Rambling Dogs

2008-09-03

Cool Firefox Add-on

So tired of browsing to upload files, now I can drag and drop! Why didn't I look for this extension before?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2190

2008-09-02

Holy Fees

Banks collected $45.6 billion - yes billion - in overdraft fees in 2007. Are we sure they needed credit cards and mortages, too?

No more polar bears

Arctic is now expected to be entirely ice-free in summer by 2030.

http://www.grist.org/news/2008/08/29/NonextantExtent/?source=daily

Dividend's are bad, at least according this article. GM spent $20 billion on dividends between 1996 and 2000. Think they might be doing better if that had gone into R&D?

http://www.theweekdaily.com/article/index/88168/3/Business_columns_When_satisfying_shareholders_can_ruin_a_company.html
Source: Sanford M. Jacoby, Chicago Tribune

Cash is Gross

US money is covered in cocaine, more than any other country. Not to mention all the other bacteria and such.

http://www.theweekdaily.com/article/index/88105/3/Health_scare_of_the_week_Dont_lick_your_money.html

Flying is Bad

From Adele Horin, The Sydney Morning Herald, as quoted in The Week:

One round-trip flight from Sydney to London emits 9 tons of carbon dioxide per passenger—the same amount of pollution the average person produces in a full year of “eating, driving, and heating and cooling their home.”

http://www.theweekdaily.com/article/index/88076/3/3/Staying_put_for_the_good_of_the_planet