http://www.decafme.org/

...the oily farts.

One time I went to an all-you-can eat Sushi restaurant and ate a bunch of 'White Tuna'... Later that day I took a dump... and noticed oily stuff in the toiled. Ended up farting oil for next two days. Felt like Exxon Valdez.

Bastards.

          ICANN.change.org?

Yes, I am in IT and you/your company may be an exception (kudos).

Does your company have clear ethical guidelines and a procurement department which manages the vendor selection process?

Do you accept lunches/gifts from vendors? Have these ever affected your decision? How can you be certain?

... batteries not included

IT Managers have been spending like drunken sailors. It's quite appalling that policies and strategy of most corporate IT shops are dictated by hardware and software vendors who cozy up to the management and staff through gifts, golf games and lunches.

Old hardware is thrown out instead of re-used, and nine times out of ten more powerful (and expensive) hardware/solution is chosen. It's time for IT to tighten the belt and re-direct some of the money lining vendors' pockets to some old fashioned internal R & D.

of physical memory.

This is nice, but it relies on electricity. If they can mitigate the need for the thing to be plugged in, this would go a lot further in the areas where electricity is as unreliable as the water supply.

What we should be focusing on, and I am surprised there isn't an X-prize on it yet, is how to get drinkable water from the ocean by using solar power or other non-grid source of energy. Think of all the folks who live along shorelines and do not have access to drinking water.

If we can find an energy-efficient way to extract fresh water out of the ocean, we will be able to reverse the dilution happening due to melting of the polar ice cap, provide water for areas affected by drought and with self-powered irrigation systems turn deserts into arable land.

http://www.omm.com/sanfrancisco/

BTW, the lawyer's name is Ramage - quite appropriate in my opinion.

tr.v., rammed, ramÂming, rams.

      1. To strike or drive against with a heavy impact; butt: rammed the door with a sledgehammer until it broke open.
      2. To force or press into place.
      3. To cram; stuff: rammed the clothes into the suitcase.
      4. To force passage or acceptance of: rammed the project through the city council despite local opposition.

Tomato/MLPPP http://fixppp.org/index.php?p=documentation Tomato/MLPPP is a fork of the popular Tomato firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) for consumer broadband routers. The primary goal is to enable users to bond multiple DSL connections using MultiLink PPP (MLPPP), and/or to circumvent Bell Canada's DPI-based throttling by using MLPPP on a single DSL line.