Throughout France, the lights were turned off for 5 minutes as a way of raising awareness of climate change While the primary objective was to raise awareness, I’m not sure how switching off the lights would do that explicitly. However, the main electricity operator said there was a drop of some 800MW, or 1% of France’s total consumption. 800MW is a decent amount of energy - a single modern nuclear power plant generates about that much. ...

Cowgirl Espresso, Seattle is applying the sex-sells idea to coffee shops: you can line up for “Bikini Wednesdays”, “Fantasy Fridays,” “School Girl Thursdays,” “Cowgirl Tuesdays” and “Military Mondays”.

Having spent the last two days effectively giving people the finger, and a pretty ugly looking one at that, I can tell all you right handers: you have no idea how much you use your left hand’s middle finger. Ow.

Fighting Global Warming, the American Way: Block out the Sun, duh! Who shot Mr. Burns? Not me!

Movies to watch at some point: Happy Feet (teh cuteness + Robin Williams!) The Pursuit of Happyness (Will Smith!) Babel (wanted to watch this for long time) Deja Vu (Denzel + Sci Fi) Blood Diamond (action) Breaking & Entering (Hope it’s like Closer) Epic Movie (bwahahaha) Flushed Away (how can you not love Aardman?) Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst + anarchisms) For Your Consideration (heard about it) Hot Fuzz (From the team that brought you Shaun of the Dead) Coming soon ...