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Wiping Away Ancient Forests

April 28th, 2007 by Terry

Kleercut

Kimberly-Clark clearcuts ancient forests to manufacture Kleenex tissue products. Become the most informed activist you can be by finding out more

Who is Kimberly-Clark?

from the faqs:

What are the names the most common brands of tissue products that Kimberly-Clark makes, so I can avoid supporting this company.

Canada: Kleenex
United States: Kleenex, Scott, Viva, Cottonelle
Global: Kleenex, Cottonelle, Cottonelle Puppy, Andrex, Scottbrand, Hakle, Scottex

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Using the Internet Community & Satellite Images

February 11th, 2007 by Terry

HelpFindJim.com

Search for Jim Gray

During the last 5 days, Mechanical Turk workers looked at more than 560,000 images from 3 satellites, covering nearly 3,500 square miles of ocean. A group of experts is currently reviewing the images that workers identified, and sending their results to the appropriate authorities.

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Streamick – Free Cable TV On The Web

November 28th, 2006 by Terry

Streamick

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Automatically Download Favorite TV Shows

November 27th, 2006 by Terry

Automatically Download Favorite TV Shows

The method I’m describing here uses the previously-mentioned free, open source torrent episode downloader, Ted. While Azureus and Torrent both have built-in RSS parsing and downloading features, Ted is the most user-friendly, simplest solution I’ve seen for downloading television on a schedule, and since all it does is download the torrent and open it in your favorite BitTorrent client, you can use it in conjunction with most popular BitTorrent clients.

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