Friday, October 6th, 2006
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News06 Oct 2006 01:27 pm by nic
Making a Real Green Drink
This post is for those who like to treat the planet a little better than they treat their own bodies.
Treehugger have posted a round-up of the easiest ways to destroy your liver while saving the earth - from organic ingredients, to waste-reducing accessories and recycled mood lighting.
For those out-and-about, there’s even tips on where to find an organic drink in the boozy haze of a New York City bar.
It’s the drinking man’s path to a clear conscience (if not a clear head…)
Cruisin’ for Some Boozin’ [Treehugger]
News06 Oct 2006 01:17 pm by nic
Movember – Aussies Save Lives Through the Power of the ‘Tache

Next month is Movember across Australia (and selected other countries). Yes, Movember.
To raise money for men’s health issues (depression and prostate and testicular cancer in 2006), men across the island continent will shave their faces clean on November 1 and spend the remainder of the month growing and grooming moustaches.
The month concludes with what look like quite extravagant and poorly-behaved moustache pageants where aspiring pornstars and Tom Selleck look-alikes display their wares on stage before a ‘tache-hungry mob of charitable (and no doubt, drunk) spectators.
We wonder whether foreign tourists spending time in Australia in seven weeks time will be taken aback by: a) The disproportionate number of men wearing moustaches on 30 November; and b) The complete disappearance of all the moustaches on 1 December.
Movember
News06 Oct 2006 01:05 pm by nic
The KonTiki Diver – Hood-Popping Underwater Watch Tinkering
Few engineering marvels are designed to be taken a kilometer under the sea. In fact, apart from nuclear submarines and diving watches, we can’t think of any.
The KonTiki Diver from Eterna, however, is clever for much more than just its ocean depths survival skills.
The mechanical movement of the watch is sealed within that black, watertight container behind the face, and anchored to the band of the watch by its ‘hinged lid’. And it’s the first diving watch without a screw-in crown, and it’s a crown you can even wind underwater if you feel as though you need to start things over on the ocean floor.
As our angry friends at Chad the Watch Guy point out, however, if you live in the States you’re going to have to swim to Switzerland to pick one of these up.
Yeah, you heard us. Swim to Switzerland.
Kon Tiki 1000 Meter Diver [Chad the Watch Guy]