03 March 2009
02 March 2009
Bottled Water Drinkers Are The New Smokers
"A year ago we quoted Giles Coren of the London Times writing "Mineral water is a preposterous vanity." This modest and self-effacing food critic now takes credit for the government taking action about it. "For make no mistake, this is all my doing. Since I first made my stand against bottled water in 2006 – incorporating penalty points for serving it into my restaurant ratings, vilifying its producers and mocking its consumers – consumption of the stuff has plummeted (probably) Far more restaurants than ever before offer tap water first and then bottled only as the Bling-Bling alternative. Punters who opt for the Perrier or Badoit now do so with a blush and an apology to diners at the next table.
"In 2008 drinkers of bottled water are the new smokers."
Coren concludes, in his usual style:
"From the restaurants’ point of view it is just a clipping system. It’s more free money. The mark-ups are bigger even than they are on wine. You’ll pay £4 to £5 in most posh London restaurants for stuff no different, no different at all, from what you brushed your teeth in that morning (not leaving the tap on while doing so, I hope). The result is billions of unnecessary food miles, nonbiodegradable waste, millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases, more urban pollution, hell in a handcart." ::Times Online"
Also awesome:
"Mineral water is a preposterous vanity. It is flown and shipped around the world, from France and Norway at best, from Japan and Fiji at worst. It is bottled in glass that is mostly thrown away and is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic which never, ever, decomposes and just goes to landfill or ends up in one of the “plastic patches” the size of Texas currently gyring in our oceans.
Food snobs and restaurant critics make a big song and dance about mineral waters they like and don’t like. New York’s Ritz-Carlton even caters to the whim of abstemious punters with a dedicated water list and sommelier.
The vanity of it! While half the world dies of thirst or puts up with water you wouldn’t piss in, or already have, we have invested years and years, and vast amounts of money, into an ingenious system which cleanses water of all the nasties that most other humans and animals have always had to put up with, and delivers it, dirt-cheap, to our homes and workplaces in pipes, which we can access at a tap.
And yet last year we bought three billion litres of bottled water. 3,000,000,000 litres! I have no idea how much that is. But it seems a lot. Especially when we were fooled into buying it because of labels that said “pure as an alpine stream”, “bottled at the foot of a Mexican volcano” or “cleansed for three million years beneath a Siberian glacier”. What morons we are. ::Times online"
From treehugger.com24 February 2009
Warcopter
I based this work off a previous manipulation of a picture from some military site. This recent attempt is a piece depicting modern warfare.
Tod
21 February 2009
19 February 2009
11 February 2009
08 February 2009
FrontRunner South Demo Using Google Earth 5.0
Here's a little demo I did using Google Earth 5.0 explaining where the University Ave Station for FrontRunner South will be. More to come later as I map out UTA's map of the whole project.
Click here to download the GE tour file (note: you will be GE 5.0 to view this).
Tod
Click here to download the GE tour file (note: you will be GE 5.0 to view this).
Tod
16 January 2009
'War on terror' was wrong
"Seven years on from 9/11 it is clear that we need to take a fundamental look at our efforts to prevent extremism and its terrible offspring, terrorist violence. Since 9/11, the notion of a "war on terror" has defined the terrain. The phrase had some merit: it captured the gravity of the threats, the need for solidarity, and the need to respond urgently - where necessary, with force. But ultimately, the notion is misleading and mistaken. The issue is not whether we need to attack the use of terror at its roots, with all the tools available. We must. The question is how."Read the rest of this great editorial by Foreign Secretary of the UK, David Miliband, by clicking here.
Just a Couple Awesome Videos
Talk about Millenial parallels here:
And of course I delight in Keifer Sutherland:
And of course I delight in Keifer Sutherland:
14 January 2009
Afghan Girls, Scarred by Acid, Defy Terror, Embracing School
Afghan Girls, Scarred by Acid, Defy Terror, Embracing School
Amazing stories of courage in this article on The New York Times website. Read it if you have a spare minute or two. The importance of girls and women receiving education is essential in combating terrorism throughout the world.
10 January 2009
Target Samples
Samples I "designed" while in the Produce Department at the Super Target in Orem, Utah.
Photos taken on my mobile phone.
Photos taken on my mobile phone.
09 January 2009
05 January 2009
19 December 2008
16 December 2008
08 December 2008
02 December 2008
It's an outrage! Mormon church donated $2,864 to Yes on 8 effort
... an in-kind donation to pay for plane fare for some of its members.
Wow. And there are still legal cases being waged to strip the Church of tax-exempt status for its $2,864 expense, even though a church can spend up to 20% of its budget on political activity. More here.
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