Geek Chic

Gawker just ran an article about Bottlemania — a new book about our overindulgence in bottled water over the last 20-odd years.  BAD NEWS.  The most shocking of the facts that they bring up — the cost of bottling, transporting and disposing of a single bottle of water is basically equivalent to filling that bottle 25% full of oil.

Maybe it’s time to just start filling up the ol Nalgene?

Not sure if this is an option for some (I know Morgan Hill, CA where I grew up had horrible drinking water), but I know New York tap water is seriously just as good as bottled water.  If not better than some (Yes.  I’m looking at you Dasani)

What with the fact that the price of oil being what it is these days (and the fact that, you know, plastic is a processed oil product), maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to ease off the Volvic?

Amazing. Jacob Seidelin took the data from the Radiohead House of Cards video (made using lasers and data points rather than filmed) and made a JavaScript based visualizer using the Canvas object.

Even if what I just said was all Greek to you (I barely understand it myself), you’ll have fun playing with the visualizer.  Check it out:

couresy of Jacob Seidelin via http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/radiohead-meets-javascript/

Thanks to Ajaxian for the link

I haven’t had enough coffee yet this morning to figure out exactly what that means, but the images are amazing:

from environmentalgraffiti.com

You can view the whole set on environmentalgraffiti.com

as always, love to FFFFound

from http://www.shibukei.com/photoflash/414/

Makes me wish I had a decent coffee shop around the ol’ workplace…

There are some pretty amazing photos coming back from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe.  Many, like this one, suggest there used to be a fair amount of water on Mars:

Photo: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

See the entire photo set here
Visit the ESA’s Mars Express website
Read about it on The Huffington Post

Sorry, that Apple rant took a lot out of me.  So I’m trying to make up for it by posting a few of my favorite videos from the past few months.  To make amends :)

It’s an oldie (in web land), but I love this video.