This is the one with links.
Here’s some stuff happening on the web that you shouldn’t miss.
If soda makers started making “naked cans” that is, aluminum cans without paint, they could save the world. Seriously, this no-paint can would reduce air and water pollution. It would also reduce energy and effort to separate toxic color paint from aluminum in the recycling process. Huge amounts of energy and paint are required to manufacture colored cans. The cans are made with a pressing method.
Read the whole story at: Gizmodo.com
A pub owner in the U.K. was fined the equivalent of about $13,000 because someone illegally downloaded copyrighted material using his Wi-Fi hotpsot.
The law surrounding open Wi-Fi networks is kind of gray, and it’s interesting to see cases like this one.
Read the whole story at: Cnet.com
What the hell? How does a huge company like Kellogs fuck up like this? There’s going to be an Eggo Waffle shortage. You probably won’t be able to buy one until next year (which is just a month away). Kellogs blames factory difficulties to explain the sudden death of the toaster-friendly treat, but conspiracy theories abound.
What’s the truth?
Read the whole story at: TheWeek.com
The University of Chicago is estimating that the total number of Americans with diabetes will double in the next 25 years. Currently 24 million people are living with diabetes. They’re guessing that 44 million will be living with the chronic illness by 2034. And if that number goes up, so must too the cost of treating those people. They’re estimating the cost to treat diabetes to triple from the current $113 billion to $366 billion per year.
It’s a bitch.
Read the whole story at: Time.com
