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http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0804-netflixaug04,0,6424990.story

The Netflix warehouse in Carol Stream does not appear on any map. Your odds of finding it are slightly better than your odds of stumbling upon a rare insect in a field of weeds.

One could drive to Carol Stream, stop in a random office park, climb from one's car and scream, "Reveal thyself, Netflix!" This is not advisable. But the temptation remains.

If you subscribe to the DVD-rental service, the Netflix warehouse, which you know must exist somewhere; which a P.O. Box on every Netflix envelope suggests does exist; which processes your Netflix queue with alarming efficiency; which you bet will be as magical as you imagined if you ever stumble on it, overrun with dancing Oompa Loompas in matching jumpsuits of Netflix red, is one of those mythical New Economy temples.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/science/earth/30degrees.html

SAN FRANCISCO -- Returning to their ranch-style house in Sacramento after a long summer workday, Jon and Kim Waldrep were routinely met by a wall of heat.

"We'd come home in the summer, and the house would be 115 degrees, stifling," said Mr. Waldrep, a regional manager for a national company.

He or his wife would race to the thermostat and turn on the air-conditioning as their four small children, just picked up from day care, awaited relief.

All that changed last month. "Now we come home on days when it's over 100 degrees outside, and the house is at 80 degrees," Mr. Waldrep said.

Their solution was a new roof: a shiny plasticized white covering that experts say is not only an energy saver but also a way to help cool the planet...

A Charlie Brown Ad Agency

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Daily Links - 12/10/2008

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{ A Wall Street Job Can't Match a Calling in Life} what's your calling? do you! :
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aBabxZ9WD2cE

Daily Links - 12/9/2008

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{ College Grad Thinks It's Pretty Ridiculous You Haven't Hired Her Yet } college is overrated although C.R.E.A.M. get the money! : http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/college-grad-thinks-its-pretty-ridiculous-you-havent-employed-her-yet