Sorry for that headline.
It's not what you think, but merely a media trick to get more folk reading... did it work?
I wasn't expletive deleting, but in writing that was reminded that it would be on the website, which has a rather over-enthusiastic 'swear filter' that takes out anything it think innocent eyes should be spared.
Anyway from yesterday's twitter surf RT/save collection, the dominant story that caught my eve had to be the boiler scrappage initiative introduced in Alistair Darling's pre-budget wassname.
About the only good thing there, as it's hard to find much else when 'we' owe' billions, if not more already.
But this one makes sense. Subsidy money is being given away left, right and centre, and this seems to be a rare 'win-win', with it going to reductions and efficiency increase, and hence lowered GHGs and reduced expenditure for those who can ill-afford it.
I just hope this government actually has the money to do it.
guardianeco - Boiler scrappage plan aims to help 125,000 householders http://bit.ly/86hFfZ - AIMS?
IndyPolitics - Boiler scrappage scheme unveiled http://bit.ly/7afmL7
hmtreasury - An extra 75,000 households will benefit from an extension of the Warm Front scheme #pbr09
MRW - Chancellor announces boiler scrappage scheme in Pre-Budget Report
I also was keen to crank an eyebrow here:
solarguy2034 - In Copenhagen, Stores Heat the Streets: To encourage Christmas shoppers, many stores in Copenhagen leave their .. http://bit.ly/6J8EeK as Junkk.com has noted, and suggested a response, more than once before.
Then there was this, for no better reason that on my last visit t'other day my Mum did not recognise me for 30 minutes:
jerryjamesstone - Scientists Working on Cure for Alzheimers Invent Self-Cleaning Solar Panels (Now Just Cure Alzheimer's Please) http://digg.com/d31CKxF?t - Amen
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
TWEET 'N LOWDOWN - Teetering Pedestals
Actually, more like a teetering tower... that of Babel.
This is my first 'round up' of yesterday's retweets.
Not sure it will work. There were so many.
Which at least serves for the point of this post.
I was once appalled to be in the midst of a council meeting where there were about twenty folk shouting the odds. Whatever the intention it was a total waste of time, effort and resources as nothing got agreed, or done.
I, and a few others there voluntarily did note that most 'officials' there were all on salary, plus expenses, whatever happened.
I can only imagine what it must be like with tens of thousands, all shouting, such that not only no one can hear each other, they but won't even bother listening.
All paid, or paid for. As are all those there to 'report' on it. Like they really care.
The planet, meanwhile, goes on, if perhaps with a tear in its eye.
If there were a few 'tweets' that stood out to me, it was these:
BBC_WHYS
Right we're on air. Do climate deniers deserve to be part of this discussion? - Nice of the BBC to ask, but who are 'they', and who are 'they' asking? Ed Miliband? Voltaire (possibly) rotates in his grave.
futerra
RT @thomsmith: How can we take climate change seriously when Richard "@virgindotcom" Branson is talking about space tourism? - More crucially, when some irony deficient MSM outfits run 'sombre' climate stories and then happily send their teams off to the mojave to film rockets that don't get airborne without some stuff out the exhaust.
guardianeco
Could you be the winner of the Fun Theory Award!? http://bit.ly/6CdlaB (from @ClimateSquad) - Hope so, as I have several entries in:)
And one more* that has now dropped off the archive, which rather makes me feel that RT'ing is a pretty short term, useless facility if you want to keep an archive record. So I think I'll give up on this before I end up a messy creek sans paddle.
Twitter is good for getting stuff in and as it happens. No more.
RT'ing might help keep others on one's journey in the loop and valuing what you come across, and takes seconds, so may be worth maintaining. I'll have to see how far back favourites goes (Encouraging. I went back over a few weeks over 50 pages with no 'limit', so that might mean they are all 'held' - it is also worth 'saving', too)
But mainly I think I'll just favourite the stories linked to on my browser so I don't lose them, and use the browsing history to blog from in future.
Sorry, twitter, it's just not going to work out as I'd hoped. At least like this.
*http://twitpic.com/snodu - In addition to the message being rather overshadowed by less than green messageboard materials, I do rather wonder what the awareness that is being raised here actually is.
This is my first 'round up' of yesterday's retweets.
Not sure it will work. There were so many.
Which at least serves for the point of this post.
I was once appalled to be in the midst of a council meeting where there were about twenty folk shouting the odds. Whatever the intention it was a total waste of time, effort and resources as nothing got agreed, or done.
I, and a few others there voluntarily did note that most 'officials' there were all on salary, plus expenses, whatever happened.
I can only imagine what it must be like with tens of thousands, all shouting, such that not only no one can hear each other, they but won't even bother listening.
