creepy

This creeps me out. I don't want to be uncritically anti-Chinese products, but there's some serious accountability problems going on over there. Needless to say, I don't think it's just Chinese products that we need to worry about. I don't drink water from local streams, so I guess I should be skeptical about ALL products. Thanks to this article, I am now paranoid.

e-waste

Today, I think one of the grossest environmental problems is the amount of electronic gadgets we dump into landfills. That stuff is nasty: electronics are full of lead, mercury and other toxic substances. This week's Technology Quarterly in the Globe (how boring am I) is all about the "greening" of the information technology industry. Very substantially, the issue largely avoids the oh so tired flower-power politics of the environment and instead focuses on health, energy saving and the financial benefits of going green.

Anyway, if you're looking to get rid of e-quipment without poisoning land and water for future generations here are some urls for recycling your computer.

www.hp.ca/recycle
www.dell.com/assetrecovery
www.apple.com/environment
www.rebootcanada.ca
www.littlegeeks.org

martyloo

The martyloo.com domain was silently dropped from blogger.com 2 minutes ago (intentionally) and will be used for other purposes... This blog is simply reverting back to http://martyloo.blogspot.com. If you didn't even know I was in possession of martyloo.com, don't worry about it.