If you’re running Firefox 2 you might want to do this…

Thanks to Schnews for pointing out how to find out how rich you are compared to the rest of world’s population. I’ve been going on about this for ages - and now you can calculate it (well roughly anyway)!

The question is of course, do you feel better or worse because of this?

with all this borat chat i couldn’t resist 15 mins on you tube with ali g. here he is with the fbi and in northern ireland. his response to the ‘pope joke’ is pure genius. and what really made my eyes water - the comic relief interview with the beckhams. marvellous.

…eat local instead. the apple farm in Tipperary explains why.

you might also like to read sustain’s ‘Eating Oil’ Food supply in a changing climate PDF file.

(this post was inspired by reading rob’s michael meacher interview and a snippet i’ve been repeating that a new zealand apple shipped to europe by boat has less embodied energy than a local appple that’s been in cold storage for 8 months. i’m still not sure of the answer to this. but clearly the best option is to only eat local food that’s in season or stored unrefrigerated….)

I’d been wondering why there’s so much pointless spam lately. Pointlees, not just for me, but also for the sender as lot’s of it doesn’t even try to sell you anything. Fortunately the Guardian explains. It’ls all those bloody infected Windoze XP home computers…. one giant botnet. (botnet - what a great word.)

You’d have thought the level of debate might have moved up a bit - but here’s the BBC with a great quote:

“What price will you pay to save the planet? Do you think 1% extra on what we buy is worth paying to slow global warming?”

ermmmm… now let me think….

Paul Kingsnorth says just what I was thinking. Thanks Paul.