Playgreen - Wiki Green Living!

"'We' are smarter than 'me'. The central premise of this assumption is that large groups of people ('We') can, and should, make a fantastic resource site to foster responsible consumption habits in our daily life, economy, industries." - Link

Tire Tote - Maneuverable Wheel Covers

"I've been using these Totes for more than a couple years now to store snow tires I swap on for only a fraction of the year. I also use one for the spare I keep in my trunk. They make moving the tires around really easy and the clean factor is definitely part of the attraction, for both the trunk and the garage." - Link

250,000 Mile Continuous Motorcycle Trip

"She has been traveling solo around the world on her motorcycle continuously for the past five years. She has logged over 250,000 miles on this trip and is still going. She has toured every continent, most countries, and has been hospitilized three times due to accidents, and yet she still keeps going. As of May 8th, she is in the South West U.S. and is now headed through Texas to Key West then up the Eastern Seaboard, across Canada to Alaska, then back down to California." - Link

The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Marks

"When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio - meaning 'question' - at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, which caused another problem - readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercased q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our current question mark." - Link

ASCII Google Maps

"Google Maps in ASCII characters. Pure silliness for your enjoyment by the good people at Poly9 and the invaluable Markus Gebhard (whose software and timely help were put to good use)." - Link

Richard Ankrom’s Freeway Sign

"Richard Ankrom, 46, an artist in Los Angeles, Calif., planned his latest masterpiece, a combination paint and performance work, for two years: he altered a major road sign on the Harbor Freeway in downtown. He put up his work in broad daylight, but was unnoticed because he was dressed as a road worker. The audience: 150,000 motorists per day. The payoff: no one noticed, not even state transportation engineers. The plan was to announce the project a year later, but a friend tipped off the press after 9 months. The modification, done to exact Federal Highway Administration specifications, helps motorists navigate a complicated transition ahead. 'The experts are saying that Mr. Ankrom did a fantastic job,' said a Caltrans spokeswoman. 'They thought it was an internal job.' The agency plans to leave the modification in place, since it is in fact helpful to motorists. Ankrom says helping out motorists 'was the whole point.' (Los Angeles Times)" - Link

A Low Impact Woodland Home

"You are looking at pictures of our family home in Wales. It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour)." - Link

There Goes An Asshole by Shank Bone Mystic

"A video of security cam footage of a guy stealing my bike wheels set to a song I wrote about what an asshole this guy is.." - Link

How to Build a Cardboard Castle

"Arrange your boxes so that four boxes stand vertically at four corners. These will be towers. Take three other boxes and lay them horizontal between the towers on three sides. These will be tunnels that connect the towers as well as form castle walls (they will not stand up until you attach them with rivets). The illustration below, right is a "bird's-eye-view" schematic." - Link

U-Haul Knowingly Rents Deadly Trailers

"U-Haul knowingly rents unsafe tow trailers that have the potential to kill customers. A yearlong investigation by the L.A. Times found that U-Haul's practices unnecessarily expose customers to the dangers of trailer sway." - Link