Lazy Sunday picture post: megamart edition

- shawn
[source: If you know where this came from let me know]

Good morning advertisers and small business owners

I want to take just a moment to clear up what seems to be a misunderstanding between you and I. You see, I pay a service to keep me off of junk mail lists (green dimes). It works fantastically and I completely recommend it. I mention this because it illustrates just how much I dislike [...]

Lazy Sunday picture post: decadent edition

- shawn
[source: amnesty international]

Ooh man, dig that crazy chick!

Who wears short shorts
We wear short shorts
They’re such short shorts
We like short shorts
Who wears short shorts
We wear short shorts.
 
Yea, anyways, on to the point! Today on the Alternative Consumer I read this article about pantyline productions and their good cause.

Combine your love for both the earth and its people, with this pair of hand-screened, sweatshop-free, [...]

A montage for the Israeli girls

Just some interesting tidbits to get you through recess today.

Israeli women with assault rifles buying some ice cream makes for a surreal image. It’s tough to wrap my mind around the differences in that society or to imagine growing up there.
Don’t forget to buy your Harry Potter books from a Canadian retailer such as [...]

Reuse your cell phone for fun and profit

Reuse is the most virtuous of the 11 R’s. Narrowly edging out Ridicule and Recycle. In the spirit of reusing and making some cash at the same time, this site may be a good resource. Cell For Cash buys your old cell phone and resells it to some other sucker. It’s pretty slick really when [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Calf stomach snacks: followup

Mars made a post on their website apologizing for the ingredient change that introduced young calf stomach lining into many of their chocolate bars. They are rolling the change back and most, but not all, of the products listed will be vegetarian again. Read here for the announcement, schedule, and which products will have what [...]

New Snickers! Now with young calf stomach lining! Yum!

If you’re a vegetarian, or just not a fan of eating the stomach lining of young calves when you snack, then you probably want to know this. Read this news item from the Vegetarian Society web site (I swear there is a society for everything) :
The Vegetarian Society is extremely disappointed to learn that Mars [...]