Offset Your Cheating With CheatNeutral

Trading in Heart Breaks!

Jealousy and heartbreak are a natural part of modern life. And sometimes, no matter how hard we try, it’s just not possible to be faithful.

At Cheatneutral, we believe that we should all try to reduce the amount we cheat on our partners, but we also realise that fidelity isn’t always possible.

That’s why we help you neutralise your cheating. Your actions are offset by a global network of fidelity, developed by us. By paying Cheatneutral, you’re funding monogamy-boosting offset projects - we simply invest the money you give us in monogamous, faithful or just plain single people, to encourage them to stay that way.

When you use Cheatneutral, we’ll email you a Cheatneutral Offset Certificate, so you can prove to your loved one that your playing away has been successfully offset. Then, you and your partner are both happy, a broken heart is mended, and you can feel good about yourself again, all thanks to Cheatneutral.

And when you need to cheat again, we’ll be here for you

Add comment Datestamp: February 28th, 2008

Kurtz’s case provides view of Big Brother

From The Buffalo News: The Ridiculousness Drags On, Way Way too Long
I cannot understand why, four years later, Kurtz still is under the gun. Authorities soon learned that the bacteria was harmless, that Kurtz used it in his art and that his wife died of natural causes. Kurtz was — revealingly — not charged with bioterrorism, but with a minor offense. If Kurtz had a George W. Bush bumper sticker on his car, instead of anti-government diatribes on his bookshelf, the case might have been dropped long ago.

Add comment Datestamp: February 27th, 2008

A Reporter at Large: Big Foot: The New Yorker

By Michael Specter

An interesting article that discusses the tricky business of carbon footprint labeling and why it is not necessarily the best way to fight global warming.

“Tesco sells nearly a quarter of the groceries bought in the United Kingdom, it possesses a growing share of the markets in Asia and Europe, and late last year the chain opened its first stores in America. Few corporations could have a more visible—or forceful—impact on the lives of their customers. In his speech, Leahy, who is fifty-two, laid out a series of measures that he hoped would ignite “a revolution in green consumption.” He announced that Tesco would cut its energy use in half by 2010, drastically limit the number of products it transports by air, and place airplane symbols on the packaging of those which it does. More important, in an effort to help consumers understand the environmental impact of the choices they make every day, he told the forum that Tesco would develop a system of carbon labels and put them on each of its seventy thousand products. “Customers want us to develop ways to take complicated carbon calculations and present them simply,” he said. “We will therefore begin the search for a universally accepted and commonly understood measure of the carbon footprint of every product we sell—looking at its complete life cycle, from production through distribution to consumption. It will enable us to label all our products so that customers can compare their carbon footprint as easily as they can currently compare their price or their nutritional profile.”

Add comment Datestamp: February 27th, 2008

Stockhausen on YouTube — Make it Stick

From my former student, Ray Roy:

YouTube has very recently featured a video titled Karlheinz Stockhausen “Helicopter String Quartet”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=13D1YY_BvWU

It is an experimental piece of contemporary music and has been getting slammed with negative comments and low ratings by bored 13 year olds.

I have been struggling in negotiations with YouTube to feature material on the front page. The editors have consistently turned down the majority of videos I have submitted, saying that they are “too weird” or “wouldn’t work for video”. The videos I have been recommending to them include works by renowned experimental theater artists, choreographers, composers, and various young and virile artists from New York to California.

I don’t know how an experimental GEM like the Helicopter String Quartet slipped through the editing ranks at YouTube, but it is of the UTMOST importance that this video receive as MANY positive comments/ratings as possible. Even if you DESPISE the helicopter string quartet and the works of Stockhausen, if you have ANY feelings for serious experimental art, and would like to see more of it featured on YouTube, it is your DUTY to act positively!!!

Sign in to YouTube, view the video, then click and type away in as many input fields as possible! Rate it, comment on it, FAVORITE the video, leave thumbs up or thumbs down ratings on other peoples comments!

If you do not have a YouTube account, quickly sign up for one. It will take mere moments and you would be helping to create a more reputable user base on an electronic venue over run by pop culture obsession and mediocrity!

The goal is to prove that there are people who are interested in seeing more videos of a serious artistic and experimental nature featured on YouTube, instead of the usual suspects (speed paintings of characters from LOST, videos of animals being cute, bloopers of fathers playing T-ball with groin-height batters, and the like) [while those videos can be entertaining, there is a far higher echelon of material being grossly non-represented !!!]

This matters now because, somehow, this video ended up featured on the front page. We have been presented with the opportunity to affect YouTube’s attitude towards experimental art and artists.

here again is the link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=13D1YY_BvWU
pay it forwards

Add comment Datestamp: February 8th, 2008

Go Black

About Blackle - Energy Saving Search

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.” Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

Add comment Datestamp: February 3rd, 2008