Author: DXO
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Husband Without the Hassle
Husband Without the Hassle Originally uploaded by juggernautco. I always like seeing goofball names for businesses. They always seem vestigal to me, harking back to a less cynical, pre-ironic economic time period. Here’s a handyman/ maintenance business in the western suburbs of Chicago called "Husband Without the Hassle"
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The Difference Makers
One of the fundamental things I’m interested in with my /obits/ obsessions is what type of contributions to the world are worthy of publishing the day after you die? One type is the improvement. It’s one thing to be Charles Richter and come up with the Richter Scale. It’s another to improve such things incrementally,…
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New Website: housingfroth.com
I started this site rigjt
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Raleigh, North Carolina: Architecture of Fayetteville Street
I traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina quite a bit for business last year. Here’s an annotated look at some of the downtown architecture in Raleigh. Here’s a pretty detailed take on the area in question. And here’s a crazy-detailed architectural survey of Raleigh from 1992.
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Shiites Offer to Give Sunnis Larger Role on Broader Panel Writing a Constitution – New York Times
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 25 – Under American pressure to draw Sunni Arabs into the drafting of Iraq’s constitution, the Shiite religious parties that dominate the transitional government agreed Wednesday to re-establish a constitutional commission with as many as 15 of the 101 seats reserved for Sunni Arabs. Sheik Humam Hammoudi, chairman of the committee drawing…