1. My fair city again leads the nation - the City Supervisors vote to ban petroleum-based plastic bags from large groceries and pharmacies - small businesses are exempt.

Well, I'm glad I bought my most-excellent* nylon Chicobag - I should really see if they have any publically-traded stock!
Note to UK friends: Ask Geneva to see her's. If you want ( Read more... )

At this rate of TOADZILLA evolution, Australia will also breed the awesome HYPNOTOAD!

TOADZILLA weighs in at just under 2lbs. and is 8cm in length, and has poison clusters abundant. I imagine it eats cats regularly, one wonders if it at least offers its services by eating other cane toads.

1. Kenya: suspected source of recent crime wave, Simon Matheri, found & shot dead - we'll see if this leads to anything useful. Too bad the 200 armed police failed to complete an arrest. It's particularly poor that the rest of the gang were not swept up in the same violent raid.

2. Globalisation: world auto manufacturing history

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