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An article entitled Turning Swords into Battleaxes: Recycled Vikings! just came across the twitter feed. It’s premise, that Vikings ‘recycled’ because they took broken weapons to their local blacksmith and had them made into new ones. While this is a nice story, and it’s point is somewhat relevant, let’s not delude ourselves. The Vikings weren’t [...]

Too many environmentally minded people ignore the economic realities that impact our use of oil. In this video economist Jeff Rubin discusses the future of our economy and the impact rising oil prices will have on global markets. It’s an interesting perspective.

Back in January I posted an article about CFL lights. I decided to run a test, replacing 6 of 7 light bulbs with cfls. I’m happy to announce, the results are in. All 6 of the CFLs I installed are still burning brightly, but last week the lone incandescent burnt out. Obviously, this isn’t a [...]

In the spring of 2006 the Indiana legislature forced the whole state to observe Daylight Savings Time. Up until this point, the majority of Indiana counties did not change their clocks every year. This change in the states behavior was studied by University of California-Santa Barbara. Their conclusion? Last year the change COST Indiana residents [...]

I’m always a sucker for cool geographic features. Almost got my brother in law that Planet Earth series on Blue-Ray so I could watch it on his home theatre. In that same vein, here is a GREAT article on 7 Amazing Holes. Now, if Google Earth would just stop crashing my Slackware 12 installation I [...]

Ever since moving into my home in 2001 I have had a problem with lightbulbs. It seems that the bulbs typically only last a few months at most. I have attempted to research the reason behind this and have come to the conclusion that it’s either because incandescent lightbulbs are worthless, or there is some [...]

In the most insane news of the day the State of California is suing automakers for Global Warming. This is actually an interesting case. California is going to have to convince a jury that Global Warming actually is occurring Greenhouse gasses are causing global warming Automakers are responsible for these greenhous gasses This should really [...]

Global Warming. It’s the hot buzzword these days. Between Al Gore’s movie, the price of gas and the scientists testifying in Congress it’s all you hear. Funny thing though, wouldn’t have thought Global Warming would make it COLDER. Yet here I am, on the 8th of July 2006, in a Colorado summer and it’s 69 [...]

I’m pretty sure if I went and dumped trash on somebody’s front step I would get in trouble. The owner of the house would probably call the police and I’d get a ticket for littering. There are signs on the highway warning about fines for dumping. So why is it that people can just come [...]