<p>Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A. : 1%, in Canada : 75%.</p>

<p>Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".</p>

<p>Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.</p>

<p>Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica. This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, i.e.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.</p>

<p>The Amazon rain forest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5aVI2zsFE">Black Star (Mos Def &amp; Talib Kweli) - Re: Definition</a></p>

<p>UPDATE: (by bookis) Dudes in the van, rasta hat, black shirt, and beanie, red shirt is stic.man and M-1 from Dead Prez. Thats neat.</p>

<p><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sbig_talib-kweli-hot-thingin-the-mood-ne_music">Talib Kweli - Hot Thing/In the Mood (NEW)</a></b></p>

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<p>with the help of <a href="http://blog.fallingsnow.net/">evan</a>, i've got <a href="http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/">mdb-tools</a> installed on the lappy. mdb-tools gives you a set of utils to do things with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access">Access databases</a>, in my case that means getting the schema and data exported to some nice sql to move it into <a href="http://mysql.com/">MySql</a> or <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">postgres</a>. The utils it installs are:</p>

<ul>
  <li>mdb-array</li>
  <li>mdb-export</li>
  <li>mdb-header</li>
  <li>mdb-hexdump</li>
  <li>mdb-import</li>
  <li>mdb-parsecsv</li>
  <li>mdb-prop</li>
  <li>mdb-schema</li>
  <li>mdb-sql</li>
  <li>mdb-tables</li>
  <li>mdb-ver</li>
</ul>

<p>mdb-ver gives me the version of the db in question: JET4.</p>

<p>mdb-hexdump works. i guess. but i don't really know what to do with a fuck ton of hex data.</p>

<p>all the rest just give me a "bus error".</p>

<p>i have no idea where to go from here or what the error really means for me. mdb-tools development seems to be pretty dead in the water. so i don't know what to do next. i would like to be able to get at that data, though.</p>

<p>help me, lazyweb. help me.</p>

<p>My mom sends me a bunch of email forwards. You know the kind: witty anecdotes, kids say the darndest things, pictures of people I don't really have any relationship with. Most of them don't do much for me. Occasionally, one slips through that is pretty cool. The latest one was one of the cool ones. It had a list of interesting geographic facts. I'll be reposting them in a series of micro-posts of the next few days.</p>