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Simplistic View of "Stuff"

This is a nice, simplistic video on the life cycle of all the "stuff" we surround ourselves with. It has a definite Democratic slant but I like the points that it makes... [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZMTY4V7Ts]

Oxymoron

This comes from someone I work with who sent me the static IP address for a printer but also included the device's DHCP server. You network geeks will understand why this is an Oxymoron. As is often the case, my curiosity led me to Wikipedia for the oxymoron entry. Did you know that... "Oxymoron is a loanword from Greek oxy ("sharp") and moros ("dull"). Thus the word oxymoron is itself an oxymoron." [Wikipedia:oxymoron] Interesting.