This was too cool not to re-blog

From Boing Boing..

“This Swiss goop (”Cyber Clean”) is a viscous slime that you roll around on your keyboard, so that all the food particles and fingernail parings are swept away, while the germicidal surface de-germifies your icky, filthy, disgusting keyboard. Link (via Red Ferret)”

I could use some of that now!

Some more specs are after the jump

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Okay, we know you’re dying for the next-generation iPhone in June. See the current iRumors here, but for those of us who can’t hand-me-down the phone to our distant and far less technologically advanced relatives, here’s the TakePart guide to recycling that first iPhone – and feeling good about it – while you get in line outside the Apple/AT&T stores for Version 2.0″!:

1. Greenpeace-Enforced Free Recycling – sure, you’d like to get a credit towards your next-generation iPhone, but Greenpeace has been hassling Apple since early iPod days to go green with the toxic substances found in its products. Click here to ask Steve Jobs for a Greener Apple. Great iPhone dissection video here.

Apple has been offering free recycling of its products through its stores for quite some time now, launched way back in 2006. However, the recycling was only free if you bought yourself a new gadget to replace the recycled one. Now, iPods and iPhones can be recycled for free without having to buy a new one, but if you want to recycle your old computer (regardless of its brand), you’ll still need to upgrade or pay.

No surprise, Apple has gone greener – announced on February 24, 2008. Here’s the official Apple recycle link (funny, no iPhones showing ); and one site that raised additional noise was GreenMyApple. Check out its historical archive.

2. How about AT&T? – A little on the corporate side, but AT&T is doing some needed CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) to help the effort. Now if only they’d do a promotion around buying our first-gen phone and giving us some credit for the next-gen purchase. Odds are they will, but it will be minor as iPhone 2.0 demand will be high p.m.n.m.w. (pretty much no matter what).

3. eBay’s Rethink Program – What better way to encourage recycled trade than auctioning your semi-old iPhone on eBay. In eBay’s words: The Rethink Initiative brings together industry, government and environmental organizations to offer a fresh perspective and new answers to the challenge of e-waste. Craigslist is another opportunity for a “meet me at a nearby Starbucks and we’ll trade up” approach. There are 635 ‘adoptable’ iPhones for sale on Craigslist in Los Angeles, alone.

Also check out: eBay’s Giving Works – Better yet, use Giving Works to support a worthy cause via your iPhone donation. Powered by MissionFish, this site has raised nearly $80 Million for 13,278 non-profits since 2003. Good stuff, and makes you sleep better at night (unless you keep your phone under your pillow…). Other worthy non-profits include Recycle Wireless Phones.

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The new trailer for Australia came out yesterday and today I learned of some more exciting Baz Luhrmann news - along with releasing the film, Luhrmann and friends plan on joining with apple to make a the Set to Screen Series for the film:

Great movies are full of adventure, and Australia, the next film from Oscar-nominated director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!, William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet), is no exception. But making a movie is an even bigger adventure an adventure in creativity and with the Apple Set to Screen Series, you can be a part of it.

Every few weeks through October, a new podcast episode from Baz and his production team will introduce you to another aspect of moviemaking, starting with on-set still photography, then moving on to costume design, cinematography, scoring, and more. You’ll get insights from the artists at work on Australia, watch them in action, view footage the rest of the world hasn’t seen yet, and follow along as the movie comes together.

Here’s where you come in.

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