Archive for July 25th, 2007

Amazing Vizualization Of Consumerism

By Hazzard - Last updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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 http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/running_the_numbers/12rtn.php 11,000 jet trails are produced in this country every 8 hours http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/running_the_numbers/ http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/running_the_numbers/02rtn.php 106,000 aluminum cans are used [...]

How Free Is My Computer?

By Hazzard - Last updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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 [...]