Irrelevant Ramblings

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Disclaimer: This is a long video (20 min.), but it’s an interesting watch.  Check it out.

Here are a few of the statistics they shared in the video that I found most disturbing:

• Over the past three decades, one-third of the planet’s natural resources base have been consumed.
• In the United States, we have less than 4% of our original forests left.
• Forty percent of waterways in the US have become undrinkable
• In the U.S., industry admits to releasing over 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals a year.
• The average U.S. person now consumes twice as much as they did 50 years ago.
• Each person in the United States makes 4 1/2 pounds of garbage a day. That is twice what we each made thirty years ago.
• For every one garbage can of waste you put out on the curb, 70 garbage cans of waste were made upstream to make the junk in that one garbage can you put out on the curb.

Reeder is a desktop client for Google Reader. It’s been available on the iPhone and iPad for some time, and definitely holds the title of “best Google Reader” I’ve tried. The care and attention to detail invested into Reeder are unparalleled elsewhere. Reeder has quickly become my feed reader of choice.

If you have yet to take Reeder for Mac for a spin, here’s a quick one-minute screencast showing the interface in action:

And a few images of the sleek design: