Things Are Good

Yesterday’s post of a controversial videogame didn’t go over so well. It’s good to see that readers will speak up if they question the goodness of an item!
Anyway, today I thought I’d show a different game that is actually educational. It’s the most challenging game I’ve ever played – I can’t win at it all [...]

Ian Bogost makes games, but not just any game – he makes games that try to raise awareness about how messed up North American society is. His next game is called Fatworld and Wired has the info on this impending game of fatness.
Remember you are what you eat, not what you play.
In his [...]

Mercury, a dangerous heavy metal, has not been allowed to be traded in the EU, and recently the UN has called on a global ban on mercury. This near-global effort to limit mercury use has now hit India, as the country is feeling more pressure to at least regulate their mercury trade. India is currently [...]

Carl Honoré wants us to slow down and take things easy, that doesn’t mean that he wants us to become lazy though. He wrote a book “In Praise of Slow” to let us know about the slow movement. In a world in which everything (including walking speed) is speeding up we no longer take time [...]

Hey, Things Are Good people. Earl Pickens here. I’m a singer/songwriter/unicyclist from Central Pennsylvania.
I’m writing to see if you might be interested in my unicycle music video. I made it to go with a song I wrote for my wife. It’s been on YouTube for about a month and a half and it’s gotten thousands [...]

In the last 24 hours, Google produced 9,949 kilowatt-hours of electricity from the sun.
Google’s solar panels are up and running! In fine Google fashion, you can see how much energy the panels create each and every day. They also make it easy to understand, for example, 9,949 KW is equal to 6,215 dishwasher cycles. [...]