2009 - The Year of Living Frugally, Part One. Coffee.

1.6 ounces of Starbucks French Roast makes 32 ounces of Starbucks coffee in a Bodum French Press coffee maker. At $11/pound, you can make 40 cups of really, really good coffee for less than 30 cents a cup.

NOLA.com: "The refrigerator graveyard"

Truly bizarre imagery. It has to be this way, of course.

Just wrap your refrigerator in duct tape and never, never ever open it again.

NASA DOCUMENTS POLAR ICE CAPS MELTING

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Cleaning Flood-damaged Homes


Guide to cleaning flood-damaged homes from LSU Cooperative Extension.

Residents of the Lower 9th Ward let in yesterday -- this is one of the worst-hit places in NO - interestingly some of the older houses on piers look like the external structure is salvageable, although I doubt the city will let them be salvaged.

A lot of older houses in New Orleans were built from flatboats that were floated down the river carrying farm produce, because it just wasn't economical to go back up the river in them. That style house, long and narrow, all wood, seems to have been the type that survived.