“You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.”
The Story of Stuff is a “tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of our use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.”
If you haven’t seen it,
That’s part 1 of 6.
I don’t know who Rob Gruhl is, but he seems to at least have some good things to consider regarding buying a car. A lot of people not agreeing with some of the things he suggests, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if many of these folks are in the car sales industry.
[Update 08-16 - Wired has written a similar article]
Just one of the revelations from the article:
In a paper for the British Journal Of Sports Medicine last year, Dr Craig Richards, a researcher at the University of Newcastle in Australia, revealed there are no evidence-based studies that demonstrate running shoes make you less prone to injury. Not one.
Regardless of whether or not you fully buy into to everything in the article, it seems fairly certain that you don’t need the most expensive or fanciest shoes to help you out. Save some money and start getting more mid-range shoes.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-free-financial-software-alternative-to-quicken/
[from makeusof.com]
From Lifehacker:
Floola, the go-anywhere, no-iTunes-required iPod manager, has updated with some nifty new features, including the ability to natively sync your Google Calendars to your iPod.
We’ve been into Floola for some time now, ever since discovering that it was the ultimate solution for adding music and movies to your iPod from any computer, whether or not you were down with iTunes. The latest versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux (GTK2 required) add Google Calendar importing, plus a few bug fixes and optimizations sprinkled throughout.
iTunes-like music player, but open-source and lots of free extensions like Firefox.
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