• Rubik’s
• World War III Propaganda
• Babes of the BNP
• Billie Jean + Geeks
• Is it always illegal to kill a woman?
• Flight of the Conchords (thx to Spinks)
• Rice Paddies 09
• John MacConnell
• Have you seen this Cat? (thx to Haynes)
• Petabyte? (thx to Gatsby)
• The Invention of Lying

• Hammer Time
• The Dreaded Question
• Curveball
• Worrying
• The Australian Childhood Foundation
• It’s a small world after all…?
• Paper Sculptures
• Snugglepot & Cuddlepie (the Banksia Men used to scare the shit out of me)
• MP Pay vs Government Success
• A rather sticky situation (thx to Gadsby)
• Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away
• Children in Pakistan

If was sensible I’d start putting the actual dates I publish them or if i was patient I’d just wait until Fridays.

Apparently i’m neither…

• Paris has been startled
• What’s Happening
• Russ Mills
• Vanitas
• Anti-patterns
• Where babies come from
• A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
• Slow-mo
• Palindrome
• Gig Posters (thx to Bash via Gadsbo)
• Subprime
• “…if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile of Adolf Hitler with a clear line of sight, sir… pack your bags, fellas, war’s over. Amen.”

After this week’s earlier revelation that making an organic cotton t-shirt requires 10,000 litres of water, you can now get a better idea of how much water you really use each day with a graphic GOOD have published giving an idea of part of an average person’s daily water footprint and how it can be reduced.

The ones that leap out at me are:

• A bottle of soft drink (half a litre) uses 165 litres of water in its production, as does a single egg
• Tea requires a quarter of the water that coffee does
• And beef weighs in at 15000 litres of water per kilo

To put some of the information in context, Wikipedia’s article on Water Footprints tells us that:

The global average Water Footprint is 1240 m³ water/person/year. The Chinese average is 700 m³ water/person/year one of the smallest in the world and the United States’s 2480 m³ water/person/year is the largest in the world…  The water footprint of the UK is 1695 m³ water/person/year.

A cubic metre is equal to 1000 litres so the average person in the UK uses 1.7 million litres of water a year.

The term Water Crisis refers to, “the status of the world’s water resources relative to human demand.” And I think the fact that it’s called the water crisis gives us an indication that we don’t have fresh water in abundance. The entry lists some of the consequences of the lack of (and uneven distribution of) fresh water including the inadequate access to safe drinking water and water for sanitation and waste disposal, its effect on agricultural yields, the harm to biodiversity caused by overuse and pollution and warfare caused by scarcity of water, but for a scary statistic how about:

At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from waterborne diseases. According to the World Bank, 88 percent of all diseases are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.