What’s happening on January 18, 2010:
Good morning! And welcome to the most depressing day of the year. Equally depressing: the bad science behind the calculation of “Blue Monday”.
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Greenpeace has a basic illustration of which electronic gadget companies are greenest and which you should avoid. Looks like Nokia, Sony and Apple are in the lead.
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One more option for donating to the Haiti relief effort: a Pat Robertson voodoo doll on eBay.
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Apparently we’re paying too little for energy. The argument for making people pay critical-peak-pricing (where the price jumps drastically on days where we’re all blasting the A/C) in addition to the time-of-use pricing we’re getting, can be found here.
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Finally, if you think nobody is reading your tweets, the arrest of a man in the UK – who threatened to blow up an airport after snow delays – should scare you. His iPhone, laptop and home computer have been taken away. Guess he forgot to include an appropriate emoticon.[rssbreak]
