recent posts Flush with the Success of Twitter...
Flush with the Success of Twitter
Wow, Twitter is overloaded with crap! Seriously! One resourceful, twitter-hating hacker has conceived and built a toilet that tweets with every flush! (We previously blogged on a tweeting water meter here.) Declaring it “more useful and relevant than just about everything else on twitter,” the inventor has posted detailed instructions in case you’d like to try it on your own. You...
Telepene Water: Gush, Gush, Fizz, Fizz...
Telepene Water: Gush, Gush, Fizz, Fizz
I hope the gas comes after the gush! From quisnovus on Flickr comes this photo of Telepene, the official water of the Albanian national football team. (Americans: surely you understand by now they mean soccer!) Suffled how it gush from the woods of Tepelene You might be surprised to hear that Albania has a football team. Perhaps you’re confusing Albania with the Dilbert outpost of Elbonia. Albania...
Grandeur in the Ocean Garbage Patch...
Grandeur in the Ocean Garbage Patch
This new awareness advert from Rise Above Plastics combines the ick factor of the ocean garbage patch with the majesty of a giant whale with predictably repugnant results. (From their website, we learn that “In some places of the Pacific Ocean, the amount of plastic suspended in the water outnumbers plankton six to one.”) Two other items on the Rise Above Plastics website that make us...
San Antonio’s Mutant Ninja Sewer Turtle...
San Antonio’s Mutant Ninja Sewer Turtle
From this angle, I can’t quite tell if this is Michaelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Donatello! A few mutant Ninja skills might have helped this fully grown, totally stuck turtle found trapped inside a Texas sewer pipe. The San Antonio Water System’s snaking sewer camera caught the oddball obstruction during a routine sewer line check. It took hours of dirty digging and dismantling to...
A Water Symphony Sings for Skoda...
A Water Symphony Sings for Skoda
For all the irritation wrought by boorish, intrusive advertising, let’s remember: occasionally advertising offers us some rare, aesthetic delight that stops us in our tracks. Such is the case with this ad for Czech auto manufacturer Škoda featuring experimental Czech musician Petr Spatina. He is seen playing 597 water-filled Schott Zwiesel crystal wine glasses… arranged in the shape...
recent from Water Music h2o mp3: Afraid of Water - Uranium Lake h2o mp3: Afraid of Water - Uranium Lake
Have you ever witnessed the sheer terror that envelopes a person as they anxiously declare, “I’M AFRAID OF WATER!” Of course you have, and that’s why “afraid of water” is such a visceral allegorical phrase to express unreasonable, overwhelming fear. This track cleverly employs the phrase to express an aversion people and social situations. This alt-pop group from Northwich/Manchester,...
recent from Newsworthy The Smart Set Always Heads for the Beach The Smart Set Always Heads for the Beach
I’m thinking (as I browse travel sites from ThirstyInSuburbia’s cold-gripped Midwest HQ) how people naturally seek out bodies of water. We are hopelessly drawn to it. Look at any map and note how the population clusters along oceans, rivers, coastlines or lakes. Is it part of our human nature to seek out bodies of water? Nature or nurture? Theorized by neuroscientist Michael Crawford,...
recent from Water Towers Barcelona Water Tower Brings On The Bling Barcelona Water Tower Brings On The Bling
Attention civic boosters, if your town’s pride-and-joy water tower is decorated with a flat, plain-Jane painted logo or mascot, imagine how something like this could help you hit the big time! Your town’s tower could display a sparkling digital media extravaganza worthy of a glamorous international destination like Barcelona in Spain! (Don’t fret over funding…a couple of bogus...
recent from Art and Water Yosemite February Fire Fall: A Hot Photo Op Yosemite February Fire Fall: A Hot Photo Op
It’s a good thing I read Aquafornia or I might never have known about the odd, rare and spectacular illusion known as the Yosemite “Fire Fall”… which actually involves no fire whatsoever. Left, Horsetail Falls-Yosemite, by dlr9000 on Flickr In Yosemite there is an almost non-existent waterfall called “Horsetail Falls.” During the last two weeks in February if conditions...
recent from Recycling and Reuse What Modern Water Engineers Can Learn from Ancient Infrastructure What Modern Water Engineers Can Learn from Ancient Infrastructure
From TED: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting: With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today — and are often superior to modern water...
recent from Bottled Water Moral Mayhem at Vancouver’s Mini-Bars! Moral Mayhem at Vancouver’s Mini-Bars!
Besides the Coca Cola/Dasani concession, where’s the least-likely place we’d expect to find tap water promoted during the Vancouver Olympic frenzy? Hotel mini-bars, you say? Photo via cbc.ca: A stainless steel refillable water bottle is featured prominently in mini-bars in Vancouver Well,...