Weinstein Co. to Make Live-Action Fraggle Rock Movie |
hey this is pretty cool. A Fraggle Rock Movie? I hope they dont screw it up. Do you remember watching fraggle rock as a kid? It was a good show. If you want to take a trip down memory lane before the movie comes out check out this and others on youtube.
I am pretty sure this is not a real IKEA commercial and I am not sure if it is real at all but it is really funny. If you have a minute and want to see some creative commercials go to youtube and type in: funny ikea commercial and look around. There are a lot
Organic strawberries looked nice in February,” says Nancy Massotto, who runs a “green parenting” network in Caldwell, N.J. “But I’m not paying $6 for a pint when I’m paying $4 a gallon for gas.
Organic Stores Hurt By Rising Food Prices | Newsweek Project Green | Newsweek.com
This is a great article if you are a fan of misinformation with opinionated hatred for healthy eating sprinkled throughout. The issue is that this is not an editorial. It is supposed to be valid information. There is also a fairly heavy tone of disrespect for Whole Foods throughout, as if they are the only market that has organic and natural foods or that they set the prices for all stores. $7 for a gallon of organic milk? I pay $5. $6 for a pint of organic strawberries? Is that too much? If it was that much I wouldn’t eat strawberries! Why? Check it. It it worth eating conventional produce to save a buck or two? I don’t think so. By doing so you put unhealthy levels of chemicals and pesticides into your body. With escalating costs of health care and medicines, you will end up spending more on your unhealthy lifestyle, and that is not even taking into account what spraying pesticides like that does to the environment. With more companies producing organic products, I have noticed prices a little lower, not higher. When I compare prices for most of the products I buy, the difference is marginal. It usually ranges from $0.10 to $1 most of the time. If you are crunching your budget, you can concentrate on buying organic produce that is found to have the highest concentration of pesticides when produced conventionally and buy conventional produce with the lowest level of pesticides, if needed. Check this pocket guide out for more info.
Have you checked out Pandora.com yet? It is a website that allows you to create online radio stations based on artists that you like. It is a part of the Music Genome Project so it also puts other songs from related artists or song that you may like. Based on your ratings of the songs, it will change to your preferences. I have created two stations so far. Click on my profile and then choose the station you want to play on the left. BMartin Radio is a mix of jazz and Hip Hop. Jazz Etc. is pretty self explanatory. Check out my stations and if you create one of your own, leave me a link in the comments section of this post.
This is a link to my Real Estate Blog but I think the topic should be interesting to people here as well.
The city of Austin is introducing a program that they call “single stream” recycling. The program will be implemented in Fall ‘08. The city will deliver new 90 gallon bins to homes and the list of materials that will be accepted has expanded so now we will be able to recycle more of the products we use all in the same bin.
What goes in the recycling cart?
Paper: (newspaper, office paper, junk mail, cereal and soft drink boxes, corrugated cardboard)
Aluminum and metal cans: food cans (labels left on OK), soda cans Glass: Jars and bottles
Rigid plastics: # 1 through # 7, including yogurt and margarine tubs
What cannot be recycled? Plastic bags, Styrofoam (cups, egg cartons, take-out containers)
I think this is a big step in the right direction. The city of Austin is seen as a “green” city and these are the types of programs that enforce that reputation. If we can make it easier for people to recycle, what reason do they have to waste by just throwing recyclables in the trash? My wife and I recycle as much as we can and it really cuts down on the amount of trash we put in our bin. Since we will be able to recycle more products, the next step for the city should be to deliver smaller trash bins to encourage people even more to recycle. What do you think about this program? (via buy. lease. sell. invest. real estate. Austin)
Check out this interview. It is definitly worth the time it takes to read it. Then let me know what you think. 
I love the fact that these signs are all over Austin. They are much more interesting than most street signs.
The trio of Charlie Haden, Ethan Iverson, and Paul Motian plays at the Village Vanguard from May 6 to 12.
Wow… this is pretty cool. I have the pleasure of knowing Charlie personally and lately he has been touring primarily with his groups, Quartet West and Liberation Music Orchestra. Chances to see him in a trio like this have been rare lately. Those shows are going to be awesome. On Do The Math, there is a great interview that Ethan Iverson does with Charlie. Check the archive. It was posted a few weeks ago. It was pretty interesting for me because I had just finished transcribing some interviews for an upcoming documentary about Charlie. One of the interviews was with Ethan so it was interesting to transcribe Ethan talking about Charlie and then to hear the questions that he crafted for Charlie to talk about himself.
