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Why do my Converse All-Star shoes have a small layer of felt on the bottom? Shoes with felt on the bottom can be taxed at 3% versus 35%!
Steck writes on Gazetc that the difference between importing a fuzzy shoe—like a house slipper—and a rubber one—like a sneaker—can be huge.
According to the inventors, “a classification may be based on the type of material that is present on 50% or more of the bottom surface.”
thanks, Smithsonian.
Also, when I’m on-task and run across things online that seem interesting but aren’t related to what I am doing, I send those things to Pocket. Every Saturday morning I sit and read all the things I’ve saved that week, and if those things end up blowing my mind or seem like material for future projects, I send them to Evernote to be saved in the appropriate research folder.
via I’m David McRaney, and This Is How I Work.
And also:
If I stay physically healthy: eat well, sleep well, exercise.
If I stay emotionally healthy: being around positive people who love me and who I love.
If I stay mentally healthy: come up with 10 ideas a day. Read a lot.
If I stay spiritually healthy: always think of the things I feel grateful for and the things that bring abundance into my life.
Kottke linked to an article that mentioned something I’ve been thinking about lately:
“But children need to have stand-and-stare time, time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or just observing the world around them.”
It is this sort of thing that stimulates the imagination, she said, while the screen “tends to short circuit that process and the development of creative capacity”.
Host: “Okay, your next word is meat.”Contestant: “Um, when two people run into each other.”Host: “Sorry. It’s the other one. Your next word is stare.”
via Homonyms, Homophones & Homographs | Grammar Underground with June Casagrande.
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