PunkAssBlog.com

It’s been a nice day for me, and I’ll pass the feeling on by blogging some nice news.

First up, from MSNBC, an article on eco-friendly travel. I didn’t know what carbon-offsetting was until I ordered some stuff online from a company that offered it as an option. I’m still hazy on how it works, but so far it looks like an idea most of us can get behind.

Visiting an eco-lodge in a rainforest somewhere may sound appealing. But when you consider that carbon dioxide emissions from airplanes are a major contributor to global warming, you might do more for the environment by staying home. While you’re at it, cut out the road trips in that gas-guzzling car.

If staying home isn’t an option, however, here are three things you can do to start traveling in a more environmentally responsible way.

It’s great to see an article like this in such a bland, lazy site as MSN. I see it as a sign that people are ready to start thinking green, and that they are realizing that being enviornmentally friendly does not mean giving up our precious, precious liesure or living in a hippie commune without electricity or running water. After all, MSN wouldn’t print it unless it was as safe and conventional as possible.

In more good enviornmental news, Madonna has the secret to cleaning up sites contaminated by nuclear material.

The singer and her director hubby Guy Ritchie have been “lobbying the government and nuclear industry over a scheme to clean up radioactive waste with a supposedly magic Kabbalah fluid,” according to London’s Sunday Times.

Why the British government just blew them off, I’ll never be able to guess.

Insufferable music snobs will be pleased that Mr. B. Spears’ husband, K-Fed, is still a douche.

Kevin Federline’s TV debut as a rapper is getting derided as a not-ready-for-prime- time disaster by critics in cyberspace and the hip-hop community

The artcle then goes on to say, seemingly with a perfectly straight face, that K-Fed’s biggest drawback is his image as “Britaney Spears’ husband.” They really harp on the idea that the fact that he’s a kept man is what’s holding him back. Although it is a lazy, sexist attitude, I have to forgive the quoted persons on the assumption that they were trying to be nice. I would assume that Kevin got his shot at the Teen’s Choice Awards because his wife has a bunch of influential keepers that would like to keep her happy until she becomes unprofitable, and letting her poseur husband make an ass of himself at a minor awards show to pacify her probably cost everyone jack squat. He’d never have gotten that far without her, because he so clearly sucks.

But with the power of B-Sped behind him, he can reach the dizzy heights of B-list stardom and is therefore entitled to the money of the music industry’s consolation prize: The fickle 13 year old white suburban girl.

Federline is expected to release his debut hip-hop album “Playing With Fire” in October. Hall said that despite the barbs K-Fed is getting, he still has a shot at success.

“All you can do, is really just keep on plugging,” Hall said. “He’s definitely going to have a teenage female fan base. So, you know, make songs that cater to them. Keep it clubby, keep it hoppy, keep it happy.”

This? This is what we’re going to give our teenage girls? I’d rather have a purity ring.

And finally, a Russian mathematician proves my most controversial theory: that becoming an expert in mathematics fucks with the parts of your brain that aren’t dedicated to math. This guy is just more crotchety than most, and is likely to decline a prestigious “Damn, you’re brilliant!” style award and up to a million dollars in prize money for being so damn brilliant.

Grigory Perelman, the reclusive Russian mathematician who may have proved the elusive Poincaré Conjecture, was awarded with a 2006 Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians–and he turned it down, according to Nature.

I’m not sure if there are any efforts underway to persuade him to take the prize. He’d like to be left alone and the math community seems to be willing to accept that.