Morning News Fix
July 31, 2007 by Sara Ost
Filed under Health, Morning News Fix, Oddities, Smoking, Technology
Another Reason to Hate the Office Printer
Not only are those demonic peripherals known as “printers” eternally problematic, they are also destructive to health. Up to one-third of printers pollute the office air with toner chemicals that are just as destructive as cigarette smoke. You know, I’m just not surprised. Printers are evil. You could tell me they’re responsible for deforestation and I’d believe it. (They use paper, don’t they?)
And Oh, How the Sparks Flew
Sweat and your CPU: not a pretty mix. This young man found out the hard way.
Marijuana Not Safe Again
The latest study shows that a joint is five times harder on the lungs than a cigarette. Though marijuana has not been definitively linked to emphysema or lung cancer, researchers say it does cause wheezing, phlegm, tissue damage and decreased lung function.
For those of you who have gotten yourself a free online membership to The Lancet: important news about abortion.
I’m a little off topic with this… but I was reviewing a proposal from a fax service and it had these facts about paper on the bottom…see you were right about deforestation…
* 12,500 sheets of paper can be made from 1 tree
* 210 billion sheets of paper are consumed by faxing in US companies every year.
* 17 million trees per year are cut down to supply fax paper for the US as a whole
And this is just about faxes … wow
Office Space — classic
I remember the line from Almost Famous in which the guy at Rolling Stone magazine is raving about the new wonder known as the “fax machine” that transfers a page – get this – in only 18 minutes!