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Why I Make My Friends Drink Bottled Water (And Other Inconvenient Stuff) (Some Have Hats)

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:57:03 GMT

The following fun facts just showed up in my e-mailbox, and since I was taught to share: Did you know that the Live Earth concert to "save the planet" released more Co2 into the atmosphere than every SUV in America?...

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New Poems (Brit Lit Blogs)

no-reply@britlitblogs.com (3:AM Magazine) — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:03:25 GMT

New Poems By Jack Brewer, Thurston Moore, Matthew Wascovich. A LASTING THOUGHT FOR A DYING CELL I remember counting on you to count on me when I never did. You live the earth like cows in pasture, obey your hunger like dog to master. Waiting and wondering about an alternative that never was. Who needs a cause? Live and live and die and learn. But for what? The past did clash but it's no surprise-...

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Metallica Drummer Bitch Slaps Mother Earth (TMZ: Video Player)

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT

He rocked out at Live Earth last year, but Lars Ulrich isn't making great strides to be more eco-friendly in his everyday life.

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Fun with Links on Saturday Morning (The Disney Blog)

Sat, 10 May 2008 12:26:43 GMT

The Pixar Blog has more high quality screencaps from WALL-E. Click on each picture for the large (desktop image size) image. The excellent Twitter and Live Earth Maps mashup Twisney is getting hailed as a prime example of new citizen journalism by none less than the Wall Street Journal. Way to go Scott! The Social Media [...]

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Dublin on Live Earth (The Story)

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:34:08 GMT

After Cork, Carlow, Navan, Galway and Waterford were added in March, it appears Dublin has now been added for high res aerial photography on Microsoft's Live Maps. Here is the Custom House in Dublin: (Looking North) The Spire on O’Connell Street: (Looking East) And of course: Gangster Central (Looking East) I wonder what Dubs like Twenty Major [...]

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Microsoft Releases "Pro Photo Tool" for Metadata Editing (The Road to Know Where)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:50:54 GMT

Pro Photo Tools allow you to add, change, and delete common metadata properties for digital photographs. You can place photos on the Live Earth map and then drag them to the right location. The GPS information will be stored back into the photos. If you have a GPS device, can load track route files from the most popular formats (NMEA, GPX, and KML) and see them on the map. Then you can place your...

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Live Earth '08 Announced, Makes You Vote (CB Music)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:58:20 GMT

Instead of major stadiums, this year's event will take place on various U.S. college campuses and promises that each Democratic and Republican schmuck, I mean, nominee chosen by then will speak on the issue of going green since organizers feel it has been absent from presidential debates. But so has all hope. I don't see any concerts being put together for that

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Universty of Aberystwyth and Microsoft Live Earth (MSDN Blogs)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:15:00 GMT

I'm visiting the University of Aberystwyth later this week and was just checking the university website out for the location maps and I'm really pleased to see that Aberystwyth uses Microsoft Live Earth for its maps. Not only that but the university has done some really interesting stuff with the Campus maps and pictures of the buildings, take a look: http://www.aberystwyth.ac.uk/en/maps/penglais/...

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Rebecca Walsh: Skeptics on warming find a home (Salt Lake Tribune)

walsh@sltrib.com (Rebecca Walsh / Tribune Columnist) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:17:33 GMT

Earth Week at the Sutherland Institute is a lot like anti-Earth Week. An oxymoron. Like saying, "environmentalist Mike Noel." The conservative think tank is commemorating Green Week with four days of science-baiting, pro-nuclear energy, global warming-doubting workshops.

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Two options for environmentalists: fascism or capitalism (Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:05:43 GMT

Its Future is in our Hands - Live Earth by aussiegall (Flickr) If you want to help this planet's environment, you have two options: fascism or capitalism. Sort of puts the hippies in a pickle, as they hate both. But it's simple: you can proscribe earth-saving technologies and practices (fascism), or you can allow [...]

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Are big high-tech companies green hypocrites? (InfoWorld)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:21:58 GMT

Green sells, whether the product in question is a hybrid car or a laptop computer. Tech firms know this. Apple has a "My Greener Apple" campaign -- lauded as a huge success among ecology-conscious Apple customers. Microsoft boosted its green image last year when it sponsored Live Earth, a series of concerts dedicated to combating climate change. Larry David and Cheryl Hines of the HBO series Curb...

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Al Gore says laws must change (Raw Story)

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:50:15 GMT

AL GORE wants to make a sequel to his Oscar-winning documentary on global warming and despite Earth's rising fever he is still hopeful for a happy ending. We are, he says, all players in deciding the outcome. Despite the success of his film An Inconvenient Truth and last year's Live Earth concerts in raising awareness, the former US Vice President believes little has changed where it counts and...

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Green Beat: Will the Rothbury Festival Outdo Live Earth? (VF Daily)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:12:41 GMT

We are past this awareness stage, says Rothburys director, Jeremy Stein. People are numbing out to it.

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BBC RAPPED FOR LIVE EARTH EXPLETIVES (PR-Inside.com Entertainment News)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:59:37 GMT

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been reprimanded for the foul language of stars including MADONNA and comedian CHRIS ROCK at last year’s (07) Live Earth concert. The U.K.’s TV watchdog Ofcom ruled the network was wrong for allowing "the most offensive language" to be aired before the 9pm watershed at the London leg of the [...]

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Rebecca Walsh: Utah's flat tax falls flat on its promises (Salt Lake Tribune)

walsh@sltrib.com (Rebecca Walsh / Tribune Columnist) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:55:30 GMT

Utah's flat tax was going to do so many things: Nine out of 10 Utahns would pay less. The state would become the Ireland of the Intermountain West - a chugging little engine surrounded by stagnant economies.

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Ofcom Raps BBC Over Live Earth Swearing (Net News Publisher)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:59:00 GMT

Last summer’s Live Earth concerts turned out to be controversial not only for the nature of the BBC’s coverage (judged by some to be non-partisan though that’s a whole separate debate), but also for the amount of swearing that was clearly audible during some of the daytime coverage of the concert. Separate from the Ofcom ruling [...]

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Madonna - Bbc Rapped For Live Earth Expletives (Contactmusic Ltd)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:59:38 GMT

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been reprimanded for the foul language of stars including MADONNA and comedian CHRIS ROCK at last year's (07) Live ...

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Ofcom: Too Much Earthiness On "Live Earth" Broadcast (Media Law Prof Blog)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:25:24 GMT

Watchdog agency Ofcom informed the BBC that it should have toned down the language of some of the celebrities who appeared on the Live Earth concert broadcast last summer. Madonna, Phil Collins and others used the F word, which is...

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Ofcom penalizes BBC for use of profanity (International Herald Tribune)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:52:04 GMT

The use of bad language by Madonna and Phil Collins at the Live Earth concert was "both likely and foreseeable," Ofcom said.

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BBC To Apologise For Swearing Celebrities At Live Earth Concert (Sky News)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:47:05 GMT

The BBC has been ordered to apologise for broadcasting foul language at a time when millions of young people were watching.

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