From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Goose-Steppin’ at Zombie Lake

October 31, 2009

For your Halloween pleasure…the 1981 B-flick (as in “bad”) Zombie Lake. A review from badmovies.org helps us set the stage:
A single female wanders through an idyllic copse sheltering a secluded [...]

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h2o mp3: We Still Drink the Same Water – Teitur

October 30, 2009

Teitur is 34-year-old singer-songwriter Teitur Lassen, who the NY Daily News described as “The Norse Whisperer.” He was born in the Faroe Islands, a lightly populated groups of islands between Iceland, [...]

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You Can’t Do your Laundry on Twitter

October 29, 2009

And I don’t believe you can get “free water” on Facebook, either. In colonial Guatemala, people gathered at public water tanks and washbasins do the laundry. But the activity encompassed [...]

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The Great Pumpkin, Water Storage Version

October 28, 2009

The folks from Circleville, Ohio, sure know how to whip up some soaring enthusiasm for their annual Pumpkin Show, first held in 1903. (While it sounds quaint, it has grown [...]

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Nemo, txt u l8r

October 27, 2009

What if you could send a text message to the fishes and find out first-hand how they’re doing? U R SO FINNY, LOL! Sound crazy? Of course, this is just [...]

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Halloween Costumes for the Water Obsessed

October 26, 2009

Halloween is this Saturday! You haven’t gotten your costume together yet, you say? Thinking you’re “too serious” to dress up at all? Here are some costume ideas that will show [...]

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Many Small Choices, One Big Impact

October 23, 2009

Brand new from GOOD, a leading web provider of infographic splendidness, is the video Your Daily Water Use, produced in conjunction with Whole Foods Market. From their description,
Thirsty? So is [...]

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Word Up: The Photography of Shinichi Maruyama

October 22, 2009

Born in Japan and now working in New York, artist and photographer Shinichi Maruyama engineers the collision of water and black India ink and captures the moment that the two [...]

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The Biggest Balls Of Them All

October 21, 2009

Soccer Ball Water Tower, Mistlin Sports Park, Ripon, California (Thanks Adrian Mendoza, www.amenfoto.com)

Basketball Water Tower, Hebron, Illinois (Thanks, dharder9475 on Flickr)

Baseball Water Tower, Ellsworth, Illinois (Thanks, tlindenbaum on Flickr)

Golf Ball [...]

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Brittani and Kourtni Confront the Water Crisis

October 20, 2009

(Click the letter image for a larger, more readable view!)

Dear Ethiopian Girlfriends,
Hey what’s up! We’re thinkin about ya cos the gals over at water.org posted up some snaps of you [...]

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