Imagine...

Ok, I just saw an Amnesty, Intl. ad with the music from Lennon's Imagine and the tears started slipping from my eyes. Is this a permanent side effect of motherhood or is this a result of growing older and sadder? Or of remembering the day that John Lennon was murdered?



Or perhaps it's the contrast with what is happening right now in Darfur and Myanmar and many other places...

Free electronics recycling...how cool!

I was bumming through my Reader and in Scalzi's comments I found the most wondrous site: a free recyling program through Costco for electronics. There is also a trade-in valuation, but really, for me, the most important thing is to find a place which will take items such as old computer monitors and recycle them for free. Thank you Costco, and thank you David for posting this on Whatever. I have paid to recycle these in the past, and also kept them in perma-storage because I could not think what to do with them to keep the toxic heavy metal components out of the waste stream.
This is for the US, but I think it's a wonderful resource to share with everyone, so spread the word!