 Share This- Time Warner Cable: Heavy Downloaders Should Pay Us More Money
 Jan 17, 2008 10:21am  (1 review) internet, time-warner-cable, greed http://mashable.com/2008/01/17/time-warn...- Wee, Time Warner hoping to charge people who use their service the most more money. What's next? Charging more per gallon for people who fill their tanks with gas more often? o_O Actually, that's not a bad idea.
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- Aquatic Sugar: The Childrens Interface, Translated for Adults - OLPC...
- Nov 8, 2007 11:25pm
 (1 review) linux, interface, gui, olpc, xo-laptop http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operati... - Find out how the GUI for the new XO laptop works with graphics even you can understand! ;)
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- Newspaper Index - The best online newspapers all countries - All newspapers...
- Nov 1, 2007 2:29pm (10 reviews) news, news-sources, online-newspapers, news-resources http://www.newspaperindex.com/
- Check out this great source for finding online newspapers based in other countries.
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- http://ny.metro.us/metro/blog/my_view/entry/The_police_state_of_our_sc...
- Oct 7, 2007 1:06pm (6 reviews) crime, police, big-brother, police-state, overpolicing http://ny.metro.us/metro/blog/my_view/en...
- This is a crazy article about how NYC is already a police state for kids. I found this article through a link from indexresearch.blogspot.com/2007/10/us-war-on-children.html [indexresearch.blogspot.com/2007/10/us-war-on-children.html]
- Sep 15, 2007 1:03am
- DISTURBING FACTS ABOUT BOTTLED WATER (posted on ThePete.Com on 9/19/7 @ 6am PT)
This is kinda crazy but something I've suspected for some time. Big business takes advantage of ignorant customers in so many ways them just bottling tap water, slapping a drawing of a mountain range on it and calling it "Aquafina" shouldn't be too surprising. But that's not all that's wrong with bottled water. It just might be as bad as tap. But there's much more to the story than even what I found in this dude's MySpace blog post (here: urltea.com/1hqy [urltea.com/1hqy] ). I found a whole slew of articles about the flaws of bottled water when I went to digg this blog post. Check them out here: digg.com/search [digg.com/search] +water
However, one thing I think the other articles don't mention that Michael does in his post is how plastic bottles will break down. Here's how he puts it:...the plastic from the bottled water actually breaks down toxically into the water you are drinking out of it.
Crazy, huh? Now, the reason I started drinking bottled water a lot and why I filter my tap water at home is because the water that comes out of my tap is actually visibly disgusting. Rusted pipes (I'm guessing) turn the water a vague orange--however, the coloring doesn't last long. I can run the tap a bit and it clears up--still, if that's what I can see, how do I know there isn't worse stuff that I can't see?
Now, there are alternatives to both plastic bottled water and tap. Michael, in his post, recommends buying bottled water in glass bottles or some kind of reusable container that you can refill at the source. My friend John has a bottle from sigg.ch [sigg.ch] and I'll be following suit, myself. Those are some nice bottles. Then, there's the guy from Ipswitch, UK that Telegraph.co.uk reported on (here: urltea.com/1hr8 [urltea.com/1hr8] ) who invented a bottle that costs about $400 so I won't be picking up one of these until after I get the new iPod Touch--hey, a guy's got to have his priorities! But if healthy filtered drinking water is something you think is worth $400 right now, you can head over to LifeSaverSystems.com/buy.html and pick one up yourself. There is also the LifeStraw, but that's only available to institutions currently. Read more about it at LifeStraw.com.
So, there are things you can do and once again we see there is nothing that Big Business won't do to make a buck--even if it means completely misleading us and ultimately wasting our money.
But hey, they've got to make a living right?
MAN, do I hate that phrase!
Don't assassins and hitmen have to make a living, too?
Back on the topic, here are some more quick facts when it comes to bottled water:
1) Bottled water is extremely harmful to the environment, with more than 60 million bottles of water thrown away each day and 20 million barrels of oil used each year to make the plastic bottles containing the water. (source: urltea.com/1hqy [urltea.com/1hqy] )
2) Nearly 90 percent of water bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose. (source: urltea.com/1hr2 [urltea.com/1hr2] )
3) It takes 6.74 times the amount of water to produce a single kilogram bottle of Fiji bottled water. (source: urltea.com/1hr3 [urltea.com/1hr3] )
4) NASA and the WHO (the World Health Organization, not the rock band) think that by 2050 4 billion people will face water shortages. (source: urltea.com/1hr5 [urltea.com/1hr5] )
5) The FDA's standards for tap water are much more strict than their standards for bottled water. (source: urltea.com/1hr2 [urltea.com/1hr2] )
I could go on. Obviously there is a problem. What is my solution? Until I can get my hands on one of those filter bottles, I'll be buying myself a steel bottle from Sigg and then refilling it with filtered tap water. The filter pitcher I use is from Britta, but I have no idea how effective it is. Once I can get one of those filter bottles, I'll definitely be using it as a middle man between my tap and my steel bottle.
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- MySpace.com Blogs - =Michael= MySpace Blog
- Sep 15, 2007 12:59am (1 review) health, lies, big-business, bottled-water http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseac...
- This is kinda crazy but something I've suspected for some time. Big business takes advantage of ignorant customers in so many ways them just bottling tap water, slapping a drawing of a mountain range on it and calling it "Aquafina" shouldn't be too surprising. But that's not all that's wrong with bottled water. It just might be as bad as tap. Seriously, read this post. The guy who wrote it is a human interest filmmaker and damn hunky, too. Regardless of his looks, he's out there pointing out what wrong and this is just one simple post that presents facts that effect almost everyone I know.
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- Natuba - Photos That Matter &
- Sep 7, 2007 8:03pm (2 reviews) internet-tools, vlogs, vlogging, webcams, video-blogging http://www.natuba.com/
- This site has a lot of potential--already it's got in place some great features, but allowing video producers (the folks shooting the videos) full control (read: ability to download) their videos has yet to be implemented. Once that gets added, BlogTV will have two features that make it better than YouTube, in my mind--downloadable vids and live broadcasting. Pretty sweet.
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- Box.net | Simple Online Collaboration: Online File Storage, FTP Replacement...
- Aug 29, 2007 4:49am (9 reviews) internet-tools http://www.box.net/home
- Box.net seems to have really figured it out. They're beating Pownce.com to the punch by offering the services Box has always offered combined with the social networking features we're all so used to on sites like MySpace. The catch is, Pownce is doing the same stuff--but Box is already doing it--on top of that, Box is offering blog integration and embeddable widgets that allow you to make files available for folks who visit your blog. I'm not sure if Pownce is cooler anymore. We'll just have to see...
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- thepete.com / THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS YOU'RE READING THIS BLOG
- Aug 20, 2007 2:58pm (1 review) government http://thepete.com/the-government-knows-...
- Is it wrong to Stumble your own blog post when you know it makes a good point? Ah well, spend a few minutes reading about why the government tracking every bit of Internet traffic is not a good idea, too bad that's just what they're doing. Already know about this story? Then what do you think about it? Agree with it? Then why not pass it around? Disagree with it? Why not tell the world why?
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