It was a tweet from WaterWired that alerted us: Following quickly along, we tiny-url’d ourselves right over the the Christian Science Monitor: The first beaver sighting in the Detroit River in at least 75 years has been hailed by wildlife officials as a sign that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off. The […]
It appears as if a sequel to Hitchcock’s The Birds is shooting on location atop the Gladewater, Texas water supply! Of course, buzzards and vultures have been spooking mankind for eons; from Disney cartoons to classic literature, they frequently portend dying and death. So naturally, city leaders are worried that, “if the birds remain on the tower, their droppings will ruin the paint, […]
Sweet old Soul with fabulous flow. William Bell is still making music today but is best known for this 1961 B-side hit from the beginning of his career. (He actually wrote the song to express feeling homesick, not losing in love!) Lyrics: But now you’ve left me Oh! how I cry You don’t miss your […]
I saw this hysterical pic about a year ago, but this week’s Stimu-lust media blitz brought it crashing out of my subconciousness. Water & Pork: you can’t have one without the other! Thanks to herzogbr on Flickr for sharing this suddenly-relevant photo.
The email last night that put me into respiratory arrest began, Your site has been added to http://water.alltop.com/ If you’re not familiar with AllTop, it was launched last year by Guy Kawasaki; it aggregates scores of RSS feeds on one single topic into a clean, easy page, grouped by site and displaying the 5 most current headlines for each site. Your site gets […]
Sometimes I’d just stare and think…I wonder what’s become of her? Just a couple months ago we wrote about plastic bottle holiday trees, including this recyclarific example from the 2008 Methuen (Massachussetts) annual Festival of Trees. And now that the holidays are over, we sadly assumed she had been shredded to bits and cruelly bundled in a […]
You know the feeling, you see a tantalizing headline and bolt upright in your chair; like today, when “Doomsday Jim” (this blog’s eyes and ears “down-under”) sends a link to this: AUSTRALIA’S TOILET TAX WILL CHARGE AUSSIES PER FLUSH Wow! I read further on macedonia.eu: Householders would be charged for each flush under a radical new […]
The amazing Yellow Surprise motivated me to begin this blog and I believed that it (along with ASS) would reign supreme in funny-water brand-land forever. Never say never. Yellow Surprise and ASS, meet the challenger, Golden Stream. Eternal thanks to bikespod on Flickr for sharing this memory of his trip to Varkala, a coastal town […]
One sixth of the world, no access to clean water. 2 million people, dead of waterborne diseases. Every year. Year after year. Blah blah. Why doesn’t everyone get it? Why are relatively few taking action? Well, we marketing-types live and die by a basic tenet: make your message relevant to the audience, their lives, their world, or risk […]
Another reason to mourn this year’s lean snowpack numbers. From www.funnychill.com, but seen places elsewhere on the world wide web, so original source unknown.