The Anti-Boredom Team Blog

August 6, 2009

Northern Pacific Plastic Fantastic Garbage Gyre

Filed under: DOOMED — Dan @ 9:03 pm

Bigger than 2 Texases (which I think is a big as 1 Alaska), there’s a mass of plastic and Styrofoam (where the bottles you recycle goes) and it’s called something like the North Pacific Gyre Plastic Garbage Patch Kids. No Virgina — you can’t see it from space, probably because most plastic looks like clear water or white-capped waves. It also goes deep — like to the ocean floor — where fish and other creatures live in the Styrofoam cups.

Finally this sublime disgrace is making the mainstream news, but indie media VBS covered it 16 months ago (ok, VBS is owned by Viacom, so I guess they aren’t too indie).

VBS’s Toxic Garbage Island:

And here’s an article that showed up via Reuters this week: Scientists study huge plastic patch in Pacific.

July 12, 2009

There, I Fixed It: Epic Kludges + Jury Rigs

Filed under: DOOMED, Humor — Dan @ 4:04 pm

April 11, 2009

Burger King 2, Me 1

Filed under: Art Blogs, DOOMED, Food & Drink — Dan @ 9:19 am

April 9, 2009

Burger King 1, Me 0

Filed under: DOOMED, Food & Drink — Dan @ 5:14 pm

March 14, 2009

Jim Cramer on the Daily Show

Filed under: DOOMED, Vehicles — Dan @ 9:37 am

November 21, 2008

Use your gift cards before they’re worthless

Filed under: DOOMED, Saving Cash, Wacky Emails — Dan @ 4:37 pm

November 17, 2008

Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

Filed under: Bemusement, DOOMED, Humor, Videos and Vlogs — Tags: , — Dan @ 12:58 pm

November 10, 2008

Joe Scarborough and Laura Ingraham be funny.

Filed under: DOOMED, Humor, TV — Dan @ 8:47 pm
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