Did you ever enter a science fair when you were a kid? Did you make the volcano explode when adding baking soda? Did you make a potato power a light bulb? Well, a young man from Canada (who looks really funny) recently did what others have failed to do. He found a way to compress 1,000 years of mother natures photo-degradable power on plastic into 3 months.

Industrial application should be easy, said Burd. “All you need is a fermenter . . . your growth medium, your microbes and your plastic bags.”

The inputs are cheap, maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because microbes produce heat as they work, and the only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide — each microbe produces only 0.01 per cent of its own infinitesimal weight in carbon dioxide, said Burd.

“This is a huge, huge step forward . . . We’re using nature to solve a man-made problem.”

For more information on this note worthy, green and hands down amazing discovery check out the full article.

Behold the power of blogs. No doubt you’ve all already seen this, but I always suspected that beneath Rachel Ray’s relentlessly perky demeanor beat the heart of a cold-blooded terrorist. Now we know the truth. Not only can RR whip up a twenty minute meal with Sloppy Joe mix and a can of peas, she can also apparently whip up quite a furor in the conservative blogosphere. A Dunkin’ Donuts online spot was pulled because RR’s scarf looks eerily similar to a keffiyeh, a type of headdress popularized by Yassir Arafat and assorted Muslim extremists. Thoughts? I don’t know why Dunkin’ Donuts would cave on something so obviously silly, but Rachel Ray isn’t the terrorist here; I think it’s the bloggers.

I guess this is the social network for original G’s. Sorry for not embedding the video, but its funny. T-shirts and other gear is available.

** this is for big kids. Foul language used in a joking way may be included in the aforementioned video. If you do not find foul language funny, please do not click the link.

Another follow up to our talk about social marketing and to a few things Flip mentioned in his earlier AdTech presentation. One of the questions that came up was whether advertisers should have such a large presence in social networking environments – meaning blogs, chatrooms, networking sites like MySpace, Linkden, Facebook, etc. Well, apparently lawmakers in the UK don’t think they do. This Huffington Post piece by Lucas Conley (in which you’ll find a link to the actual draft of the law) talks about why we could use a similar law against overzealous corporate bloggers here in the States. I’m not sure I was persuaded, but it does raise some ethical questions about corporate honesty and the proper role of businesses and marketers in social networks. OK. Discuss!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lucas-conley/whats-a-little-marketing_b_103197.html

Interesting profile in the New Yorker about Photoshop maestro Pascal Dangin. The article states than in the March issue of Vogue he worked on 144 images, including 107 of the ads. One he’s worked on: the Dove “Real Beauty” campaign. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_collins?currentPage=1