High school volunteering

I don't know about you but the extent of my High school volunteering was food shelters and car washes for the sports team. I recently met a young woman who got involved with a program selling jewelry to raise money for medical expenses of a mexican village. And she's working to spread the word to other schools yet she's only a senior. How cool is that?

http://www.chiapasproject.org/

SC Toxic

Nuclear waste dump sites are in short supply across the US. I suspect real-estate developers are eager to clean up South Carolina and care less about the Nevada dessert.

 

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South Carolina nuclear landfill closing. Starting next summer, many power plants, hospitals, universities and companies in 36 states will be forced to store low-level radioactive waste, because a South Carolina landfill is closing its doors to them. At issue is the Barnwell County dump site, a 235-acre expanse that opened in 1971. The equivalent of more than 40 tractor-trailers full of radioactive trash from 39 states was buried there each year before South Carolina lawmakers in 2000 ordered it to scale back, because they no longer wanted the state to be a national dumping ground. As of July 1, the landfill will take waste only from South Carolina and the two states with which it formed a partnership, New Jersey and Connecticut.

 

Source: November 2, The Associated Press

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/11/02/1102nuclearwaste.html

 

 

 

How about some bad design

This is a fun site that focuses on some examples of poorly designed systems. Some improvement ideas are solid, and some could be refined a bit more.Either way, this website is crack for designers. It’s like the Jerry Springer effect: you just feel better knowing that your designs aren’t on this site.

 

http://www.baddesigns.com/

 

 

Artist of the Month

Linzie Hunter, UK Illustrator, kicks ass. Here’s some proof:

http://www.linziehunter.co.uk/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/linzie/

 

Dolphin Slaughter Going on Now

Interesting event …

http://www.savejapandolphins.org/captiveIndustry.html

 

I wonder if we are being a bit harsh on the Japanese because our society portrays dolphins as more heroic animals than cows. Damn you flipper!

 

opinion-data-perception

Anyone want to play a round of opinion-data-perception?

 

This is a great observation:

http://gotboondoggle.blogspot.com/2005/10/game-of-rock-paper-scissors.html

 

 

 

White Collor Scandal

I just read the following paragraphs in AdAge. Is this worthy of US Weekly?

 

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One exhibit attached to the lawsuit is an image of tennis star Maria Sharapova allegedly taken by Mr. Shigeta during a 2004 commercial shoot for Dentsu client Canon. Ms. Sharapova is pictured with her legs propped up on the back of a director's chair exposing her panties as she snacks on what appears to be a can of Pringles. Mr. Biegel is claiming that Mr. Shigeta's crotch obsession led him to pass the photo around and is part of a pattern of behavior that created a hostile work environment that led him to complain. He was fired in November 2006.

Also included in the complaint is a link to a website for a Czech whorehouse. The internet home of Prague's Escade describes its services in a version of English reminiscent of Borat. Sample: "Young strippers and their performance will make you (sic) evening enjoyable." Another: "If you want to choise (sic) yourself, just call us and we take care of you. If you buy lady-companion for all night, we'll surprise you by an interesting discount." Also available is an interactive, panoramic view of the premises.

Mr. Biegel claims he and another employee were duped by Mr. Shigeta into visiting Escade but that he didn't sleep with a prostitute there despite Mr. Shigeta's efforts to pair him up.

 

http://adage.com/article?article_id=121698