Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Fri, 24 Oct 2003

Updates du jour

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The latest Watson update today includes:

  • Ebay - caught up with a change in the web site that affected searching
  • TV - fixed a problem that would cause the status display to not show the current location

biodegradable CDs

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I heard about this listening to NPR the other day: Sanyo has come up with a way to create biodegradable CDs, made out of corn. Currently, CDs (music and data) don't biodegrade, and they are filling up landfills (though our local recycling company "recycles" them, as much as that means for plastic). So making a polymer out of corn means that they can biodegrade. (I wonder if I could add my unused backup CDs on the compost in the back yard?) I'm assuming the process is similar to how Biocorp makes biodegradable plasticware out of corn.

Here is a link to a story about 'em. Sign me up! (Except for the CDs that I actually want to last a long, long time, like my iPhoto archives!)