OMGLTFA!! (everybody was doing it ( Read more... )

Yep, I stole this.November 30, 2004 ( Read more... )

I can't even begin to express how much I hope you all read this."Global water consumption is doubling every twenty years - more than twice the rate of human population growth. According to the U.N., more than one billion people on earth already lack access to fresh drinking water ( Read more... )

So the end of the world has been predicted so many times, but then, all those predictions only happened in the last 4,000 or so years (I'm guessing generously, 'cause I'm sure some of them were BC) but we've got 38 million or something years of history. Well I can't look it up 'cause, beer. But seriously! Even 38 thousand is a lot more than 4 ( Read more... )

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Packing today, and in amongst the mouldy posters and old clothes I opened one bag and released the smell of celery.

Exhibit 1: A letter from the president of the Citizens' Progressive League, circa 1900, complaining how New Yorkers are just so damn showy ( Read more... )

One Favourite Quote:

"The world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world."
-Ani Difranco

The Metropolitan Police is to be prosecuted for failing to provide for the health, safety and welfare of Jean Charles de Menezes on the day he was shot seven times in the head by anti-terror officers ( Read more... )

Such a concept [overfishing] was unthinkable back in 1969 when Congress appointed the Stratton Commission to prepare the first report on the U.S. coastal zone, which subsequently laid the foundation for current coastal policies. The Stratton commissioners saw the ocean as a source of endless bounty, encouraging the federal government to build up U. ( Read more... )