not afford a babysitter. This was when we were in pre-school and up to 4th grade. I am sure people out there may be shocked but seriously, what the hell else was she supposed to do? She just immigrated her and none of her family lived here so she was pretty much alone with 4 kids.

My mom would pull a bit of a scared-straight line with us. It worked. We're all still here. Anyway, she would scare the crap out of us so that we would behave while she went to these houses to do her sales pitch. One of her stories was that if the police saw us, we were supposed to duck out of sight or else they would take us away. Hello, how freaky is that story to a couple of elementary school kids?!? We had a Red Ford Pinto Stationwagon that she added curtains to so that we were semi-concealed. Some one was always the lookout and the second that person spotted a "cop" we would scurry into hiding position, which was basically lying down in the back with blankets and pillows over us until the lights disappeared. I don't even know if those were really cop cars, I think, we just panicked any time headlights came around the corner.

So, there you have it, a nice mom's day story for you.

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Links I like:
Charles Schulz Peanuts Tribute - this is why train stations rock.
The Simpsons every couch gag - just because...
Build your own roller skates from CRAFT - i really need a mikita power drill
This week in Congress - so I know what's up with the CA delegates/representatives/what have you
Less Talking, More Plumbing from IllDoctrine - yes, send this to the Demo candidates!
The Hillary Deathwatch from Slate - it's a widget! What the? Yeah, I was going to add it but I had second thoughts. It's a bit extreme for me. I know, I'm sensitive.

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clipped from listoftheday.blogspot.com Photobombers Of The Day Photobombers = people who hilariously ruin your nice little picture. A superb idea from Jocelyn; all photos from Facebook. WTF? Is that a ghost?

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clipped from pinewooddesign.co.uk The Cans Festival - Banksy street exhibition Banksy had noticed an abandoned access road. Eurostar, which no longer owns the tunnel, helped to put his brainwave into action

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I am digging this site! Thanks tiffanybbrown. I love these sounds reminds me of the Cocktail Escapades show I did with Jason K. & Chi-Yu. Delectable.

clipped from www.tittyshakers.com Untouchables "CRAWLIN' (THE CRAWL)" Rello Pure unadulterated sleaze - the horns on this just ooze with the promise of sin. Highly sought after for its Beatnik themed flip side which has made it onto several compilations over the years, here at tittyshakers.com it's the lesser known flip side which is the highly coveted side for its outrageously dirty horns and slinky melody. Recorded some time around 1960, if anyone should ask you "what's a tittyshaker?" then this could be the 45 you play them. At the moment this is my number one tittyshaker 45 of all time.

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Bike to Work Week is coming May 12 - 16. If you can't do it for the week, Bike To Work Day is May 15.

Check out the Metro site for some cool links like Pledge forms, events, free ride, there are even pit stops!

http://www.metro.net/projects_studies/bikeway_planning/biketowork/default.htm

And on Sunday, June 8 will be the LA River Ride. You have to register by May 15 so check that out too.

http://www.la-bike.org/events/los_angeles_river_ride.html

I'll be biking to work that day so I'll be there in spirit.

Happy Biking!

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clipped from www.sfgate.com 10 ways to blow your tax rebate Gas, video games, meditation, booze. What, you were planning on paying bills? As if Do you see? Your "economic stimulus" check is meaningless, an empty gesture, a trifling crumb of recompense after robbing you blind via insane gas prices, infrastructure meltdowns, massive failed wars that aren't really wars. Thanks for the bogus check, Dubya, now where can I buy a sliver of our missing national dignity? Oh, that's right. So then. Here are your bloody nickels, America. Think of it as a "recession whippit," because trust me, its quickie high won't last long. What will you do with it? Pay off the porn bill? Hit the Vegas strip? Stock up on water and freeze-dried meats and a nice Bowie knife in preparation for the apocalypse? Not bad, not bad. Of course, you could also spend it on:

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Our own Coachella

I just got an email from my friend, Christina, about the new Grateful Dead Archive at UCSC.

I never thought it could get any hippier. Don't get me wrong, I love that frickin' school. I love being a banana slug. I love all of my friends that I have kept in touch with and the new people I still meet. UCSC grads always seem to be drawn to each for some reason.

I am glad to read that they renovated good ole McHenry Library but a dedicated room to the Grateful Dead. Wow. Just. Wow.

Here's a new shirt you can get at the UCSC store:

GDshirt

Um...right.

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clipped from www.salon.com Drop that salmon! With the days of indiscriminate fish consumption long gone, food writer Taras Grescoe explains how to eat seafood ethically. (Hint: Order mussels; skip shrimp.) By Nicole Pasulka How did you first start caring about sustainable seafood? You think food writers have an ethical responsibility to discuss sustainability? What about the rest of us? Why should we bother learning about our seafood?

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