- Kate Moss gets fonted. “It has a quirkiness and modernity because it’s almost geometric. It has a very modern feel, but also has heritage.” (via Silliman’s Blog, image from CR Blog)
- Sustainable underwater logging. A company harvests submerged trees, killed by 20th century dam projects but “preserved by the dark, oxygen-poor water.”
- Supermarket poetry. A guy called Zach Houston’ll type you a poem on a topic of your choosing while you shop at a Berkeley supermarket. (via Silliman’s Blog)
- Win tickets to the Live Earth show at Giant’s Stadium in New Jersey this June by making an enviro-conscious film using Vega4‘s song “Life is Beautiful” as the soundtrack. The band’s gonna be at the Hotel Cafe later this month –
- Know thy offset so you don’t inadverdently give your money to “oil companies that are simply pumping CO2 into oilfields to extract more oil. They would have done this anyway, so profits from selling the credits go straight into company coffers, with no benefit to new carbon-saving schemes.”

They do this type of logging in Lake Superior too.
The wood has the Stradavarian quality, enhanced by centuries of soaking in water. Very valuable for musical instruments.
Comment by amazingdrx — May 14, 2007 @ 8:50 am