plastic

Quoted: Go-To-Plastics provides plastic solutions including custom plastic molding, injection molding, roto-molding, thermoforming, plastic molding, plastic fabrication, machined plastic parts, custom displays, point-of-purchase displays and screen printing.

Metal business cards - about $3 per card.
Frosted Translucent cards - about $1 per card.

Some of their metal designs look just like the card Woz gave me.

Quoted: Metal & Plastic Business Cards

OMG, Hollywood? Plastic surgery? OMG. No, you don't say.

Quoted: Indian movie star Sheetal Sheth was shocked when she first arrived in Hollywood because every agent she approached insisted that she needed to get her breasts augmented.

Sheetal, who got her big break as the secretary in Albert Brook's "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World", thought people would have problems with her name - not the size of her bust.

Sheth says, "I went to Los Angeles and they told me to get boobs. About five different times they have suggested I get breast implants.

A description of the process used in the manufacture of Rayon, the first man-made natural filament yarn. The host website is a fascinating look at the history of plastics & plastic manufacturing.

Wow, finally some evidence that looks like plastics may be bad for our health.

I first saw an article in Experience Life magazine in 2005 on this: http://www.lifetimefitness.com/magazine/index.cfm?strWebAction=editors_letter&intNewMagEditionId=28
Needless to say I have switched to Stainless steel water bottles

More on this recent study, National Institutes of Health, press release: http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jul2007/niehs-30.htm
Copy of NIH's draft report: http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/chemicals/bisphenol/BPA_Interim_DraftRpt.pdf
Journal Reproductive Toxicology (pay), paper title is: Human exposure to bisphenol a (BPA)

In response to the debate around paper vs plastic as a result of San Francisco's ban on plastic bags. Keep in mind that not only are plastic bags better on all environmental fronts, but this article is comparing the effect in a 2:1 ratio, because of the capacity of plastic bags. When discussing using the bags under maximum capacity, Plastic blows paper away in all fronts.

There is no environmental reason to use paper over plastic. All it does in contribute to the cloud of smug looming over San Francisco (south park reference).

Quoted: Through a lifecycle energy analysis, plastic is the better bag. At current recycling rates two plastic bags use less energy and produce less solid, atmospheric, and waterborne waste than a single paper bag.