There’s No Such Thing As Green Cocaine
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on July 20, 2008 by admin in Clean & Green
The Colombian government’s ill-conceived environmentally conscious anti-cocaine program.
Okay all you liberal elitist, environmentally conscious cokeheads. If you really care about the environment, it’s time to take the money from your nose and put it where your mouth is. [No wonder our high school English teachers warned us about mixed metaphors – Ed.] According to this article on CSMonitor.com, Shared Responsibility, the Colombian government’s eco-conscious cocaine awareness campaign, is convinced that if you only knew how your cocaine usage affected Colombia’s environment, you’d stop using it. Nice concept, but I have a hard time imagining wealthy cocaine-snorting Americans caring about much more than the next line. For the record though, 43 square feet of forest are cleared to produce just one gram of cocaine, and coca growers have cleared nearly five million acres (an area the size of New Jersey) within Colombia over the past 20 years. You can visit the Shared Responsibility web site or view some of their PSA’s at AdsOfTheWorld.com for more info. By the way, that picture at left is not actually green cocaine, it’s Meryl Streep snorting the mysterious green powder in the film Adaptation
Eat Like a Caveman
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 19, 2008 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture
Forget Dr Atkins, forget South Beach, the latest hip diet lets you get in touch with your inner caveman.
Hey America: are you fat, lethargic, stressed out, and always suffering minor ailments? Well, stop thinking like a caveman and start eating like one. I didn’t realize it until a friend pointed it out to me, but except for massive amounts of chocolate, coffee, and cigarettes, I eat a Paleo Diet. And I feel great. Our friend George pictured here has it all wrong as usual. Lay off the corn, for starters. Otherwise, the basic idea is simple: we only started eating many common foods with the advent of agriculture about 10,000 years ago, and evolution hasn’t had time for our organism to adapt to the diet. Therefore, eat things like lean meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots and nuts, and don’t eat so many grains, beans, and dairy products. Also watch the salt, sugar and processed oils. For recipes and lots of links to other resources, visit PaleoDiet.com. Friends of mine who actually subscribe to the specifics of the diet say not to be obsessive about it; as soon as you start lowering your intake of grains and dairy a little, you actually start losing your appetite for these foods. The same friends also recommended The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat
Getting Joost
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on July 19, 2008 by admin in Popular Media
Joost – a new way to watch TV and streaming video, from the creators of Skype and Kazaa.
As a media-addicted person who can’t stand conventional television (I shut off my cable service in 2004), I’m always looking for new ways to feed my film & video jones. For television programs that people recommend, I usually BitTorrent . For news video, I can usually find a decent stream somewhere on the web. For film, I rent a lot of DVD’s, and catch the couple of big-screen-worthy films released each year in an actual theater, usually at matinee prices. Yes, I’m a cheap bastard. That’s why I was intrigued last year when I heard that the guys who created Skype and the much-litigated Kazaa (Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis) were working on a project called Joost , a system for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer technology. Although I signed up as an early Beta user, the available content at launch time didn’t thrill me, so I waited until today to try it. If you want some television-like content on your computer, you HAVE to try this. After a reasonable download (11MB) and a very simple account setup, I was browsing an amazing variety of worthwile content. Media partners include A&E, PBS, National Geographic, CBS, BET, and many, many more. According to their site, 28,000+ shows and 480+ channels. You can download Joost here.
Old People Are Fun
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 18, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
The Beige Site. For everything you need to know about old people.
If that headline intrigued you, either get out your reading glasses or go to View>Text Size and click “increase”. There. Now that you can read this, I just want to make the observation that you never see stuff about old people on the web. Why? Well, the web is for young people, and young people, for the most part, are too busy friending people on MySpace and watching bottle-rocket-in-the-butt videos on YouTube to be bothered about silly things like old people. The problem is, someday you’ll be old, so you better learn about what it means. The Beige Site contains a wealth of information about old people, including: what is an old person? where can I find one? and how much does one cost ? Not sure if you’re an old person? Then take the test .
GOP Suing Its Only Friends?
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 18, 2008 by admin in Politics
The GOP threatens Cafe Press with lawsuits for letting its users promote the GOP.
Hey Republicans! You’re doing it wrong! In the latest example of “just-not-getting-it”, the GOP is apparently threatening to sue CafePress for allowing its users to repurpose the various trademarked GOP images such as the red-white-and-blue elephant and the letters “GOP”. The irony, of course, being the preponderance of images that are IN FAVOR of the GOP. Why would you want to sue your free marketing team? They obviously don’t have any money, I mean, who buys anything from CafePress? Next thing you know, they’ll be suing kids for drawing pictures of Dumbo and reading Horton Hears a Who