The Average Joe » General http://joemccurdy.com Random Thoughts and Opinions of Joe McCurdy Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:19:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 en Cool social bookmarking tool http://joemccurdy.com/2007/09/25/cool-social-bookmarking-tool/ http://joemccurdy.com/2007/09/25/cool-social-bookmarking-tool/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:53:32 +0000 Joe McCurdy http://joemccurdy.com/2007/09/25/cool-social-bookmarking-tool/ The other day I came across a new service (well to me anyways) called StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is a browser plugin/toolbar that allows users to discover and rate websites. When signing up with StumbleUpon a new user is able to pick and choose from site categories that might interest them. Then when a user hits the “Stumble!” button StumbleUpon chooses a new page based on the previous pages rated, ratings by your friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests.

As a general rule I hate toolbars, but StumbleUpon is pretty cool. It’s like channel surfing but without a whole lot of crap. It doesn’t take long before it seems like StumbleUpon knows you pretty well. Well I highly recommend that you check StumbleUpon out and give it a shot. If you do start Stumbling make sure you check out my StumbleUpon page.

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Of course the main reason I switched was because they come highly recommended but being carbon neutral sure doesn’t hurt! Check them out if you are looking for web hosting.

]]> http://joemccurdy.com/2007/09/07/new-web-hosting/feed/ The "Greenest Cars" list http://joemccurdy.com/2007/02/07/the-greenest-cars-list/ http://joemccurdy.com/2007/02/07/the-greenest-cars-list/#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:20:51 +0000 Joe McCurdy http://www.joemccurdy.com/?p=17 Check out the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 10th annual “Greenest Cars” list. Unfortunately of the top 12 “green” cars, not one is from a US manufacturer.

]]> http://joemccurdy.com/2007/02/07/the-greenest-cars-list/feed/ Vaporize your garbage. Get Energy? http://joemccurdy.com/2006/09/11/vaporize-your-garbage-get-energy/ http://joemccurdy.com/2006/09/11/vaporize-your-garbage-get-energy/#comments Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:15:17 +0000 Joe McCurdy http://www.joemccurdy.com/?p=21 I just came across this interesting AP article about how an Atlanta based company called Geoplasma is building and paying for a new garbage vaporizing facility in St. Lucie County Florida. The facility is scheduled to be ready in two years and if all goes as planned the facility will use lightning like plasma arcs to vaporize 3,000 tons of garbage a day. Some useful byproducts will also be created in the process; a synthetic gas that will be used to power turbines to create electricity, a slag byproduct will be sold/used for road construction, etc.

It sounds very promising but the plan does have some critics. Some aren’t sure about the company’s “cleaner emissions” claims and others have yet to see proof of the process working on such a large scale. Hopefully this is a viable technology that can be duplicated throughout the world.

]]> http://joemccurdy.com/2006/09/11/vaporize-your-garbage-get-energy/feed/ A Terrifying Message from Al Gore - Bender and Al Gore http://joemccurdy.com/2006/06/27/a-terrifying-message-from-al-gore-bender-and-al-gore/ http://joemccurdy.com/2006/06/27/a-terrifying-message-from-al-gore-bender-and-al-gore/#comments Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:29:13 +0000 Joe McCurdy http://joemccurdy.com/2006/06/27/a-terrifying-message-from-al-gore-bender-and-al-gore/ Check out this trailer for Al Gore’s new movie “An Inconvenient Truth“. Saving the world/environment is great and all but it’s really interesting because it features my second or third favorite fictional robot of all time … Futurama’s Bender. :)

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