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Addicted2Books edited the settings of Moby-Duck Tuesday, December 27, 2011.

• Edited a setting: Po Sing plastic factoryPearl River Delta: China's most productive region - some sources refer to it as "the workshop of the world." Includes the town of Dongguan, with the Po Sing plastics factory, the alleged factory that produced FloteesFlotees.

Addicted2Books edited the settings of Moby-Duck Monday, December 26, 2011.

• Added a setting: Sitka, Alaska
• Added a setting: Gore Point: At the southernmost tip of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, just south of Anchorage.
• marked the description of Gore Point as not a spoiler
• Added a setting: South Point: The southernmost point of the Big Island of Hawaii and of the 50 United States.
• marked the description of South Point as not a spoiler
• Added a setting: Po Sing plastic factory: alleged factory that produced Flotees
• marked the description of Po Sing plastic factory as not a spoiler

Addicted2Books edited the memorable quotes of Moby-Duck Monday, December 26, 2011.

• Edited a quotation: “It wasn't that I wanted, like Cook and Amundsen and Vancouver and Bering and all those other dead explorers, to turn terra incognita into terra cognita, the world into a map. Quite the opposite. I wanted to turn a map into a world.”DonvovanDonovan Hohn
• Added a quotation: “Studies have shown that the primary colors, smiling faces, and cute animals in which Carle's book abounds - and of which the yellow rubber duck may be the consummate embodiment - have an almost narcotic power to induce feelings of happiness in the human brain.”Donovan Hohn (author)
• Added a quotation: “What misanthrope, what damp, drizzly November of a sourpuss, upon beholding a rubber duck afloat, does not feel a Crayola ray of sunshine brightening his gloomy heart?”Donovan Hohn (author)
• Added a quotation: “I was on a possibly quixotic quest to get my hands on a hollow plastic duck.”Donovan Hohn (author)

Addicted2Books edited the memorable quotes of Delivering Happiness Thursday, July 28, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “I can tell you that my mom has zero buzz, but when she says something, I listen.”Tony Hsieh

Addicted2Books edited the memorable quotes of Traffic Sunday, April 4, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “What traffic engineers do is try and simulate, through technology and signs and laws, a cooperative systems. They try to make us less like locusts and more like ants.”

Addicted2Books edited the first sentence of Traffic Sunday, April 4, 2010.

• (from the prologue) Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster?

Addicted2Books edited the memorable quotes of The Cyclist's Manifesto: The Case for Riding on Two Wheels Instead of Four Thursday, February 18, 2010.

• Edited a quotation: “"II don't like killing birds. I don't even like to think about people killing birds. So naturally, I regard the phrase kill two birds with one stone somewhat negatively. People say it as if it's a good thing. Hey, I eliminated two birds there, and used but one stone. What's with this bizarre hatred of birds? And are stones really that valuable?" (The author then makes his argument aboutvaluable? <stone = bicycling; birds = the "two birds" that bicycling is good for the environmentenvironmental and for your health.)health benefits of cycling>”

Addicted2Books edited the memorable quotes of The Cyclist's Manifesto: The Case for Riding on Two Wheels Instead of Four Thursday, February 18, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “"I don't like killing birds. I don't even like to think about people killing birds. So naturally, I regard the phrase kill two birds with one stone somewhat negatively. People say it as if it's a good thing. Hey, I eliminated two birds there, and used but one stone. What's with this bizarre hatred of birds? And are stones really that valuable?" (The author then makes his argument about the "two birds" that bicycling is good for the environment and for your health.)”