Video | Alphabet soup

“A Canadian filmaker travels to the north Pacific Ocean to discover a world of unknown plastic pollution.” Well, that’s what the video says at least, truth be told this videos’ message is much more important because this concrete issue has been so neglected till recently. There’s actually a shitload of waste, floating and sinking in the middle of the Pacific, and cleaning it up is nothing short of impossible. Had no idea that plasti dissolves so fast (due mainly to the sun and the salt in the water), had no idea that abundantly eating fish is, in a way, also eating my own trash. Length | 12: 49

Links: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” | Great Pacific Garbage Patch (W) | Ship pollution (W)

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Internet Altering the Way Our Brains Work
• [IT] Get the Green Web 3.0 Experience on Truevert (or how ‘green’ is raising the bar with semantic web)
• [Future] Police will use new device to take fingerprints in street
• [Nature] Bacteria Cause Old Buildings To Feel Off-color (a must-read for anybody in the construction business)
• [Politics] Atlas of hidden water may avert future conflict
• [Man-made] [Nature] How biometrics could change security (see the video)

ENTERTAINMENT

• F-f-freaks @ adg conference
• High Performance Fighter Uniform Can Stop Bleeding In 20 Seconds
• What Do We Have Here? TWINS? (lol celeb pics)
• 52 Epic Natural Wonders of the World
• Red Enhances Men’s Attraction To Women?…
• Obama and McCain – Dance Off!

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to perfect timing, or in my case chance & coincidence…pour me another one of those ‘CC‘s, please:)

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites (some of them are great!)
• [Eco] Linfen, China: The Most Polluted City in the World (6 short movies, 1 fucked-up city!)
• [Eco] Green Building Standards Under Construction
• [Health] ‘I’m going to die on Monday at 6.15pm’ (diary of a terminally ill woman who chose euthanasia)
• [Nature] 5 Really Weird Things About Water
• [Man-made] Shapeways Allows You to Materialize Any 3D Object, Star Trek Style (it’s no future, it’s the now!)
  

ENTERTAINMENT

• 6 Insane Sports That Could Be in the Next Olympics
• Gnarls Barkley – “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul?” (the song is only so so, the video bad as a mo-fo)
• Meet the Boy Too Big for His Mom’s SUV
• Six Amazing Hypermiling Videos (hypermiling – only in America!)
• Dirtsurfer Freestyle (just might be the next ‘it’ extreme-sports)
• Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes (for all the Kubrick fans, this is great stuff:))

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to self-awareness.

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(via: all the usual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Future water

A short docu about water quality in L.A. and the possible future importance of recycled waste water for human consumption.
Regarding this topic, the rest of the world would be just as clueless for a change. Scary stuff indeed!