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Dell is currently running a campaign to show how environmentally hippy they have become.

Plant a Tree For Me

The idea is that you can add a line item to your order to plant a tree that will offset the CO2 your Dell purchase will generate over its lifetime.

It’s a neat idea, but completely shallow.  First, Dell isn’t doing anything that requires them to expend effort.  Simply collect the tiny fee, and forward it to some non-profit.  Second, they are not considering the environmental costs that go into making my shiny new Dell product.  They say nothing about the lead-heavy motherboard that is in my new laptop.  And they say nothing about the mercury filled fluorescent tubes that are in my flat panel display.

I am not an environmental nut-job.  I just HATE when companies try to portray themselves as something they clearly are not.

Dell makes great hardware… but it is not environmentally friendly.  And they should stop trying to pretend otherwise.

The Local - The Pirate Bay plans to buy island

An interesting idea… what happens if a country is purchased by a company. Although, many might say that is happening here…

He says it all…

It is not a hidden truth that I work countless hours behind the scenes whenever there is e-commerce innovation offered.

That being said, I don’t have an iPhone. Heck, I don’t even have an (APPLE)tv to share. But the truth is, we develop our products cross platform from the ground up. Thanks to Java, that is even easier than ever.

But, alas, we sometimes get surprised. Even though I am an offical member of the professional Apple Developer Connection, we had no advance warning about the iPhone. Steve & Co. says it runs Mac OS X, but they refuse to tell us which frameworks, if any, will be available to 3rd party developers.

Reardless of the shortcomings, the iPhone looks to kick some serious ass. Stay tuned for more as this story develops.

Prior to the YouTube revolution, we all had to settle for whatever ephemeral videos we are presented.

But today, we see the videos that were previously censored or avoided.  For example, how many of my fellow classmates have seen the truely uncensored Sinead O’Connor SNL video?  None, obviously.

With every single event, independent media will be there with the uncensored reports.  This is just the beginning.