Dear EarthTalk: Artificial turf has been popular on sports fields for decades for a variety of reasons, but is it also a good environmentally friendly option for residential lawns?
                                                                                     – Sharon Chinchilla, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
The use of artificial turf for residential lawns is a growing trend across America, notably in regions where water supplies have [...]

As the drama surrounding Michael Vick grows, the Upper Deck trading card company announced that they will remove the embattled quarterback from all trading card sets.
“Of course we appreciate the fact that Mr. Vick is innocent until proven guilty, but the allegations alone have resulted in an outpouring of very strong emotion within our organization [...]

Zendoku is another attempt to bring Sudoku’s addictive logic to the video gaming world. It’s a valiant effort with cute, DBZ-like martial arts characters and kitschy symbols instead of numbers on the game board. The graphics aren’t great, however, and the storyline is boring and repetitive. The game tries to suck you in with different [...]

(ARA) – World famous chef Curtis Stone, star of the hit TLC show “Take Home Chef,” knows that each season is unique. With all the bounty of the summer season, cooks take advantage of the available produce to experiment with lighter fare and all the fresh vegetables that are readily available.
“Each season presents different flavors,” [...]

Dear EarthTalk: Bottled water companies would have us all believe that tap water is unsafe to drink. But I’ve heard that most tap water is actually pretty safe. Is this true?
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Her Interactive recently released another treat for Nancy Drew mystery fans in “The White Wolf of Icicle Creek.”
Nancy goes undercover as a maid and chef through hotel rooms at the Icicle Creek lodge in the Canadian Rockies as she investigates weird accidents and a mysterious wolf, “which appears before each incident but then mysteriously disappears [...]

You can just feel that yellow-hot heat coming around the corner, right down Evergreen Terrace.
The Simpsons Movie is fast-approaching, and you’d better be ready for an all-out onslaught of unbearably cheesy gimmicks. This is just another one of them.
Simpsonizeme.com, a site recently birthed by Fox and Burger King, allows curious visitors–those with tons of free [...]

Written by Matt Paprocki
With three years to simmer, All-Pro Football brings the 2K style of the sport into a new generation and it feels a lot like… 2K Sports football. There are few notable changes aside from the licensing once on the field, and fans will clamor at the chance to play this updated [...]

Researchers announced today an exploit for Macintosh OSX that could potentially expose thousands of computers to worm-like activity.
A blogger wrote that he created proof of concept code that opens Intel processor-powered Mac’s to exploitation. The code is suspected to act like a computer worm, infecting a host system and using it to spread to other [...]

From the “it should be obvious” department comes the second attempt at capturing the national pastime on the Wii.

“Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix” is bad, in a good way
“Phoenix” is darker and much more mature compared to the other, more innocent movies in the series.
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The wizarding community is in angst and the Ministry [...]

Written by Ken Edwards
With a much quieter show, the three major keynotes were also oddly restrained as well; few big announcements or “wow” moments. This, like the E3’s new show format, is in stark contrast — and feels quite alien — to years past.
Lets take a quick look back at last year’s E3:
Microsoft in 2006: [...]

Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that there is a lot of waste associated with tampons and sanitary pads and their packaging? Are there any environmentally friendly alternatives out there?

Dear EarthTalk: I visited New York City recently and could not believe the number of taxicabs on the streets. Are there any efforts to “green up” these vehicles? They must be real gas-guzzlers, considering all the idling and stop-and-go traffic they face.

There was a time, not so long ago, when television hookups were pretty simple. There were two screws on the back of the set, which went to two spade lugs on a 300-ohm twinlead antenna line, and that was it. Apart from plugging the set into the wall and waiting for the tubes to light [...]

Jamie Gold was eliminated Monday, and as we enter Day 3, Gus Hansen is on top with over $600,000 in chips. Six former champions remained at the start of the day.

How a pack of skinny girls became better tabloid fodder than any young actor.

-Bart Blasengame

Written by Tom Johnson
Two bands reunite for new releases this week while another throws a handful of bonus tracks onto a now-classic album that is mercifully old enough that we might not feel so fleeced into buying this “deluxe edition.”
Crowded House – Time On Earth: Neil Finn originally set out to create another solo album, [...]

The Adventures of Darwin operates on a simple concept: evolve or die. Unfortunately, even with a cute title and a very easy interface that allows the player to get into the game, it hasn’t followed its own rule.

Late summer is the hottest part of the year–weather wise–for most of us. It definitely isn’t the social peak of the year.
Let’s face it, 4th of July means the start of the off season.
There is certainly time to plan for the new school year or the coming fall season. A club or party here and [...]

I hope you’re enjoying July’s issue of Blast Magazine so far.
A lot has gone into development and content lately, and I want to share some content developments with you.
The big news is that we are taking the Creative Commons road. We’re licensing all of our content under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License, meaning other people, [...]

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