House move completed. Internet connected. Boxes packed away. Baby due soon.

We are back on the airwaves and ready to post. Got some great photos coming tomorrow so hang on.

In the meantime, here are some interesting things to help you through the day. Great article in fast company about bottled water...

We're moving 1 billion bottles of water around a week in ships, trains, and trucks in the United States alone. Meanwhile, one out of six people in the world has no dependable, safe drinking water. The global economy has contrived to deny the most fundamental element of life to 1 billion people, while delivering to us an array of water "varieties" from around the globe, not one of which we actually need.

Indeed, while the United States is the single biggest consumer in the world's $50 billion bottled-water market, it is the only one of the top four--the others are Brazil, China, and Mexico--that has universally reliable tap water. Tap water in this country, with rare exceptions, is impressively safe.

And for this healthy convenience, we're paying what amounts to an unbelievable premium. You can buy a half- liter Evian for $1.35--17 ounces of water imported from France for pocket change. That water seems cheap, but only because we aren't paying attention.

In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from inside Yosemite National Park. It's so good the EPA doesn't require San Francisco to filter it. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle once a day for 10 years, 5 months, and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35.

Taste, of course, is highly personal. New Yorkers excepted, Americans love to belittle the quality of their tap water. But in blind taste tests, with waters at equal temperatures, presented in identical glasses, ordinary people can rarely distinguish between tap water, springwater, and luxury waters. At the height of Perrier's popularity, Bruce Nevins was asked on a live network radio show one morning to pick Perrier from a lineup of seven carbonated waters served in paper cups. It took him five tries.

And, Scooter Libby goes free when the President steps in and commutes his sentence. An amazing story and what is now going to be a big book and movie and was launched recently at Book Expo America.

Lastly, here's what the charts look like when someone forgets to turn the surf on in the morning.

This entry was posted by Cam, P and Indigo, on Wednesday, July 04, 2007. You can leave your response.