- Death to the chip clip. A v. short YouTube video instructs you on how to fold your chip bag so you’ll never need those plastic clippy thingies again.
- Death of the water heater, as we know it, cuz a solar water bill in the state assembly would offer millions in incentives to install solar water heaters. “A residential solar water heating system can cost $4,000 to $6,000, but with the incentives proposed under Huffman’s bill, consumers could recoup their costs in less than 10 years through reduced gas bills.”
- Death of the desk — now replaceable with a windshield. If you have a desktop though, you need to be able to hang stuff from the ceiling…. Prolly not practical for most, as intact windshields aren’t all that easy to scavenge either. [image from Lifehacker]
- Death of the spelling bee. Okay not really. Better title: Spelling contests in nonalphabetic languages. Not everyone does spelling bees, but this Slate article spells out the details of some interesting language contests around the world.
