Air Canada shaves fuel costs by eliminating life-jackets
Good thing I fly internationally with Air Canada!
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Could $100 oil turn dumps into plastic mines? | Environment | Reuters
Sparked by surging oil, a dramatic rise in the value of old plastic is encouraging waste companies across the world to dig for buried riches in rotting rubbish dumps.
In Britain alone, experts say landfill sites could offer up an estimated 200 million tonnes of old plastic — worth up to 60 billion pounds at current prices — to be recovered and recycled, or converted to liquid fuel.
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Extreme X-Rays: Photographer Nick Veasey Takes You Inside … Everything
pretty pictures of things you don't see
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Ever Notice?: Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design: Design
…the importance of being aware and the advantages of tapping into your “super-noticing pow...
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25 needles and countingFrom: miserychick.net
Post Date: 2007-06-10 16:19:06
first off, look what i found:
Freedom Against Censorship Thailand
Woo! There is a movement! I am late to scene having just discovered that there was a protest in front of Pantip plaza this past Saturday afternoon (oh my, it was as hot as a frying pan that day…), where a whooping 40 people showed up to voice against Internet censorship in Thailand. Alas, there is hope! FACT published a page on how to get around the censorship (in thai). And handed out fre...
more Bangkok on the BrinkFrom: miserychick.net
Post Date: 2007-05-30 03:19:07
Thailand’s facing what its local media call a “judgement day” today . We’re on high alert for violence, with soldier presence all over the capital, and the news are gripping at the edge of its seat reporting non-sensical stuff about who arrives at what political party headquarters…
The macabre that is Thai Politics continues like this: after having thrown out the working copy of the constitution, set up an interim government and a special committee full of a...
more QuickcomicFrom: miserychick.net
Post Date: 2007-05-16 16:44:24
My dear friend, fellow ITP alum and protest buddy, Eric made this awesome site w/ some of his friends: www.quickcomic.com — a DIY cartoon application that has all types of characters necessary for a quick comic (har har).
Today, they were featured in the WSJ online as a Time Waster. So I made a comic to honor this occassion, and make up for not having posted about this way earlier… (I usually just jump bandwagons anyway…)
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more before i forget to mentionFrom: miserychick.net
Post Date: 2007-05-14 17:58:35
Thailand no longer plans to sue YouTube , it seems that the culture card worked out well in making Google cave in as it had agreed to remove all 12 clips cited by the Thai govt.
But, no, they haven’t lifted the ban. Might take a while yet.
now,,
back to work…
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