[From: MAKE: Blog] The Evening Chronicle has an article on a teen-turned-fuel baron… sorta – He happily admits he’s hopeless at school – but Steven Henderson is Tyneside’s very own oil baron. Northumberland’s answer to JR Ewing has built his own oil refinery in the shed at his home in Stamfordham Road, Eachwick, near Ponteland, [...]
Archive For February, 2007
The New Wine
[From: The J-Walk Blog] Another bottled water story: Designer water the new wine. Part of an emerging trend toward water connoisseurship, 10 Thousand BC is “ultra-premium” water derived from an environmentally protected glacier. It is bottled and corked to the sound of inspirational music — much like playing Mozart to a baby in the womb [...]
Fake Private Parts Are No Joke, Myers Says
[From washingtonpost.com] Delegate Wants to Ban Vehicle Displays of Plastic Genitals By Lisa Rein Washington Post Staff Writer POW MIA Black Ribbon Urban Camo 8″ Nutz Maryland Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr. to truckers: If you’ve got ‘em, you don’t need to flaunt ‘em. As the General Assembly debates global warming and the death penalty, [...]
Green Party contest ($100 prizes)
[From: Third Estate Sunday Review] The Green Party in Suffolk County is always busy and creative. They have a contest going on right now. Are you creative? They’ll be giving out two $100 prizes — one to someone 18 or over and one to someone under 18. Read on: Press Contacts: Roger Snyder, Green Party [...]
Egypt blogger jailed for ‘insult’
An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years’ prison for insulting Islam and the president. Soliman was arrested for his “insulting” blog posts in November Abdel Kareem Soliman’s trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt. He had used his web log to criticise the country’s top [...]
KFC Appeals to Higher Authority by Asking for Papal Blessing for New KFC(R) Fish Snacker Sandwich
[KFC Press Release. -RS] New Fish Snacker Offers Modern Take on ‘Loaves and Fishes’ for Today’s Lenten Observers LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ — The world’s most popular chicken restaurant chain is offering fish for the first time nationally with the introduction of the new KFC(R) Fish Snacker. The company has asked the Pope himself [...]
Cheney at Odds With McCain Over Rumsfeld
Feb 21, 5:35 PM (ET) By LIZ SIDOTI (AP) U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney waves to U.S. forces in Japan before his address aboard the USS…Full Image ‘); WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday challenged GOP presidential hopeful John McCain’s assertion that Donald H. Rumsfeld was one of the country’s worst defense [...]
Dams could contribute to climate change
[From ArcaMax.com] Dams could contribute to climate change LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Dams may contribute to global warming instead of being the clean energy source many have long thought, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Greenhouse gases are emitted during construction and when the land behind a dam is flooded and vegetation rots, causing carbon [...]
Jim Kunstler’s Agenda (and Mine)
[From How to Save the World] Red line: Sustainable population/sustainable total footprint at prevailing levels of consumption, with no provision for any non-human species. Green line: Sustainable population/sustainable total footprint at prevailing levels of consumption, with provision for a healthy level of biodiversity. In 1980 we started living on borrowed time. We’re now living 1/3 [...]