http://blog.gayleleonard.com Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:24:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ONE: eBay Water Item of the Week: A working water system...just perfect for tiny suburbia! This is a 1960s vintage toy sink, made by Casdon in the UK. Seller notes "The item is in very good condition and the box is OK but has lost one flap." GBP 14.99 TWO: Weird Water ... http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2010/03/friday-5-uk-edition-good-stuff-you-missed-this-week/ I'm always on the lookout for new ideas on how to recycle old toilets (like this and this) and "Flush Away Cancer" demonstrates wild and wonderful out-of-the-bowl thinking on creative loo reuse. [caption id="attachment_4550" align="alignleft" width="238" caption="Traveling Toilet photo via www.wbng.com"][/caption] For the Tri-Town (New York) Relay for Life, one team has conceived ... http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2010/03/wild-recycling-flush-away-cancer/ South Haven officials, please get in touch. I believe I can help you unravel this perplexing mystery. Which begs the question: are there environmental problems in heaven? Lane County, how much of this is allocated for communications consultants? I know a good one and I'm pretty sure she can work within your ... http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2010/03/headlines-that-make-me-say-huh/ If you're looking for a happy-clappy everything-went-perfect DIY inspirational story, better keep looking! (Although in this story, we do live happily ever after in the end.) For "Fix a Leak Week" I was armed and READY. Before we discovered it, our running toilet leak had caused us to lose about 6 ... http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2010/03/happy-fix-a-leak-week/ ONE: Ebay Water Item of the Week: Las Vegas Gaming Water Bottle Caddy $2.99. This is for all the folks who are ready to cast their chips on a Las Vegas water gamble! Winner takes all! TWO: Weird Water News Item of the week: [caption id="attachment_4498" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Screenshot of video from ... http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2010/03/the-friday-fiver-good-stuff-you-missed-this-week/ Austin Water Utility demonstrates that slimy, greasy, fatty subject matter can really get the creative juices flowing!  “Stop the Grease Blob” sounds like a band playing at Austin's SXSW, but is actually a video from the city's campaign to alert customers to the horrifying consequences of putting greases and fats down ... http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2010/03/austin-beware-of-the-blob/ Two recent items prove the equation true! First, it was raining fish from the sky! Twice! Read all about the ultimate fish story from the territorial town of Lajamanuat via ntnews.com.au and don't miss the memorable first-person account in the story: Mrs Balmer, the aged care co-ordinator at the Lajamanu Aged Care Centre, said her ... http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2010/03/aussies-fish-funny/ This talented Canadian singer-songwriter provides us a perfect track for National Groundwater Awareness Week (a great idea since most of the populace has enough to worry about with the things that they CAN see.) Water in the Ground is from MacLellan's third 2009 release and is a melodic, clean, pure folk-influenced ... http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2010/03/h2o-mp3-water-in-the-ground-catherine-maclellan/ 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 ... http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2010/03/flush-with-the-success-of-twitter/ 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 ... http://blog.gayleleonard.com/2010/03/telepene-water-gush-gush-fizz-fizz/