| Designer eco-bags on sale for a fiver
A DESIGNER shopping bag that has been fetching hundreds of pounds on online auction sites goes on sale tomorrow in Sainsbury's for just five pounds. The Anya Hindmarch "I'm not a plastic bag" bag will be available from selected Sainsbury's stores around the country from 8am, including branches in The Malls and Hatch Warren Retail Park, in Basingstoke, and in Mulfords Hill, in Tadley. Each store will have just 30 of the bags in stock, and no more are expected to be produced for the UK market. Sainsbury's expects the bags to sell out very quickly and will be limiting customers to just one each. The environmentally-friendly shopper was designed in a bid to persuade people to reuse bags, and has already been seen on the arms of Keira Knightley and Lilly Allen.
Going green starts in small ways at home
EVERYONE can curb global warming and pollution with a little knowledge and some time to go shopping, online or in person. If you do go to the store, bring reusable cloth bags for your purchases. They come in organic, natural, recycled, ecospun and hemp fibers and are available in different sizes, colors and shapes. Get a stylish woven travel bag or a simple string bag for the farmers market. -Get it at: www.ecobags.com. Who knew that even the kitchen mop could be improved to help clean something as big as the environment? An ergonomic mop made by San Francisco firm Method Home, which offers environmentally-friendly cleaning products, has compostable sweeping cloths. -Get it at: www.methodhome.com or Andronico's, Kmart or Safeway. Green up your office with supplies as varied as compostable envelopes, sustainable pens, a book cart with recycled steel, and a solar-powered calculator.
YouTube: 'Hustle & Flow' meets Lucky and Flo
In what is surely the understatement of the year, Variety reports that YouTube will soon be taking advertising, but that "[k]ey to the new venture will be making sure that those who upload video actually own the rights to it."Um, ya think?What's so astonishing about YouTube is what an overpriced sack of liability it really is: For starters, Wall Street types say it only makes $15 million a year in revenue - that's more than a teaspoon less than the $1.65 billion price Google paid for it.But before we go thumbing our noses at Google CEO Eric Schmidt, we have to admire the sheer chutzpah of his venture's latest tactics. Schmidt, speaking at a conference of nerds and internet geeks, said that a new tool, dubbed "Claim Your Content," would soon be available to irritated content companies like Viacom, currently suing YouTube for a cool billion dollars.
Diamonds in the drop box
If part of the fun of shopping at a thrift store is never knowing what you'll find, imagine what it's like for people who sort through the donations. They're often surprised by odd and interesting items that can range from a 12-foot pink Easter bunny to a litter of live kittens. "It's an adventure every day I come to work," says Kathy Bradish, who prices the antiques and collectibles at St. Vincent de Paul. This is the start of the busy season for charitable donations as community-wide garage sales get under way and people start their spring cleaning. So nonprofit organizations expect their lists of odd and unusual donations to grow. "The Madison community is very generous. It's just amazing what they give us," says Ralph Middlecamp, executive director for the Society of St.
Spider-Man 3 Interviews: Director Sam Raimi
ComingSoon.net's Superhero Hype! talked to Spider-Man 3 director Sam Raimi as well as the entire cast of the film at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Here is the complete Sam Raimi Q&A in which he talks about the anticipated movie and where he stands on upcoming Spidey films. Superhero Hype!: What was it like coming back to direct "Spider-Man" the third time around? Sam Raimi: It was great working on the third one in many ways and it was difficult in many ways. The easiest thing was that the team was the same. Not just the producers who I became very familiar with, but I had the same production designer, the editor was the same, the animators were the same. They had learned how to move Spider-Man with great grace and they had learned from a lot of their mistakes. So it was definitely easier because of the shorthand of communication.
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