Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-17-2009

[anuran]

• OBJECTIVE: Orbital Cross Alpha
  My favourite bit: The Satanic forces of anti-Christianism are mustering on the horizon, planning their siege of this stronghold of Faith, America. Of course, we cannot lose this war, for God is on our side and has foretold our victory, but that is no excuse for laziness
  (tags: religion awesome)
• regender: reverses gendered words and names on websites.
  Great fun..
  (tags: gender fun)
• Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France - Telegraph
  Detailed article from April 2009
  (tags: doom plastic pollution)
• Captain Charles Moore on the seas of plastic
  Here's a TED lecture on the Seas of Plastic and the plastic soup oceans have become; also just search the internets for North Pacific Gyre, or the Great Garbage Patch
  (tags: doom plastic TED)
• images of dead baby Albatrosses show grapically what killed them
  a small glimpse into the utter fuckedness of why we are utterly fucked. This is why I have a DOOM tag on my bookmarks.
  (tags: doom)

Comments

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

yes the first link is an elaborate hoax, but it took a lot of going through that site to realise it.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

images of dead baby Albatrosses show grapically what killed them
My God...

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

yes. it's not like this guy has stumbled across a few baby birds either, this is across the glove in all the Pelagic feeders - over here, Fulmar (which are related to albatross) which wash up dead along the North Sea Coast are collected by the Atlantic Seabird Society, and pretty much look the same on the inside as these birds. The other links show that it's the same with small fish who ususally feed on plankton

I don't think there's any hope left for seas; even if we all stopped using plastics right now we'd still have tons and tons of that shit out there for almost all eternity. This plus over fishing is why current estimates are for the oceans to be dead within 50 years

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

erm, globe. Not glove.

DOOOOOOOM WE'RE ALL DOOOOOMED