Gerry Canavan

Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally. A star...

Late night. * What is the jobless rate for people like you? Post-racial America is awesome. ( via ) * Salman Rushdie totally doesn't k...

Junk we left on the Moon . (via Gynomite )

Friday politics roundup. * Early returns from the Iranian elections suggest things could get heated , with both sides declaring victory. * ...

Have I told you about how nerds destroy the world? From Pictures for Sad Children , via grinding.be .

New Jersey: now literally running on garbage .

Midday links. * MTV cut down a rainforest to film a series of the world's most trivial show, Road Rules/Real Word Challenge . * Will th...

News roundup! * Surprising sat: 2/3 of U.S. corporations pay no taxes at all. * In the latest sign of trouble in the planet's chemistry,...

Slouching towards Ecotopia: San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed fines of up to $1000 for failure to properly sort one's trash...

Via SF Signal : Video of classic s.f. authors speaking about the value of science fiction . Perhaps not surprisingly I'm struck by what...

Scientists have genetically engineered a insect bacteria that eats garbage and craps crude oil . We're saved! LATE UPDATE : I don'...

Leading off this lovely Tuesday linkdump is Barack Obama's college poetry. (Thanks, Tim!) Also in what I loosely refer to as the news:...

'World of Waste: American Mass Consumption in Images. Via Jaimee. That's 2,000,000 plastic bottles, the amount America throws out ...

Thursday morning links. * For my people, the right to listen to Bruce Springsteen is literally a matter of life and death . * Also in the ne...

Thursday links: * The North Pacific Trash Vortex, which was the size of Texas in September , is now larger than the entire United States . M...

Was 2007 the year we all finally realized how unbelievably stupid it is to be making all these plastic bags? MetaFilter investigates .

Waste in the fiction of J.G. Ballard .

First, they discovered a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico so oxygen-deprived that nothing can live in it; now researchers have discovered a...