Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
man is sued for not using local trash service
This is messed up, a man’s local local municipality has filed suite against him for withdrawing from use of its contracted trash removal service:
A man who claims to have reduced his waste to nearly nothing out of concern for the environment now faces a lawsuit from San Carlos for canceling his garbage-collection service.
Eddie House, 53, […]
No Comments » - Posted in green, this can't be by Marty Finestone
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
if you are going to leave your computer on, at least let it do some good
From Nature.org (via digg):
In fact, if you leave your computer on 24 hours a day, it could be responsible for releasing up to 1,500 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. The flying-toaster screen saver is cool…but is it that cool?
But if you have to leave your computer on, here’s a way you can […]
1 Comment » - Posted in activity, green, tech(ish) by Marty Finestone
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
how a high school dropout became an art forger with mom and dad’s help
From the National Post:
Shaun Greenhalgh, an Englishman whose furtive career has been unfolding in courtrooms, newspapers and museums for the last three months, may well be the most versatile art forger in history.
In 2002, Dad dropped in to the Bolton Museum to ask whether anyone would like to see a 20-inch-high Egyptian sculpture, which his […]
No Comments » - Posted in arts, news by Marty Finestone
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
yesterday was lego’s 50th birthday
Looks like I owe a happy belated birthday to Lego, which turned 50.
Lego A/S, Europe’s largest toymaker, commemorated the 50th anniversary of its interlocking plastic building bricks by re-introducing a set from five decades ago.
The Town Plan set, which contains 1,000 blocks and costs 1,199 kroner ($237), went on sale today along with a […]
2 Comments » - Posted in business, product by Marty Finestone
Monday, January 28th, 2008
change the margins - save the paper
changethemargins.com promotes the idea that if we reduce the margins in our Word documents we can save paper. Serious amounts of paper. Good Magazine puts it nicely and bluntly:
…changing their margins from the current luxurious standard 1.25 inches to a the more modest .75 inches. It may sound like a small change, but if everyone […]
1 Comment » - Posted in green, thinking by Marty Finestone
Monday, January 28th, 2008
remember website styles of the 90’s? they are not exactly gone
According to this rant in the January ‘08 issue of I.D. Magazine, 90’s style websites (lots of colour, flashing text) just might be the object of desire, again. Can it be true that some are nostalgic for the old days of web design?
Remember what the early web looked like? If you’ve forgotten, you could use […]
No Comments » - Posted in culture, design, this can't be by Marty Finestone
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
meet vampire weekend
Vampire Weekend are an up and coming indie group that you may want to get familiar with. Check out the video below for a taste of their sound and some interview bits (I’ve been using bits a lot lately, I wonder if there is something behind that) too!
via Stereogum
No Comments » - Posted in music by Marty Finestone
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
jens lekman’s ’sipping on sweet nectar’
Here is a retro-lounge sounding catchy pop number from Swede Jens Lekman. A groovy track, and a soaring video, to get you going this weekend.
No Comments » - Posted in music, video by Marty Finestone
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
can a convicted killer become a doctor in sweden?
Last summer, Karl Helge Hampus Svensson, 31, was among the 180 students admitted to the freshman class after receiving top grades in high school and courses he took online over the previous six years.
But last fall, institute officials received two anonymous letters claiming that Svensson had been a Nazi sympathizer who was paroled from a […]
No Comments » - Posted in thinking by Marty Finestone
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
brewers launch high-end beer to compete with wine
I am not so sure if a latest trend in beer brewing will catch on. As hinted in the title, brewers are launching higher-end beer products to compete with wine as a dinner drink (not that beer does not already accompany many, many, many meals). The twist here is the gourmet target. As Bloomberg reports, […]
No Comments » - Posted in food by Marty Finestone
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
estonia fines a man for cyber warfare
A 20-year-old ethnic Russian man is the first person to be convicted for taking part in a “cyber war” against Estonia.
Dmitri Galushkevich was fined 17,500 kroons (£830) for an attack which blocked the website of the Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip.
The assault, between 25 April and 4 May 2007, was one of a […]
No Comments » - Posted in news, tech(ish) by Marty Finestone
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
the new bond movie is called…
Quantum of Solace. Interesting choice. One the one hand it seems rather intelligent and less cartoony or uninspired as other Bond titles, read: The World is not Enough. Thus, the new title embodies the rather more adult direction that Bond is taking from Casino Royale forward. What I do not like about this title is […]
2 Comments » - Posted in movie by Marty Finestone
Friday, January 25th, 2008
some steven wright
Steven Wright is one funny man. Perhaps you have heard of him and perhaps you have not. That, my friends, is immaterial. What matters is you take a moment to enjoy some of his funny stuff. Oh, and he has a new comedy album out, ‘Steven Wright‘. Click the link in the preceding sentence to […]
No Comments » - Posted in laugh laugh by Marty Finestone
Friday, January 25th, 2008
10 ways to excite hot chocolate
No Comments » - Posted in advice, food by Marty Finestone
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
al-qaeda is conducting online surveys
The Associated Press, via the Globe and Mail, reports that Al-Qaeda looking for feedback on its website.
Al-Qaida’s media arm, Al-Sahab, announced in December that al-Zawahri would take questions from the public posted on Islamic militant websites and would respond “as soon as possible.”
More than 900 entries — many with multiple questions — were posted on […]
No Comments » - Posted in this can't be by Marty Finestone
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
israel is a testing ground for the electric car
As the International Herald Tribune reports things are brewing in Israel to test not the electric car per see, but the mass consumption of the electric car.
The idea, said Shai Agassi, 39, the software entrepreneur behind the new company, is to sell electric car transportation on the model of the cellphone. Purchasers get subsidized […]
No Comments » - Posted in business, science, tech(ish) by Marty Finestone
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
feist’s ‘i feel it all’
Way back when, I asked in this post if you know from Feist. Well now Leslie Fiest is quite well known. But I digress - anyways, here is her latest video for the single ‘I Feel It All’ off of the album The Reminder.
No Comments » - Posted in music, video by Marty Finestone
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
brand new cadillac - the CTS Coupe
At this year’s North American International Autoshow in Detroit, Cadillac unveiled the CTS Coupe Concent, which is a gorgeous piece of machinery. Below is a video of the car’s reveal (which could have done without the pseudo soul singing).
No Comments » - Posted in design by Marty Finestone
Monday, January 14th, 2008
wallpaper’s design awards
Wallpaper magazine has put together a world-savvy committee of judges to select it’s 2008 Design Award winners. But enough about that, on to some of the winners:
Winners – International Judges’ Awards:
Best New Hotel: Riva Lofts, Florence
Best New Public Building: New Museum, New York, by SANAA
Best Fashion Collection: Jil Sander, autumn/winter 2007
Best New Grooming Product: TweezLight […]
1 Comment » - Posted in architecture, arts, design by Marty Finestone
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
sarkozy is losing the love of the french
Bloomberg reports that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is starting to lose favour with the French public in light of his recent public love life. Sarkozy’s approval rate is at an all time low since he took office.
France’s politicians, including former presidents Jacques Chirac and Francois Mitterrand, traditionally have been discreet about such matters. Since […]
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