Archive for November, 2006
During my daily consumption of interesting articles from Divester, I came across a piece describing a giant ‘vortex’ of plastic waste that circles around in the middle of the ocean North of Hawaii. Fascinated, I read on. Apparently the ocean currents carry the plastic waste discarded by ships and from land into a circular pattern such that this garbage accumulates and has nowhere else to go.
There are, in fact, two such vortices at work in the Pacific ocean, the other one lying just off the coast of Japan (another major producer of plastic waste on the Pacific Rim.
Continue Reading November 28th, 2006
Four months and forty dives after buying my latest underwater camera and housing kit, I’ve ended up with some great impressions of Casio’s 10.1 Megapixel EX-Z1000 camera and EWC-80 polycarbonate housing. With very few shortcomings and a lot of resolution in a small package, this little rig delivers as does no other in the compact digital market. Extremely quick on the draw, unequalled battery life (~360 shots per charge!) and intuitive user interface all add up to a superb record of my recent dive history. If you’re in the market for a small, affordable, easy-to-use underwater digital camera, look no further.
Continue Reading November 23rd, 2006
Today I came across a blog post and discovered a site called LeapFish, which estimates the value of domain names. Now, if you’re a big domain name squatter you might find this site useful, or at least entertaining, to figure out how much cashola you’ve got stowed away in your GoDaddy account. A quick search yields the estimate that Newsvine.com is worth a whopping $445,900.00.
Continue Reading November 22nd, 2006
Doing a new rendition of one of my favorite Grammy nominated songs, ‘Blame Canada‘, Greenpeace scores a hit with a South Park parody aimed at the dastardly fishing practices of Canada and Spain. As long as we’re talking about environmental conscience and humor, please give PoopVictoria.ca a visit!
Continue Reading November 21st, 2006
