Earth Hour 2010

March 27, 2010. 20:30 to 21:30 local time. Turn off your lights.

Read by candlelight. Go outside. Take a nap. Enjoy the people around you. Turn on your long exposure manual setting on your camera.

Looking Back...Conversations Had

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.” --William Hutchinson Murray

World Water Week #2

The truth about bottled water

To continue the week.

..via Nag on the Lake

Tapped #2, World Water Day

World Water Day March 22, 2010. Or, as Tapped the movie would have it, World Water Week, because one day isn't enough. I have to agree.

"The wars of the 21st century will be fought over water." —Ismail Serageldin, former vice president of the World Bank

Making Happy

I have to say, on a daily basis, work makes this very hard. But for once, Monday is not so bad.

$76,500 Platinum Datsun Fairlady Z 432

40th anniversary edition Fairlady Z 432 created out of pure platinum, costing $76K+. Ad not for sale.

To be fair, it is a Z. Personally, I am happy with my blue 240Z, but hey, if I had the money to throw around to make completely random things, a Datsun is always a good place to start.

Tapped

Screening at the Inwood on Wednesday, April 7th. Anyone want to go?

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Let us all show our pride in taking over the heathen Irish by The Church by drinking. :)

Video Barbie - Things I Want # 12130

I totally want this doll, and if it was up for pre-order on Amazon, it would be on my list.

Yes, I know it is kinda retarded. Yes, I know I am 28 years old. But, really, how awesome would it be to walk around with a Barbie in hand to too many unlikely places and take photos?

I also want a Spirograph. Maybe I'm just rebelling against adulthood.

..via Gizmodo

It's a Hugh Day

Quailty

Quailty: to have the qualities of a quail.

This is on my companies website.

AKA People Are Idiots

Facebook Wants to be Your One True Login

So maybe I'm a but behind on seeing this, possibly because I'm not a big fan of Facebook and never bother to sign in. A completely separate website writes an article about how Facebook wants to start being the log in for several other websites, such as Digg and Hulu, and all of these complete morons start trying to log into Facebook through RWW. The wonders of the internet age, when not bookmarking or realizing that you have to type in the website you are desiring to visit through the URL bar instead of using Google to find everything you need. Priceless.

Flickr Flow

Using an algorithm developed for the WIRED Anniversary visualization, our software calculated the relative proportions of different colors seen in photos taken in each month of the year, and plotted them on a wheel. The image below is an early sketch from the piece. Summer is at the top, with time proceeding clockwise.

Happy Pi Day!

So the comic is old, but the meaning is still true.

Underwater Church Reappears

You might call it an act of God. A severe drought in Venezuela has exposed a church—pictured in 2008 (left) and on February 21, 2010—that had been inundated when a hydroelectric dam was built in 1985.

The 82-foot-tall (25-meter-tall) church and the Andean town of Potosi (see map) were flooded to establish the Uribante-Caparo water reservoir to power the plant, which is currently operating at just 7 percent of its capacity, according to the Reuters service. (Get news on the global water crisis.)

The church is now an ominous symbol of energy shortages in the country, which gets around 68 percent of its power from hydroelectricity, Reuters reported. The droughts spurred Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to declare an energy emergency in February.

Fast Food Geographic Dominance

The top 8 burger chains by geographic dominance, McDonald's being the overall winner across the country. Although there is a pretty sizable Sonic chain over Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas. In Dallas, it seems they just sit the 2 next to each other.

I totally need a new office chair

Vespa chair by Bel & Bel. I wonder if it would be acceptable to wear leathers all day to go with the chair. Or physically feasible.

Not Cool, Steve

Your captcha is very rude. Ho-test? Wow. Pretty sure typing it in doesn't really discriminate on that.

I Don't Like Monday's.....

Just for a day or two, I wish I had a job where I could just work and not have someone want something from me every 2 minutes. Just let me be and stop using me as the sounding board for every little picky thing you can come up with, and use your brain for 2 seconds before asking me questions that require just a bit of common sense. I don't think it is too much to ask for people to use their brain instead of mine, but then, I could be sorely mistaken.