All paid, or paid for. As are all those there to 'report' on it. Like they really care.
The planet, meanwhile, goes on, if perhaps with a tear in its eye.
If there were a few 'tweets' that stood out to me, it was these:
BBC_WHYS
Right we're on air. Do climate deniers deserve to be part of this discussion? - Nice of the BBC to ask, but who are 'they', and who are 'they' asking? Ed Miliband? Voltaire (possibly) rotates in his grave.
futerra
RT @thomsmith: How can we take climate change seriously when Richard "@virgindotcom" Branson is talking about space tourism? - More crucially, when some irony deficient MSM outfits run 'sombre' climate stories and then happily send their teams off to the mojave to film rockets that don't get airborne without some stuff out the exhaust.
guardianeco
Could you be the winner of the Fun Theory Award!? http://bit.ly/6CdlaB (from @ClimateSquad) - Hope so, as I have several entries in:)
And one more* that has now dropped off the archive, which rather makes me feel that RT'ing is a pretty short term, useless facility if you want to keep an archive record. So I think I'll give up on this before I end up a messy creek sans paddle.
Twitter is good for getting stuff in and as it happens. No more.
RT'ing might help keep others on one's journey in the loop and valuing what you come across, and takes seconds, so may be worth maintaining. I'll have to see how far back favourites goes (Encouraging. I went back over a few weeks over 50 pages with no 'limit', so that might mean they are all 'held' - it is also worth 'saving', too)
But mainly I think I'll just favourite the stories linked to on my browser so I don't lose them, and use the browsing history to blog from in future.
Sorry, twitter, it's just not going to work out as I'd hoped. At least like this.
*http://twitpic.com/snodu - In addition to the message being rather overshadowed by less than green messageboard materials, I do rather wonder what the awareness that is being raised here actually is.
Know that 'incentive' mantra I keep chanting?
Bottle Bank Arcade
Kudos to thefuntheory.com
Again.
Here are my entries as inspired by this:
www.thefuntheory.com/2009/12/03/reramid-chops
www.thefuntheory.com/2009/12/03/pepcycle
www.thefuntheory.com/2009/12/03/cullet-gullet-mill
www.thefuntheory.com/2009/12/03/madame-la-relotine
www.rolighetsteorin.se/2009/12/03/archies-magic-reounderbutt-augurs-well
(No idea why this last one seems to be a different URL)
Took a loooong while as I had upload issues and the system couldn't cope with my 'suite'* idea, but the organisers were very helpful.
Doubt they'll be in with much of a chance now as the competition closes soon, but at least they are now in.
*One to freak out the health and safety guys, but here goes.
It has always frustrated me that many public recycling facilities involve a dirty great (heavy) steel container that requires a big-engined, high-powered truck to haul away often only a few kilos of 95% fresh air surrounding a veneer of card, glass or metal.
They are also often smelly, and boring. And no one crushes waste bottles, cans, etc because they are already confused by a plethora of do’s and don’ts regarding what’s cool and/or not.
But one thing is clear: we need to get stuff as small in volume as possible to make the most of the logistics’ systems carbon footprint. This also tends to help with recycling anyway.
Then we need to make it so people a) want to do it so they try, and try again, and b) enjoy it so much they do it again and tell their mates. So… pretty much fun, then.
Any other advantages that roll along as a consequence we’ll take as plusses. On balance, win-win-win-win-etc
Hence…
RE:Gymberation RE:Spa Planet Fitness
We need venues. And where better than supermarket foyers or shopping centres, which would confer green kudos to savvy CSR marketers who can sweeten the extra traffic likely to be attracted by offering reward opportunities to those bring in the correct materials? Possibly consumers get to hand in waste in exchange for Junkk bonds to use on… eco purchases.
RE:Gymberation posits a ‘zone’, where by human energy is harnessed in the cause of greater fitness and… reducing recyclate volumes for transport.
All the shredding, smashing and/or flattening is done by one human power on a series of exercise devices that serve to not only dispose of waster materials, but in an entertaining manner.
Some could indeed be prone to misuse or vandalism – so possible solutions are sensors to divert metals or, more practically, human oversight, hence being located near staff, which also supports reward redemption. A few complementary freestanding systems are suggested, specific to particular recyclates.
What was weird is one submission included that had to be dropped (pix above), which had to be dropped:
The Whack a Can Pan – For Cans Or Cartons
INGREDIENTS
Based, almost identically, on either a fairground mallet and bell concept, or the ‘Whack-a-Mole’.
CONCEPT
The can or carton is introduced to be crushed by a wide head mallet, with the flattened result dropped into the receptacle below.
Here's why
How spooky is that? Annoyingly, it's a top 10 idea. He who hesitates - or has a less than compatible browser... is lost.
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