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HDPE Lowdown

Another post for the environment – yeah!

When you think of recycling HDPE (High Density Polyethylene – but you knew that), you probably think of all the plastic that you can you can throw into your recycle bin. But that’s not all there is to it. Some HDPE, such as Virgin HDPE Granules is repurposed before it even gets used. Virgin HDPE comes from scrap plastics left over from the production of many different items. This plastic is called virgin because it was never used or abused and doesn’t have the colors or wear and tear (including possible contaminants) of plastics recycled after their lifetime of service. This is pure, clean plastic that takes color well and can be used for any type of production.

That’s not to suggest that your dutifully recycled HDPE isn’t useful or good – it’s still excellent for many uses – so don’t stop recycling it. It’s just nice to know that a recycled motor oil container won’t be holding your Diet Coke tomorrow. At least I think it’s nice to know. What it will be is possibly a grocery bag or outer packaging material or … well, there are too many to list. So now you know. Just because your recycled plastic may not be “virgin” any longer, it’s still a good time.

Filed under: Editorial,Home Stuff — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 5:02 pm
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Holy Crap, Batman!

Vampire stars, no less. And here I was blaming it all on the prospect of gay marriage.

I’m going to have to stop getting my science news from religious fundamentalists.

Filed under: browsing,Editorial,Space — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 4:13 pm
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Merry Pr0nMas

How utterly unappealing. Aka how to make even free pr0n undesirable. Mind you, I have nothing against Plus Sizes.

fat gallery old porn
fat ugly porn
fat old man porn
nasty fat porn
porn woman with fat ass

It’s like I’m being spammed by the antichrist.

Filed under: Editorial,Review — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 5:11 pm
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Giving Porn a Bad Name

Who suspected those nice pronographers would ever do something as underhanded as this? And to FaceBook? This is not MySpace, Buster, so take your feely cracking elsewhere.

Seriously, this for-profit hacking is not hacking at all. What do we learn from their efforts to break in? Only that people are greedy and greedy people suck. Teh loosers.

Filed under: Bookmarking,Editorial,Evil,internet,web2.0 — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 6:15 pm
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Viral Politics

Clearly this is not your common cold. Who’s with me in believing that our next president will be a virus? They’re obviously much smarter than the one we have now and they will make war a lot less expensive. The next military industrial complex will focus on producing tissue, vapor rub and decongestants to sell to our enemies at back-breaking prices.

Mind you, this is my Optimistic view of the future. In the real future, they’ll just say screw it and kill us all.

Have a nice day.

P.S. Notice how I restrained myself from any mention of the fact that this strain of super cold chose a military base to attack? Biological warfare is such a myth.

Filed under: Conspiracy,Editorial,news — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 7:27 pm
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Chupacabra Ad Servers

It’s been a few minutes since my last Conspiracy Theory posts, so I naturally couldn’t resist this bit of the news.

Honest to Google, the first thing I thought was “Wow, who would benefit from making ad serving so dangerous? Now, webmasters will have to go through ‘highly trusted’ ad servers like those Google could provide … Wait a minute!”

Now before you think I’ve finally gone the way of the UFO abductionists, think about the Big G’s latest bitch slap to every site that dared to run text link ads that were not Google’s. I say if it walks like a Chupacabra and sucks blood like a Chupacabra, it’s a Chupacabra.

Filed under: Editorial,Evil,internet,news,search — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 5:53 pm
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Better Not Be the Robot

Nerds program a robot to dance … now that is news. How did they know where to begin? Pray god not their old “Thriller” videos. This is like a train wreck. You have to see it no matter how horrifying it is.

I say anything we can make more human-like, the better. And if they follow Asimov’s Three Laws at least we’ll have some decent human-like behavior in the world again. It’s been far too robotic or at the other extreme, animalistic, for some time now.

Filed under: browsing,Editorial,Gadgets,news — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 12:21 pm
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Food For Thought

This stands as the coolest idea evar, but what, this is only the new millennium?

Put your brain and your insatiable hunger for games to good use by helping to provided food for those who have real insatiable hunger. This is so simple … hey, maybe it’s what Google had planned for their ads in video games. And All this time I was insulting them and their charitable intentions.

Gak! (Sorry just choked on my bitter bitter laughter.) Off to play FreeRice.

Filed under: A Short Review,Editorial,internet,news,Review — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 10:17 am
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OLPC Rocks

Now if this doesn’t get you behind the One Laptop Per Child program you’re extremely cold-hearted and evil and/or you work for Microsoft, Google or the RIAA.

Look at those faces. Man, the world just opened up for those kids and they’ll even see their own little chunk of it in a different light. This is one of the coolest projects of the millennium.

Filed under: Editorial,Evil,Gadgets,internet,news — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 12:17 am
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Touchdown

Excellent return! Seeing these babies land never fails to give me a happy chill of excitement.

The International Space Station should be about ready to take on tourists any day now (I wish) and, no matter how much I write ads about Florida vacations, this is my dream destination. Well, as long as it included a trip to the Moon in there. Although it would be nothing like the roomy berth on the station, I could rough it for a couple of days in a module.

Filed under: Editorial,Space — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 11:20 pm
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