Green mobile phone plans? Green this, environmental that, damn hippies…

Green has been “the new black” for some time now… now it seems as if one can offset ones middle class guilt simply by purchasing a mobile phone plan.

The premise seems to be to be that one can drive ones V8, set up a wall of plasma TV screens, have a coal pit burining in ones back yard to melt down all the plastic shopping bags - whatever one pleases… and then, if one grabs one of these mobile phone plans, one can undo all the damage and erase any simmering middle class guilt without having to stop washing, growing dreadlocks and cooking lentils over tealight candles.

Fantastic idea I reckon, I might have to sign up for one so that I don’t have to move to Brunswick…

Green mobile phone plans… I suppose it had to happen.

Dirty filthy hippie

Dirty filthy hippie

Firefox 2 released

Firefox 2

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The long awaited second generation of the webs most user, developer and site friendly browser has arrived.

Firefox - or as it was previously known, Firebird, has been, without a doubt, responsible for a dynamic shift in the attitudes of Microsoft toward their own browser.

Internet Explorer, now in its seventh incarnation, unashamedly mimics many of the features of Firefox (though some would suggest that Firefox pinched some of them off Opera).

Back in the “good old days” - when Netscape was run by people who cared, it was the dominant browser - with good reason - it was standards compliant and easy to use.

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