| Most recent posts | | Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 3:07:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | Thanks for your MacOpinion article. I was unaware that the seal herds were growing or that the hunters did not club seals any longer. But I'm pretty certain the more noise and frothing at the mouth done by organizations, the more smoke and mirrors are involved. AFA leather products, I have wondered if saving a cow hide that will make ten (?) pairs of shoes that may last ten years each is not better than making millions of plastic shoes in Chinese factories so people will go to Wal-Mart and buy five pairs of those things a year. I suspect that Apple is as green as anyone else, and as you note, getting better at it. I wonder how many paper plates and plastic forks were used by environmental organizations last year. Do these organizations not use computers? Thanks for your continued common-sense approach.... | |
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| | | BSHS laptop plan to cost $1.4 million | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 1:05:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Corey Wood, right, director of the Big Spring Independent School District technology department, discusses plans to provide laptop computers to Big Spring High School students and teachers during the BSISD school board meeting Thursday night. (HERALD photo/Steve Reagan) By STEVE REAGAN Staff Writer Some potential problem areas still need to be smoothed over, but it appears that each student and teacher at Big Spring High School will be given a laptop computer starting next school year. .... | |
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| | | McConnell under pressure over Bute House video fiasco | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:17:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE trustees of Jack McConnell's official residence are to demand an explanation over the YouTube video scandal at Bute House. Insiders at Bute House Trust said they "expect to make representations" after friends of the First Minister's son filmed themselves swigging vodka and wearing clothes believed to belong to the McConnells. .... | |
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| | | Recycling electronic waste presents major challenges | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:28:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | It was as if a floodgate of memory, electronic memory, suddenly burst open. From out of closets, and from deep corners of basements, emerged the digital equivalent of a thousand Proust-like madeleine moments: old Commodore 64s with cracker crumbs in the keys, original IBMs with floppy disks but no hard drives, perfectly good but long dormant things called word processors. Even some Pong games have come mixed in among the 455 monitors, 300 central processing units, 205 printers and 55 laptops that have spilled onto the floor at the town dump here since the cutting-edge recycling program for electronics began in April. "This stuff has been in the basement for about eight years," Brad Hantverk, a Roslyn Heights dentist, said as he hauled from his trunk two monitors, a CPU, three VCRs, a scanner, two keyboards and a printer.... | |
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| | | Topshop boss defends Kate Moss signing | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:12:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | At Philip Green's offices they haven't got used to his recent knighthood. "If you go to the sixth floor, Sir Green will see you there," says the security guard. Green has two head offices, one for each of his companies: Bhs, in Marylebone Road, and one, for Arcadia, in Berners Street. We're meeting in the latter, home to the Topshop, Topman, Burton, Wallis, Dorothy Perkins, DH Evans and Miss Selfridge high street fashion chains. The entrance is low-key - no moody portraits of models - the lifts are cramped. Green is worth £4.9 billion, yet there are no lavish touches, no hint of ostentation. The furniture is black, comfortable but functional. There are black-and-white portraits of his wife, Tina, and teenage children Chloe and Brandon, a model of a Gulfstream jet, a large TV, some board games that look as through they've been borrowed from a store with the intention of being played one day, a Jo Malone scented candle, and that's it.... | |
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| | | Hispanic Center returns home | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:01:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | GRAND RAPIDS -- When the staff of the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan was forced to abandoned its headquarters in a deteriorating, century-old fire barn nine years ago, most never thought they would return. Which makes the fact that the agency is set to reclaim its former home next month in the refurbished building all the sweeter, Executive Director Emily Aleman said. "It was in terrible shape, and the unfortunate part is people still wanted to meet there and had to be turned away," Aleman said. "People loved that building." The red brick Engine House No. 12 at Grandville Avenue and Hall Street SW now has been gutted and transformed into another symbol of the revitalization of the Roosevelt Park neighborhood. The building's transformation comes after neighborhood association leaders spent a year and half raising $1.3 million for the project.... | |
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| | | Readers steer travel writer | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 1:01:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Two days before the end of the month, an out-of-state license plate, a mid-20s state trooper: I was speeding-ticket toast. When the blue lights started spinning, I was 20 minutes east of Council Grove, Kan., on a two-lane stripe through the prairie whose only other travelers - a pick-up-driving man and his shotgun-riding hound - had turned onto a dirt road 10 minutes before. And then, the all-night stomach distress, brought on by that lethal combination, TMB - too much barbecue - and TMD - too much driving. You'd think I'd be pretty well thrilled to turn my tail lights on Council Grove, population 2,275. But the domicile of my demise, to paraphrase the old Glen Campbell song, stays gentle on my mind. After 28 days of driving cross-country from Miami to Seattle late last summer - most of it solo - the town of Council Grove remains, oddly enough, one of my favorite stops, along with Nashville's Bluebird Cafe, Custer State Park in South Dakota and the view of Glacier National Park's Iceberg Lake 10 miles up the path from the Montana trailhead.... | |
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| | | Static MansionAt Lyttleton | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:10:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | ADAM WILLETTS (Auck) Making a rare Christchurch appearance on his way to the Lines of Flight festival in Dunedin, Auckland artist Adam Willetts will be piloting hacked electronics and a laptop through their own electromagnetic fields. http://adamwilletts.ethermap.org/ SEAN KERR (Auck) In Christchurch as one of the exhibiting artists in the Scape Biennial, artist and educator Sean Kerr's audio work has been heard in contexts as various as the exhibition Extended Play at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, as support for Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, and providing catwalk music for designer Nicholas Blanchett at Sydney fashion week 2000. He has curated, among other media and sound focused exhibitions, the sound series 'music for stairwell' for Artspace in 2003, and his ongoing series of generative live multi-user computer music environments has been included in Prospect 2004 at the City Gallery, Wellington, and the 2006 Sound/Bodies winter forum at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.... | |
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| | | Citywide Wi-Fi up for vote | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:01:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | RIVERSIDE: The Council is expected to consider an agreement that would allow Web access for free. 10:20 AM PDT on Saturday, October 14, 2006 By DOUG HABERMAN and DOUGLAS QUAN The Press-Enterprise Riverside would become home to AT&T's first citywide network providing free wireless Internet access under a five-year agreement set for City Council consideration Tuesday. The deal would cost the city $4 million over the five years if it buys all the services from AT&T it is contemplating. .... | |
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| | | Manse classics | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 11:02:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | Two of St. Paul's most attractive neighborhoods will hold home tours this month, giving the curious a chance to peek into Victorians, condos, carriage houses, bungalows and lofts in Summit Hill and St. Anthony Park. The Summit Hill Association's "These Old Houses" biennial tour will take place Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. and will feature 14 buildings, including homes and public spaces such as the University Club and the James J. Hill House. If you've ever wanted to peek inside a Summit Avenue or Crocus Hill mansion, this is your chance. While Summit Hill is all about old classics, St. Anthony Park is more bohemian chic. Located near the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus, it's got ivy and professors and an eclectic mix of housing. The St. Anthony Park Home Tour will be held Oct.... | |
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