From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Headed to Pick Up His Stimulus Check

February 19, 2009

I saw this hysterical pic about a year ago, but this week’s Stimu-lust media blitz brought it crashing out of my subconciousness. Water & Pork: you can’t have one without [...]

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The Good NEW Days: We’re on AllTop!

February 19, 2009

The email last night that put me into respiratory arrest began,
Your site has been added to http://water.alltop.com/
If you’re not familiar with AllTop, it was launched last year by Guy Kawasaki; it aggregates scores [...]

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Post-Festival Fate of the Metheun Tree

February 18, 2009

Sometimes I’d just stare and think…I wonder what’s become of her? Just a couple months ago we wrote about plastic bottle holiday trees, including this recyclarific example from the 2008 Methuen (Massachussetts) [...]

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Headline Let-Down: Aussie Metered Toilets?!

February 17, 2009

You know the feeling, you see a tantalizing headline and bolt upright in your chair; like today, when “Doomsday Jim” (this blog’s eyes and ears ”down-under”) sends a link to this:
AUSTRALIA’S [...]

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The Perversion of Bottled Water

February 17, 2009

The amazing Yellow Surprise motivated me to begin this blog and I believed that it (along with ASS) would reign supreme in funny-water brand-land forever. Never say never. Yellow Surprise [...]

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Go Gross: Winning Hearts & Minds with Yuck Appeal

February 16, 2009

One sixth of the world, no access to clean water. 2 million people, dead of waterborne diseases. Every year. Year after year.
Blah blah. Why doesn’t everyone get it? Why are relatively few [...]

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Casualties of Climate Change

February 15, 2009

Another reason to mourn this year’s lean snowpack numbers. From www.funnychill.com, but seen places elsewhere on the world wide web, so original source unknown.

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Disaster Dignity: Water Emergency Week Day 5

February 15, 2009

Have you considered that in an emergency, your bath water might “save you from great embarassment?” Kobe, Japan’s website shares real-life experiences of citizens who were victims of the devastating Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake to [...]

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h2o mp3: When Water Comes to Life – Cloud Cult

February 13, 2009

A sweeping, vaguely cinematic alt tune that’s hard to classify but oddly hypnotic, from a band who’ve earned their “green” stripes. Lyrics:
And when they burn your body, all thats left [...]

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In the Future, Business Leaders will be Closely Supervised

February 13, 2009

I rarely read or write fiction. Why bother, when the real world produces rich stories like this, my nomination for best punch line in a news story in 2009. From [...]

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