Sep 28, 2011
Tech time: Kindle quick review
Tech Time: Kindle quick review:
Yes.
That's it, in a word. Great for travel anywhere. Great for home use.
How does it compare with the iPad? Don't compare it. You can't expect a $199 (yes!) device to do everything that a $599 device can.
But that said, the Kindle Fire has some amenities that the iPad lacks. Such as: FLASH!
Why the low price point? It seems to me that Amazon's Jeff Bezos, being a smart guy, realizes that this is a smart move to boost sales of content -- Amazon content. Good move.
It's a buy.
More info here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle%20customer%20service%20q%20and%20a?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1GLDPZMNR1X53&cdThread=Tx8JRF3BB4TRDE
Yes.
That's it, in a word. Great for travel anywhere. Great for home use.
How does it compare with the iPad? Don't compare it. You can't expect a $199 (yes!) device to do everything that a $599 device can.
But that said, the Kindle Fire has some amenities that the iPad lacks. Such as: FLASH!
Why the low price point? It seems to me that Amazon's Jeff Bezos, being a smart guy, realizes that this is a smart move to boost sales of content -- Amazon content. Good move.
It's a buy.
More info here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle%20customer%20service%20q%20and%20a?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1GLDPZMNR1X53&cdThread=Tx8JRF3BB4TRDE
Sep 27, 2011
Knowing the bears, childrens, cows, and "the others"
Sep 25, 2011
Sep 24, 2011
Your complicity in daily brutality....
Sep 19, 2011
Arsenic used by factory chicken farms for faster growth, "pink" appealing color
"Every year about two million pounds of arsenic-containing chemicals have been fed to chickens in the United States. Why would the industry do such a thing? When tens of thousands of birds are crammed into filthy, football field-sized sheds to lie beak-to-beak in their own waste they can become so heavily infested with internal parasites that adding arsenic to the feed to poison the bugs can result in a dramatic increase in growth rates. Also, arsenic can give the carcass a pinkish tinge, which consumers prefer." Read this important article re: Dr. Oz and Dr. Geiger insights. http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2011/09/19/dr-oz-apple-juice-and-arsenic-chicken-may-have-10-times-more/
Saving the speared swimmer at The Turtle Hospital
Sep 18, 2011
Sep 17, 2011
Sep 16, 2011
Sep 15, 2011
Sep 10, 2011
Sep 8, 2011
Buffalo Spotted in Washington DC - new exhibit
China's energy & food consumption...not enough resources
http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights18
Among the key commodities such as grain, meat, oil, coal, and steel, China consumes more of each than the United States except for oil, where the United States still has a wide (though narrowing) lead. China uses a quarter more grain than the United States. Its meat consumption is double that of the United States. It uses three times as much coal and four times as much steel.
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE - click the LINK.
What China is teaching us is that the western economic model—the fossil-fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy—will not work for the world. If it does not work for China, it will not work for India, which by 2035 is projected to have an even larger population than China. Nor will it work for the other 3 billion people in developing countries who are also dreaming the "American dream." And in an increasingly integrated global economy, where we all depend on the same grain, oil, and steel, the western economic model will no longer work for the industrial countries either.
The overriding challenge for our generation is to build a new economy—one that is powered largely by renewable sources of energy, that has a much more diversified transport system, and that reuses and recycles everything. We have the technology to build this new economy, an economy that will allow us to sustain economic progress. But can we muster the political will to translate this potential into reality?
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE - click the LINK.
The overriding challenge for our generation is to build a new economy—one that is powered largely by renewable sources of energy, that has a much more diversified transport system, and that reuses and recycles everything. We have the technology to build this new economy, an economy that will allow us to sustain economic progress. But can we muster the political will to translate this potential into reality?
Sep 4, 2011
Mortgage interest deduction - costs taxpayers $1 trillion
Beloved by the public and the real estate industry, the deduction will cost the government more than $1 trillion over the next decade.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/03/MN101KRFD4.DTL#ixzz1X1zrT6By
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/03/MN101KRFD4.DTL#ixzz1X1zrT6By
Sep 3, 2011
Sep 2, 2011
How "livestock" cows are treated: 2 must-see videos
How cows are mistreated routinely at factory farms - dairy and beef.
Fear at the salughterhouse:
Fear at the salughterhouse:
Habit Makes Bad Food Too Easy To Swallow
Habit Makes Bad Food Too Easy To Swallow -- how to break those habits? One tip: “It’s not always feasible for dieters to avoid or alter the environments in which they typically overeat,” Wood said. “More feasible, perhaps, is for dieters top actively disrupt the established patterns of how they eat through simple techniques, such as switching the hand they use to eat.”
Sep 1, 2011
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