BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Floyd inflatable pig is recovered: “Floyd inflatable pig is recovered”
Seems Roger’s pig got the urge to fly off, but it’s been returned. Not quite intact, however.
At last: a chance to re-use my photo of Roger’s inflatable pig from Calgary in June…
Get out of the road if you want to grow old.
This has got to be the biggest non-announcement ever.
Sigh. My guess is we’ll see lots of mainstream TV shows in iTunes’ Canadian store before we see iPhones for non-millionaires.
Pharyngula: Bloggers, you have a job to do: Expelled
Accelerometer-based Cycling jacket wins design award: this very-cool idea will save more lives than bicycle helmets…
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My 5th generation iPod (30 GB) has given up the ghost. Sad iPod icon and everything. ‘Josiah’ at Apple tech support says it’s probably the hard drive, and that it’s not likely worth fixing; since it’s out of warranty, the repair cost is nearly as much as the replacement cost. Ah, disposable technology… Is there any other kind? 
VIDEO: Are Plastic Water Bottles Safe? : DivineCaroline: “Are Plastic Water Bottles Safe?”
I threw out three expensive water bottles late last year — models which the manufacturer has since replaced with bottles featuring a different plastic — and switched to metal bottles by SIGG.
The thing that annoys me most about this sort of threat — however small it may be — is that manufacturers are automatically given a pass until something is proven, at someone else’s great expense, to be harmful.
Don’t look for this to change soon. And kudos to NBC for showing some of their sponsors’ products in this piece: I’ll bet someone took some heat for that.
