• Eco-Friendly Business Cards by Moo - Damn I wish I had good enough Flickr photos to print some Moo cards. Now they've got an environmentally friendly option - making them even cooler and more lustworthy…
• GetUp! Fuel watch - A superb piece of work by GetUp!
• Australia’s Climate Friendly - My friend Jess at Climate Friendly interviewed by the Carbon Catablog - a good introduction to Climate Friendly, who I recommend.
• Shift to electric cars becomes inevitable - Great article on hybrid and electric vehicles at drive.com.au
• OpenAustralia.org - "Are your Representatives working for you in Australia’s Parliament?" This service allows you to search for what you’re MP has been saying in Parliament (among other things). Based on the open source software developed for theyworkforyou.com

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• Barack Obama Democratic Nomination Victory Speech - This is great news….
• Solar energy as cheap as coal! - "a magnifying glass … concentrate[s] the sun?s energy into a single high efficiency solar cell. Each unit features a lens that magnifies the sun?s rays 2,000 times, focusing it onto a solar cell that converts more than 37% sunlight to energy."
• Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit?And You Should Too - A great article on one unusual aspect of Zappos' hiring and training strategy…
• First Look: OLPC XO-2 - Next-gen XO laptop announced.
• Tesla Motors - I've been remiss in not pointing to the news that Tesla have opened their first dealership and shipped their first production vehicles. Great news!!!

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• BIG W Men - Organic Apparel - I love it when big retailers educate the market on our behalf Big W doing organic cotton menswear.
• Little Bird Electronics Arduino Workshop - Just learnt about these fun-bots through a friend. Booked in for this workshop on 31 May - looking forward to letting my inner-child/geek have some fun.

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• Designing for the Social Web: the Book - Joshua Porter's book has been released - this is a must-read for me - will be grabbing a copy in my next Amazon order…
• Sustainable clothier Nau pulls the plug - "Nau Inc., the Portland apparel startup that tried to forge a new sustainable business model, said today it would cease operations." This is really disappointing news. Nau was a real inspiration for me.
• "Fuzu - Between Your Lines" T-Shirt @ RedBubble - My band now has a t-shirt! Printed on American Apparel tees and available in a range of colours for AUD$24.95
• Cutting-Edge Cardboard Interior in Greece - I really love the effect of this cardboard interior design.
• Optus scores iPhone: report - When the iPhone launched in the US I predicted a June 2008 launch. I'd hoped that 3 would get the deal, but it looks like Optus. Hopefully they'll have a kick-ass data plan… UPDATE: Seems initial rumours were jumping the shark: News Limited is reporting Vodaphone as the successful network.

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• Lovethreads - Australian ethical fashion retailer
• Frasers Broadway: Australia’s Greenest Development - Is this really going ahead? Looks like an amazing development, though the artist’s impressions leave a lot to be desired…
• Adidas Originals D-Nizza, re-made eco style - "Now that many of the classic Adidas styles are back in vogue, the label has chosen to re-release them in its Originals range. … the retro items are being made with environmentally conscious materials."
• Eco-chic no passing fad - "Green fashion is more than a passing fad. It's a lifestyle choice, says Cynthia Spencer, a trend-spotter from New York."
• Hemp given green light in Australia - NSW has just passed legislation allowing industrial hemp to be grown in the state. Pity that most of our processing infrastructure (spinners and weavers) have shut down - this could be a great crop for them to boost the industry.
• Handcut Australia - Re-fashion house creating one off pieces from vintage clothing.

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• Comprehensive Medicare cover for complementary and integrative healthcare - I've long believed that natural therapies and complementary medicine improve overall health and thus reduce the burden on the health system. This petition is in support of Medicare cover for complementary and integrative healthcare.
• MADE-BY :: het label voor duurzaam geproduceerde mode. - An initiative established by Solidaridad to assist and promote labels producing sustainably and ethically.
• Remembering Val Plumwood - This blog was created by a friend of mine in memory of influential environmental thinker and author Val Plumwood upon her recent passing. A great example of the power of social media - 5 mins to setup and over 2200 visits - all thanks to WordPress.com.
• Ecogen: compostable plastic for the future? - "Plastic that lasts for years in your bathroom but biodegrade completely on your compost heap may sound like something out of Star Trek, but it's actually available right now, here in the UK."
• Organic Tees and Hoodies for Guys - Inhabitat review a few ethical/eco menswear offerings.

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• Offset your Second Life carbon emissions - Seems that your Second Life has a big carbon footprint too…
• Algae Shines Bright on our Clothing - "British scientists and researchers at Oxford University have developed a way to color fabric with algae."
• Welcome to Frost Design - Frost design have a collection of bamboo tshirts for sale on their website. Sourced from Thailand (most bamboo fabric I've seen is Chinese).
• Funk Divine on Etsy - Hemp tees on Etsy
• THE BRELLI: 100% Biodegradable Umbrella - Recently I actually went looking for an eco-friendly umbrella. This is the first I've seen - not the most masculine look, but I suppose you could use the print to change that a bit…

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• DeviDoll - A UK-based fashion label with some nice mens shirts.
• Mark Liu?s Zero-Waste Designs - "… Mark Liu, … ?zero-waste? fabric patterns and eco-designs that … waste not a scrap of fabric." This is one of the methods I see Soko Loko using design innovation to reduce costs - allowing more room for higher labour costs and organic materia
• Luxury redefined - At a reported GBP120 - these are out of the ballpark for most folks.
• Thinnovation: The MacBook Air - Treehugger reviews the environmentally friendliness of the new MacBook Air.
• GM Banks on Coskata’s Cellulosic Ethanol Breakthrough - I think I’ve read about this process before - and it’s an exciting development. I was skeptical of biofuels as a solution before reading about this. “In initial [third party]tests … the ethanol generated 7.7 times the energy used to produce it”.

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So the National Australia Bank (who would prefer to be known as “nab” it would appear) have launched a new advertising campaign. The basic thrust of the campaign is that you can live large by banking with NAB, one assumes by extending your personal debt with them.

The tag line that they’re running with is “a little word for a big life. nab”.

So let’s offer them creative license for a moment and ignore that in this context “NAB” is an acronym - if we treat it as a word, what does it mean?

According to dictionary.com:

1. to arrest or capture.
2. to catch or seize, esp. suddenly.
3. to snatch or steal.

Perhaps it’s our money they intend to “catch or sieze”? Not quite the connotations the marketing folks at NAB were aiming for I suspect…

Just a quick note to mention that the company I work for are still looking for Designers, Producers and Flash coders. There’s an incentive too - if you refer someone that becomes an Eskimo, you get some cash. Find out more on the Hey Joe, know an Eskimo? site.