How much packaging is necessary to ship a small package of 4″x6″ photo paper, Best Buy?
The National Health Service in the London Borough of Hounslow, in an effort to coax young people into getting tested, is offering free self-service STD kits, with an added bonus: text message diagnosis!.
There are few practices as stupid, simple and damaging to the environment as wasteful packing. Take a look at this ludicrous box that Dell used to send a 2GB thumb drive. It’s about 100 times too big, and it’s not just wasteful because of the cardboard used. I, for one, am sick of seeing crap like this.
Apparently, there’s been a large number of injuries in England caused by boneheads walking and texting and then walking into solid objects. Rather than create some sort of Darwinian euthanasia program like I would if I was Duke or Lord or Bobby or whatever the leader of that country goes by, the Brits have decided to simply place padding around the lampposts, making them idiotproof for their populous. It’s currently being tested on Brick Lane in London and if it’s successful it’ll spread to other cities in England. Feel free to use the comments section to bemoan what a shameful statement this makes about your country and claim that you are one of the few smart ones, Brits. [Yahoo]
