101 uses for an empty cereal box?

The other day it became more difficult to ignore the amount of waste generated from one delicious box of cereal. In my little mind I can keep eating cereal if I can somehow decrease the amount of waste. So I thought we could brainstorm up a list of ideas. Some of them will be dumb, [...]

A montage for the kids

Nothing is coming to mind as worth writing a post about, but there are several interesting little things floating around. So I thought instead of no update I would toss together these links.

Gavin Newsom sets an example: Newsom has issued an executive order banning San Francisco city departments from buying bottled water, even for water [...]

You know damn well that you have $25 to spare!

If you’re like me you don’t believe in free handouts. I don’t think giving someone free money or food solves anything. It’s that whole cliche, “you can give a man a fish and he eats for a day, or you can teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime.” So I much prefer [...]

How I spent my hard earned tax dollars. (volume 2)

I swear I am not picking on the military this week, but how could I resist this?
A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
You know [...]

Interesting times

To quote a curse I learned from Terry Pratchett, “May you live in interesting times.” This morning’s post is a quick 3 pack of interesting stuff, be they good, bad, or ugly.

Google blog gives a real clear opinion and description of the entire Net Neutrality kerfuffle. I am safely assuming you use the internet, so [...]

5 reasons why bottled water hates you.

Lighter Footstep has a good article on the 5 reasons why you shouldn’t buy bottled water. Odds are you have heard them before or can imagine what they are, but for kicks here is the abridged version.

Money. You pay 2 cents per ounce for gasoline, less than 1 cent per ounce for tap water, and [...]

A must see 9 minute video.

Regardless of your opinions on the global climate crisis warmtacular jamboree, you really should take 9 minutes and watch this video. Then share it with someone. You’ll see why by the end.

If you hate Youtube or want a possibly higher quality version, try break.com: http://www.break.com/index/tough-to-argue.html
- shawn

Top five brain foods (aka eat stuff to get less dumb)

To break my negative posting streak, here is a list of the alleged top 5 health foods for your brain. At least according to brainready.com authors. Hit the link at the bottom for the full spiel on each item.

Wild Salmon. The likelihood of my ever eating salmon is right up there with the chances of [...]

How I spent my hard earned tax dollars. (volume 1)

The US Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels. These weapons of mass destruction virtually [...]

$1000 fine triggered by bumper sticker: “Powered by 100% vegetable oil”

In the world’s best example of bumper sticker regret, Bob Teixeira was fined $1000 for advertising his vegetable oil fuel usage. Add to that additional fines and then a fee to make himself legit the bumper sticker could end up costing him $4500.
The premise being that he is avoiding North Carolina state fuel taxes. By [...]