Christmas lights + Guitar Hero = Internet sensation / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Christmas lights + Guitar Hero = Internet sensation / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

The Facts About Bottled Water : Dump.com

The Facts About Bottled Water : Dump.com

This is a great collection of information about where the bottled water we drink in the US comes from.

Ann Coulter versus Meghan McCain... Round 12

Really Ann has been much funnier than this before, and it was a pretty cheap shot.

clipped from www.mediaite.com Since then, Coulter has been overshadowed by ever-more-unhinged competitors like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and watched as McCain’s shining star reached cornea-burning levels. Now, she’s reduced to taking extremely cheap shots at Meg at 3 in the morning. Enter Tiger Woods.

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How fair is fair trade?

To be honest I never felt right about the market manipulation aspect of fair trade. I know that large companies have used market manipulation to exploit poor farmers for years. However the cure for market manipulation isn't different manipulation, it is an attempt to really have a free market system.

clipped from www.marginalrevolution.com We might think of sub-Saharan subsistence economies when we think of Fairtrade, but the biggest recipient of Fairtrade subsidy is actually Mexico. Mexico is the biggest producer of Fairtrade coffee with about 23% market share. Indeed, as of 2002, 181 of the 300 Fairtrade coffee producers were located in South America and the Caribbean. As Marc Sidwell points out, while Mexico has 51 Fairtrade producers, Burundi has none, Ethiopia four and Rwanda just 10 – meaning that "Fairtrade pays to support relatively wealthy Mexican coffee farmers at the expense of poorer nations".

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Things haven't changed much with teleprompters

Invented to be used by soap stars, they are still used primarily by speakers trying to portray a false emotion.

clipped from www.csmonitor.com Teleprompters were invented to help actors struggling to memorize soap opera lines. An operator controls the scrolling of text. Display screens can be placed over a camera, or on clear glass, or pretty much anywhere that gets speakers’ eyes up, so it doesn’t look as if they’re reading from a piece of paper.

Nicky is HOT!

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