Good websites should be like driving a car
I really loved this analogy, it is very pertinent to us here because we are currently working with about half a dozen auto recyclers, upgrading their websites. A user won’t wrestle with your site. Web design, particularly navigation, is not the place to get clever. Web design should be no…
Standard Auto Wreckers vs. Car-Part
The ARA conference this year was a great success and a lot of fun for all those that attended. With a tag line like “Experience the Horsepower Driving the Industry” most of us took the challenge quite seriously. It seems the entries for Standard Auto Wreckers and Car-Part exchanged a…
Funny Bumper Stickers for Hummers
Every time I spot one of these monsters on the road I laugh, they really do look like tanks!
Climate Change Quotes – Blog Action Day
I wanted to make a contribution for Blog Action Day and the topic is climate change so I thought I would let some of those folks far wiser than I make the contribution: Here are some of my all-time favorite quotes on the topic. “I think the environment should be…
Power Saving Gone Too Far?
I really liked this cartoon and think I will do so in the future!
Amazing Story of Wind Power
Instead of going for fun this Friday I thought I would go for flat-out amazing with a story of William Kamkwamba, a young boy from Malawi that builds windmills from junk.
Forum Views in Our Section Tops 2,500
For those of you that missed the news a couple of months ago we partnered up with CarsForums.com and we have our own forum area titled Used Auto Parts and Car Recycling – Just today we cracked 2,500 views and are looking forward to having many more visit. We have…
Cash Found in Recycling Station
This piece of news is quite funny and probably falls into the area of weird. It seems in Sunnyvale the adage ‘finders keepers’ does not count when it is public servants finding cold, hard cash! because amid the crushed soda cans, plastic bags and soiled cardboard, a shower of $100…
Hybrids are Guzzlers Too
It seems those amazing ‘fuel efficient’ hybrids are guzzlers of a different type! The Prius hybrid automobile is popular for its fuel efficiency, but its electric motor and battery guzzle rare earth metals, a little-known class of elements found in a wide range of gadgetry and consumer goods. That makes…