Archive for October, 2007



The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If you see her turning clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain. If you see her turning anti clockwise the you favour your left brain.
Most people see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you […]

Scoopit was a good idea … not a new idea but a good idea. It’s a useful aggregation of news stories that scoopit users think are important or newsworthy. That’s the idea at least, and that was the way it worked for the first few months but now unfortunately it is being abused.
The tagcloud […]

Be The Change


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It’s like facebook or bebo for climate change …
Be The Change

Want to help us keep our oceans safe for all the whales?
Become a Whale Defender.

Follow the migration of the humpback whales from the Pacific to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. You can help stop whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in the name of “scientific research” and fundraise to help Greenpeace make our oceans […]

Whales must not be allowed to die in the thousands for needless, discredited “research,” and Greenpeace is satellite tracking whales in the Southern Ocean to prove it.
The Great Whale Trail You can plot their progress on a google map.

The internet map


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The Dimes Project provides several excellent data sets that describe the structure of the Internet. Using their most recent city edges data (Feb 2007), someone has created a set of visualizations that display how cities across the globe are interconnected (by router configuration and not physical backbone). In total, there are 89,344 connections. There’s more […]

Great spoof from Greenpeace USA …

The corporate braumeisters of Anheuser-Busch have let genetically engineered rice contaminate their Budweiser beer, independent laboratory testing has revealed. Tests show rice used in Anheuser-Busch’s east coast US breweries is contaminated with genetically engineered rice varieties outlawed in most of the world.
Sign the petition

YouTube - Wassup with your beer?

This is a great expose on the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) greenwash scam. A must read with wider application for other environmental issues and how industry uses PR to greenwash itself.
An abridged extract from Bob Burton’s Inside Spin: The dark underbelly of the PR industry.
A hallmark tactic of activist campaigns in the 1960s and […]

Seems the United Nations has been sucked in by the hot air rising out of the beehive.
They have announced that New Zealand has been chosen to host World Environment Day 2008.
The focus of the event will be on solutions and opportunities for countries, companies and communities to make the transition to a low carbon […]

Chris Slane’s Editorial Cartoons: Carbon Trading In NZ
Carbon Trading In NZ




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