Being green, government intervention, and Popbox pre-order

If you buy a book on sustainability, but it's made (printed and bound) in China or Singapore, isn't that somehow defeating the purpose of being green? I kid you not, but there are books about sustainability, printed and imported from China or Singapore:

• SustainAble: A Handbook of Materials and Applications for Graphic Designers and Their Clients
  
• Sustainable transport: planning for walking and cycling in urban environments
  
• Living Homes: Sustainable Architecture and Design
  
• Print and Production Finishes for Sustainable Design

You'll notice that they're all design books.

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Google has just brought a great deal of transparency to government requests for content removal from their services. Apparently the US (along with Brasil) is in fact, taking a leadership role in censorship, with over 3500 data requests and 123 content removal requests. United States, I hardly know ye.
via BoingBoing

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Popbox now available for pre-order from Amazon. Choose between the base model or the wireless model. According to Amazon's stats, people are preordering the wireless unit at a rate of 2-1. If you plan it well however, you could place your wireless router next to your Popbox and broadband modem, within your multimedia framework. Just plug the Popbox into the wireless router and save yourself $20, eh? But make sure you get one of those WiFi 802.11n models with 4 10/100/1000 ethernet outlets; it'll ensure that if you plug in a network-attached-storage to it, that having multiple users accessing content won't cause a shortage of bandwidth.