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Cheap E-Way
Cheap E-Way
Ways to save and cut back
Most of this is logical (hopefully), but in a tight economy, there are many ways that people can save their money and cut back.
Write-Off
Register a small business. Do it.…
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Peri-Urban Farming
50% of the world’s population lives in cities.
800 million people are involved in urban agriculture world-wide and contribute to feeding urban residents.
Low income urban dwellers spend between 40% and 60% of their income on food each year.
By 2015 about 26 cities in the world are expected to have a population of 10 million or more. To feed a city of this size – at least 6000 tonnes of food must be imported each day. -
Great CD Artwork
I am sure we all can recall a time when one of the best part of buying a CD was ripping the plastic, and opening the album artwork to see the credit, the pictures, lyrics, etc. That was a personal feeling and connection between the purchaser and the artist; which gave the CD far more relevance than the audio on the optical disk could ever have.
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tan(008) – Medicine Toast with the Green
My gripe with this policy may be biased; especially since I did not have a chance to utilize the ‘luxury’ of a shorter walk to the grocery stores. I wonder what would happened if anyone parked a non-hybrid vehicle in those spots – what is the worse that could happen? Its not like these spots hold the same weight as disabled parking spots – as you can actually get a real, expensive ticket for illegally parking there. I will test out the theory.
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tan(005) – Manually syncing iTunes in a protest to protect the State
Meaning, that nations will only sacrifice the lives of their own soldiers if it will return a benefit for them – they will go into Iraq because of the vast resources of oil, but they won’t go into places like the Sudan where genocide is going on for years, because there is NO investment on their return
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Wk in Nerban’s Tech: Google Earth Thugs, Twitter on the High
Google Earth Thugs, Twitter on the increase, f-bomb video game on the Wii!
Week in Nerban’s Tech March 21, 2009
House of Dead says f-word more than any other video game
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10198183-62.html- What makes this a story…
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Nerban’s week in Tech 2009-03-15
Web turns 20, Venezuelan cell phone for $14
The Web turns 20
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10195512-60.html- Look how far we have gone since 1989, all thanks to our demand for porn
Venezuelan cell phone for $14
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Alternate iPhone App Stores
For all those that have jailbreaked iPhones and want to explore the further capabilities of their device, check out:
http://www.touchmyapps.com/
More and more of these stores are appearing to loosen Apple’s monopoly on the control of applications, and to increase the amount of applications that are available, but have been refused entry into Apple’s iTunes store.
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Nerban’s week in Tech – Google domination and $99 iPhone
I know you all are digging the dope retro technology picture. Anyhow, this week in technology for the Nerban sees an affordable iPhone, and Google’s continued pursuit of world domination. I said it once, and I will say it again, Google offers the best services for the web (email, search, google docs), but Google is essentially an advertising service for companies – they offer free products, and slap adsense wherever possible. Twitter, take note, as you may need a business model soon, anyway, here are the best links
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A look @ the Pre
However, with an expected retail value of $399; in this recession, Palm will have an uphill battle trying to win consumers from opting with the iPhone 3G at $199 and the Blackberry Bold & Storm at a similar price.
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Ads are now watching You
automatically measure the effectiveness of the advertisements we can put a camera and PC nearby, and by using the image from the camera we can estimate how many people are looking at the monitor.” With facial recognition technology, the system can detect how many people are actually engaged with the advertisement;