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From Condoms to Crow


By Sarah van Schagen and Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter
02 Feb 2007
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Image: Friends of the Earth
Image: Friends of the Earth

If only they were 100 percent effective

A new ad campaign popping up on U.K. campuses asks: What better way to protect against climate change than with a jimmy hat salami sling love glove condom? Better latex than never! And, uh, where can we get one that size?
 
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Hoofin' it

Like the horse and buggy of years gone by, the electric Girasole alerts pedestrians of its presence with a clip-clop-clip-clop sound. Unlike the horse and buggy of years gone by, there will be no poop emissions.
Photo: Julie-Eve via Flickr
Photo: Julie-Eve via Flickr
 
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America's funniest video?

We're not sure which is scarier: the penguins in S&M gear, or the fact that it was dreamed up by Danny Tanner.
Photo: iStockphoto
Photo: iStockphoto
 
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Image: coolourplanet.org
Image: coolourplanet.org

The clime, it is a-changin'

Finally, a good use for hummers: the MUSE Campaign is seeking all y'all's climate-change ditties. So give 'em a jingle; we've already submitted our original song.
 
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Photo: George Pimentel / WireImage.com
Photo: George Pimentel / WireImage.com

The first emissions cut is the deepest

Seeking a Texas coal-plant massacre, rocker Sheryl Crow and celeb-because-she's-married-to-one Laurie David are gonna "kick up some dust" in the Lone Star State. Meanwhile, Ethan is hawking protection for the state's parks -- and appropriately, his mullet looks bigger in Texas.
 

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Obvious, isn't it? Which ones happened, Sarah and and which ones didn't, Sarah? Now, if you'd just slide me a personal little hint I can truly impress your other admirers next week. Bush would do it!

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