If you’ve been following the news surrounding the Bisphenol A chemical used to make popular plastic bottles, such as Nalgene, I’m sure by now you’ve upgraded — or thought about upgrading — to a BPA-free Nalgene or SIGG. But what to do with a pile of old, potentially-dangerous Nalgenes? Here are a few great tips from a friend’s company, Tuxedo Ranch:

1. Use them to store loose change.
2. Drill holes in the red bottles and use as hummingbird feeders.
3. Fill with dirt and plant flowers or use as a vase.
4. Store nails, screws, and more.
5. Recycle. Many recycling centers now accept these #7 plastics.

Absolutely classic:

The Herald newspaper has condemned Zimbabwe’s neighbours as “myopic stooges” for refusing to let a cargo of Chinese weapons cross their territory to landlocked Zimbabwe.

“Zimbabwe is… under attack from the former coloniser and its allies. As such, Zimbabwe probably needs to arm itself more than any other country in Africa today for the simple reason that it has been targeted for destabilisation by the traditional Western rabble rousers,” the Herald said.

From the BBC.

This month’s cover story and feature in Time Magazine. The most green companies, the greenest websites, the Pentagon and more.

Excellent stuff, especially the list of websites.

To absolutely no one’s surprise, Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party has announced the results of a recount in the first two of 23 constituencies. Just to keep it interesting and in a ridiculous attempt to give the impression they’re being fair, ZANU-PF said the opposition MDC retained one of its already-won seats.

More from the BBC.

Meanwhile, Zwnews.com reports:

Independent election monitors say they have seen significant irregularities, including the illicit opening of ballot boxes, that makes the partial recount under way of Zimbabwe’s election an exercise in “futility”. As the recount enters its fifth day, and with the election commission saying it could take many more yet, foreign observers have documented concerns in many of the 23 constituencies where presidential and parliamentary votes are being counted again.

A monitor with the Southern African Development Community, Dianne Kohler-Barnard, says she witnessed tampering in two constituencies that “points to a concerted effort to rig the result in order to bring about a Mugabe ‘victory’”.

In Mberengwa West they brought the first four boxes down for counting. Each box has two of the blue ties with numbers on it that are used to seal it along with padlocks. They had a whole set of duplicates of the blue ties, with the same numbers, on the other side of the hall. The keys to the padlocks are inside envelopes sealed with wax. All the seals were broken. I can only surmise that the keys were removed and the padlocks unlocked. Then they discovered that the protocol register, which lists how many voting books were used and the numbers, was missing.

Yesterday, approximately 30% of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s undergraduate population celebrated the day “internationally recognized” as the celebration of marijuana.

I guess it’s not like they had to cut a 4 p.m. class to go do it. People are not all that busy at 4:20 p.m. in the afternoon on a Sunday.
CU police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley

Big news is this town. Via The Daily Camera.