Drat! Seems those energy efficient CFL’s (Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs) contain just enough lead that the bulbs could be a problem when they’re put in the rubbish (link found via Slashdot):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23694819/
The amount is tiny — about 5 milligrams, or barely enough to cover the tip of a pen — but that is enough to contaminate [...]

I just submitted this to Slashdot, as I think it’s interesting what the end result will be? Will the OLPC get squeezed out? Will US kids like ‘em (I think they will).

bettlebrox writes “Birmingham, Albama, may be the first US city to purchase the OLPC, per the Boston Herald:
‘The City Council has approved [...]

RAM, (Remote Area Medical) a US charity group originally started to provide health care to remote regions in the Amazon is now doing 6o% of it’s work in the US:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/28/60minutes/main3889496.shtml
“RAM operates on a shoestring budget of about $250,000 a year. Yet, last year, it treated 17,000 patients.”
“You created this medical organization designed to go into [...]

Eddie’s fecking dead because he was illegal alien and was scared to go to hospital:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/31/a_toast_to_an_irishman/
This just feckin’ sucks:
Eddie died in his own bed. We will never know if it was stubborn pride or a fear of being deported that kept him from going to a hospital to treat the pneumonia that killed him. Maybe [...]

Is always bad. And this is a very sad, graphic picture:
http://www.photojournalism.org

From the NYTimes:
Roger Dow, president of the Travel Industry Association, told me that the United States has lost millions of overseas visitors since 9/11 — even though the dollar is weak and America is on sale. “Only the U.S. is losing traveler volume among major countries, which is unheard of in today’s world,” Mr. Dow [...]

Hardly a surprise:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070803/od_nm/work_bosses_dc

“The fact that 64.2 percent of the respondents indicated that either nothing at all or something positive happened to the bad leader is rather remarkable — remarkably disturbing,”

Nicely done timeline of British history:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml
Nice example of the good usage of flash or flex.