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April 4, 2008

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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January 11, 2008

Yugo Buy This Car

Sweet. Looks like something I could use on the narrow-assed streets around here. Too bad it’s only available in India fer now.

Good gas mileage. No “features” I can’t add on for much cheaper myself. And $2500? Yeah, let’s see that hit the states any time soon. Maybe I’m just being cynical.


Filed under: Gadgets, Review, Editorial, Bookmarking, Home Stuff, news — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 9:27 am
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January 10, 2008

Pigs Pass On Glow

And I inherited my wings!

Beside the definite advantage of being able to easily find my pork chop in the disco, this is a cool way of following inherited traits. It’s certainly not boring (no pun there, please) and not a trait we can say developed naturally through evolution. Can’t blame it on the environment - oh, wait. It’s China. Perhaps we can.


Filed under: Editorial, browsing, news — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 6:28 am
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January 9, 2008

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: Editorial, browsing, Space — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 4:13 pm
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January 2, 2008

Use Your Wasted Space

… hunt aliens!


Filed under: Review, Editorial, links, internet — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 11:16 am
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December 23, 2007

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: Review, Editorial — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 5:11 pm
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December 17, 2007

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: Editorial, web2.0, internet, Bookmarking, Evil — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 6:15 pm
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December 13, 2007

Outpacing Evolution

I find this hard to believe since roughly 50 percent of the species still can’t remember to put down the toilet seat.

Hurry up evolution!


Filed under: Editorial — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 10:20 pm
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December 9, 2007

Go Oddessy Moon!

This is what I’m talking about. I’m behind this even if it is sponsored by Google … unless our future page rank will somehow determine if we’re worthy to visit the Moon ourselves.

Damn. Got to work on those backlinks.


Filed under: Editorial, Space — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 12:10 pm
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November 29, 2007

Attack Already!

Well … this is a big duh. (Translation: An obvious statement.)

My only question is why have they waited so damn long?


Filed under: Editorial, browsing, internet — <ADMINNICENAME> @ 9:44 pm
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