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I Wonder What The Rest Of The World Thinks

Yeah, I know.  You aren’t supposed to care what other people think.  When I see pictures like the one below though, I often wonder what the rest of the world must think.  Looks like Materialism at it’s finest.  Bling bling!

I can only imagine how much those wheels and tires cost.  They probably cost [...]

Qwest Does The Right Thing

On December 15, 2007 my parents had a fire at their home.  The fire gutted the garage/shop and smoked the inside of their house.  Days after the fire, my mother called the various utilities to stop them while they waited to rebuild and clean their house.  They knew it would be months before they would [...]

Amazing Vizualization Of Consumerism

When I saw these images of various consumer products that are vizualized in their various quantities I was struck with how much waste we have in this country.

426,000 cel phones are retired every day.

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/running_the_numbers/11rtn.php

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11,000 jet trails are produced in this country every 8 hours

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106,000 aluminum cans are used [...]

How Free Is My Computer?

A lot of people talk about open source and point out that it’s the holy grail of software.  I love open source software just as much as the next guy but I also like Windows.  I’ve used Linux in the past (an old Redhat version and the more recent Ubuntu) but I could never bring [...]