It's pervasive, persistent, produced from petrochemicals. It takes many forms and can be found as lightweight Styrofoam packaging, rigid polyvinyl chloride pipes, polyethylene water bottles, high-density polyethylene laundry and milk bottles, nylon ropes and nets and thousands of variations and applications. Look around you and count all the things made of drastic … [Read more...] about Drastic Plastic: What we learned about plastic pollution and Hawaii at the sixth International Marine Debris Conference
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NOTW: Museum of Failure, dirt brokers gone bad and the worst cocktail ever
TRY, TRY AGAIN Samuel West announced in April that his Museum of Failure will open in Helsingborg, Sweden, in June, to commemorate innovation missteps that might serve as inspiration for future successes. Among the initial exhibits: coffee-infused Coca-Cola; the Bic "For Her" pen (because women's handwriting needs are surely unique); the Twitter Peek (a 2009 device that does … [Read more...] about NOTW: Museum of Failure, dirt brokers gone bad and the worst cocktail ever
Maui County Council Budget and Finance Committee approves park concessions/naming rights bill
In his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace imagined a future in which everything corporations sponsored everything in society–including time itself. Numbered years gave way to the “Year of the Whopper,” “Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad,” “Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar” and so forth. It’s funny on its face, but given government’s increasing reliance on corporate … [Read more...] about Maui County Council Budget and Finance Committee approves park concessions/naming rights bill
NOTW: New WikiLeaks Merch, The Stupid Defense and Lobe Surgery
FUNDING THE REVOLUTION Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher of state secrets who remains holed up in the embassy of Ecuador in London, has signed on with an Icelandic licensing agent to sell Assange-branded high-end clothing, shoes and various household goods in India and much of Europe, and is negotiating to put his logo on apparel in Japan and the U.S. The agent told … [Read more...] about NOTW: New WikiLeaks Merch, The Stupid Defense and Lobe Surgery
NOTW: New WikiLeaks Merch, The Stupid Defense and Lobe Surgery
FUNDING THE REVOLUTION Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher of state secrets who remains holed up in the embassy of Ecuador in London, has signed on with an Icelandic licensing agent to sell Assange-branded high-end clothing, shoes and various household goods in India and much of Europe, and is negotiating to put his logo on apparel in Japan and the U.S. The agent told The … [Read more...] about NOTW: New WikiLeaks Merch, The Stupid Defense and Lobe Surgery