- Apparently many Christian computer users are giving up Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other technology for Lent. Not me. I think it's probably easier to give up sweets.
- An entrepreneur in New York City is selling Tap'd NY, which is simply bottled NYC tap water. Description on the bottle states "No glaciers were harmed in making this water." And the price is $1.50 versus $1.85 for the Smartwater sold in the same Manhattan coffee shop. This start up venture is doing pretty well. New York City has one of the nation's healthiest water supplies (the EPA declared doesn't even need filtration), coming from a system of 19 reservoirs and three lakes in Upstate New York. It seems the pride of being a New Yorker combined with good tasting water and the green element of not being shipped from thousands of miles away is a pretty good business plan.
- New Jersey held its first feral pig hunt in December and January that managed to wipe out half the estimated pig population. This is a good thing - unlike the peccary or javelina of the Southwest, these are entirely non-native creatures, likely descending from some pigs that got loose from a hog farm in the early 1990's. According to the story, feral pigs have become one of the most destructive invasive species on the planet, rooting up native grasses and plants, killing habitat for native creatures and pushing out other wildlife in an agressive fight for territory. The state hopes to find the remaining pigs by using the "Judas pig technique," where a pig will be trapped and fitted with a radio collar with the hopes that the collared pig will eventually lead biologists to the the rest of them.
Have a great week!
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