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Gas Prices in Calgary and Portland

I just noticed this shocking gas chart for the average price of gas in my hometown of Calgary:

That’s really an unbelievable move in 12 months.
Even Portland’s prices are showing that dramatic of a drop:

I wonder how low it can go?

on twitter | D’Arcy Norman dot net

on twitter | D’Arcy Norman dot net
A brave man just deletes his Twitter account.. I often wonder how many great blog posts and discussions we’ve missed since the rise of Twitter. Worth clicking through and reading in it’s entirety.

FriendDA

FriendDA
(Via Rands In Repose.)
A must read if you have great ideas and you want to share them with friends…

Slow-growing trees

Slow-growing trees
(Via Manton Reece.)
If you procrastinate forever, just because you won’t see results anytime soon, you’ll find yourself looking back 10 years later and wishing if only I had just planted that tree / started that new software project, it would have been done by now.
In other words, don’t let the weight of potential work [...]

Funds are being limited to higher education institutions..

And you wonder how the idiots in congress and all the idiots in America who don’t understand how modern finances work could screw things up? Go read this:
Bank Limits Fund Access by Colleges, Inciting Fears
In a move suggesting how the credit crisis could disrupt American higher education, Wachovia Bank has limited the access of nearly [...]