Lizard Lighter (link roundup)

Lizard lighter by Terry Border.

And a few more links:

1. Popular Science considers whether a popcorn kernel would pop during re-entry if dropped from space.

2. LA Times includes CFLs in it's "Bad design trends we hope die in 2009" list.

3. The worst sweatshirt anyone has ever received for Christmas. Ever? Via.

4. The HP Consumer Buyback and Planet Partners Recycling Program offers money in exchange for any brand of PC, monitor, printer, digital camera, or smartphone that HP determines still has some sort of value. Via.

*Previously: Astonishing ugly rugby jersey for Stade Français; Durex pillows feature photos of ugly people to help guys last longer.

*Buy "ugly sweaters" at eBay.

Walmart takes another step toward saving the planet (Gore counts his money on his mega-yacht)

Hewlett-Packard won Walmart's Home Entertainment Design Challenge for a new packaging scheme for its Pavilion dv6929 notebook. Instead of selling consumers a laptop contained in a giant box full of styrofoam, Walmart will sell the new HP laptop in a messenger bag. Making the move will eliminate a huge amount of wasted cardboard and styrofoam, and the reduction in packing materials will also allow Walmart to eliminate one out of every four trucks needed to deliver the computers to the store. You can read a bit more here and here. Via.

Now if the messenger bag is the type that's been ok'd by TSA, I'll be really impressed.

*Previously: Walmart hysterically misunderstands cake order.

*Buy The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century at Amazon.