Shakey Shakey
I've shaken things up in the links that I have over on the side. This may mean little to nothing to you, but I actually use those links and they represent stuff that I check up on. I've added Dooce back in and also Girl named Bob. Now that a month has passed, they aren't freaking out about the election. Dooce has a little girl also, and I find it comforting to read that when she tells her daughter that her misbehavior is unnecessary, the lil tot claws at her face. I'm no sadist, it's just that Nina will lightly smack herself in the face when we tell her no.

Christian Finnegan is back in, but most of what he does is just promotions of what he's about to appear in. It was his addiction to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that got him back in. That and the Christmas photo.

I also added Beautiful Vacuum and Wednesdays Off, which I don't know much about the people, but they write well. I didn't re-add Wendy Darling, as she has stopped writing since she doesn't need to get fired from her movie gig because she talks about how Napoleonic Seth Green is.

Hey, do they have a Greg the Bunny DVD set?

You Beauty, You
Some of my favorite links over there are Hanzi Smatter, MoCoLoco, Gizmodo, and Daily Dinosaur. All are impersonal blogs however. Hanzi Smatter is dedicated to interpreting Chinese character tattoos that mean horrible things usually. My favorite is "The sun rises and the sun sets, but this boy is still ugly." MoCoLoco is modern contemporary design stuff. Gizmodo is new gadgets. And Daily Dinosaur is a minimalistic comic strip.

I'm also fond of Bevnet, but it makes me pine for sodas that I don't have access to. I want some Blenheim 1903 Hot Ginger Ale. And some Afri-Kola. And some Pepsi Holiday Spice, dangit. They shouldn't advertise that stuff it they won't sell it in our region.

Pointy Pointy Pointy Pointy
Meta-Efficient and Treehugger are about to get ditched. While I was thinking Meta_Efficient would be about, oh, being efficient. Say, like things are in China where you buy tea leaves and have a specialized cup for making hot tea with those leaves, rather than the US way where the leaves are ground, put in a little bag, with a staple, with a string, another staple, and a printed card.

Nope, Meta-Efficient is about buying electronic watering systems for your houseplants, wool jodfers, and today, it's LED Christmas lights.

Treehugger is worse. It's not just that they have double standards where they embrace a walnut tray as ecologically correct since it doesn't use plastic, then praise a plastic ice cream maker for not chopping down trees. But they also just don't make any sense.

Let me let you in on a secret. Money is Environment. If your car costs $45,000 to make, then it was $45,000 worth of energy required to make it. The workers ate food, drove their cars to the plant, the lights were on, ore was harvested, etc. Cost is cost. It's misleading to imply that using electricity as a fuel is better environmentally, as that coal you harvest is strip mined and burned to add sulfur, CO2, etc, to the atmosphere. And I know you aren't nukin' for that electricity. That's the biggest enviro-lobby there is.

You wanna be enviro-good? Put yourself on a strict budget. Buy only what you need. Is is mere enviro to fix a broken thing or replace it? Depends, which costs more. Do the cheapest.

It's definitely true that a 1978 Oldsmobuick is more environmentally better than a new Civic Hybrid. The Civic required lots of extra work: heavy metal mining, lots of new plastics, and disposing of those batteries is going to be horrible. The Oldsmo was made ages ago. The pollution it caused during manufacturing is already over. Sure, it burns more gas. But how many years until it burns the price of the Honda?

Wow, that rant just came on out.

In any case, you can't be more efficient by buying new Christmas lights. You can't be more environmentally sound by buying a walnut tray.

And I didn't even comment on Treehugger's infatuation with Green Celebrities. (barf)
- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 9:03 AM