From the monthly archives:

March 2009

March 31st: The Annual Day of Readiness

March 31, 2009

Just a few minutes of preparation today and you’ll be tactically ready for a schadenfreude-filled April Fools Days tomorrow! It’s one of my favorite “holidays” especially if the prank involves [...]

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Blown Away by Colorado Tap Water

March 30, 2009

In a previous post, I declared that you’ll never have to call a bomb squad to detonate your tap. Now, it appears that might be false!
Apparently, if you live too [...]

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First You Swim and Then You Die

March 28, 2009

And then you “swim” again. The ironically-named goldfish Lucky has come to his end at a pink-toilet watery grave, but not before receiving a proper eulogy and sendoff from little [...]

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h2o mp3: Portland Water: Michael Hurley

March 27, 2009

Here’s one just for our friends at the Portland Water Bureau (who we admire for blazing new trails in innovative public information and communications for water utilities!)
Michael Hurley is a [...]

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Museum-Quality Water Bottles in Bulgaria

March 26, 2009

This installation on the facade of the National Gallery of Bulgaria was short-lived but striking. For just over two weeks, from March 7-24, 2009, the display created by the Bulgarian [...]

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Heads in the Cloud: Transboundary Waters Visualized in Total

March 25, 2009

Duh, why didn’t I think of that? While creating the “word clouds” (original post here) for the World Water Day Synchro-blog on Transboundary Waters, it never occured to me to [...]

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Kitchen Culture: The Microbial Kind

March 24, 2009

WARNING: POST CONTAINS INFORMATION THAT MAY BE DISTURBING TO GERMAPHOBES.
Before you blame the public works establishment for your funny-tasting tap water, it might be a good idea to look in [...]

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Visualizing Transboundary Waterblogging

March 22, 2009

When Daniel Collins over at Cr!key Creek suggested that water bloggers get in sync for World Water Day to write on the theme of transboundary waters, I was in an [...]

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h2o mp3: New World Water: Mos Def

March 21, 2009

Here’s one for World Water Day on Sunday. The music of hip hop artist Mos Def is often politically charged and socially aware, and certainly earns its “parental advisory” designation. [...]

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To Those Who’ve Received: Time To Give Back

March 19, 2009

It’s World Water Day this weekend and like most special days, a gift or thoughtful gesture would certainly be appropriate! For those of us with the incredible good fortune to [...]

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