Archive for April, 2011

How was UPS Founded?

Today I found out UPS was started by two teenagers with one bicycle and $100 borrowed from a friend.

The date was August 28, 1907 and the two kids were 18 year old Claude Ryan and 19 year old Jim Casey.  The two had one bike between them and $100 borrowed from a friend to found the "American Messenger Company" in Seattle, Washington.  The company was initially run in a hotel basement at Second Avenue and Main Street in Seattle.

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Posted: April 25th, 2011
at 11:55am by mnp


Categories: business,fo' real?

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Yogurt Cups Made of Plants?

Is this really happening?

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Posted: April 25th, 2011
at 11:53am by mnp


Categories: green,design

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The Atomic Garden

Eradicating famine? My ninja, please.

After WWII, there was a concerted effort to find ‘peaceful’ uses for atomic energy. One of the ideas was to bombard plants with radiation and produce lots of mutations, some of which, it was hoped, would lead to plants that bore more heavily or were disease or cold-resistant or just had unusual colors. (Source)

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Posted: April 25th, 2011
at 11:39am by mnp


Categories: myninjaplease,too good to be true,green,science,ethics

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ReWalk

After 20 years in a wheelchair…

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Posted: April 25th, 2011
at 7:58am by mnp


Categories: design,fo' real?

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The Limits of the Cloud

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A lot of the pundits pontificating about the cloudpocalypse are blaming application developers for not building redundancy into their apps. I’m sure in some cases, that is true, but the reason this became such a disaster was precisely because app developers built in redundancy.  The cloud failed because everyone expected the cloud to fail. (Source)

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Posted: April 24th, 2011
at 7:13pm by mnp


Categories: computers,web,development

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The Art of Sport

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Posted: April 24th, 2011
at 4:31pm by mnp


Categories: games

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The Cookie and Good Governance

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Posted: April 24th, 2011
at 4:10pm by mnp


Categories: business,grub

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Personal Flying Machine

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Posted: April 24th, 2011
at 1:50pm by mnp


Categories: whips

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My Ninja, Please! 4.24.11 : Mini Van Highway

Wicked vocoder. Nuff respect.


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Posted: April 24th, 2011
at 12:14pm by mnp


Categories: myninjaplease,music

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