Given the following:

• My local grocery store offers paper and plastic bags.
• My curbside recycling now accepts paper bags (but not plastic bags).
• I'm lazy, so I'm going to throw away excess plastic bags.

Ignoring reuse (for now), should I request paper or plastic bags, since I'll be recycling paper but trashing plastic? It seems obvious I should use paper bags.

But then I ran into this 2004 study:

• The volume of one paper bag is roughly equivalent to the volume of two plastic bags.
• Creating one paper bag requires 1680kJ.
• Creating two plastic bags requires 1470kJ.

The analysis goes on to express a preference towards plastic bags given current recycling processes, assuming consumers recycle both types of bags.

So, should I recycle paper bags, or should I throw away plastic bags?

naten

1. My thumbs are double-jointed, but in a limited, non-useful sense. I cannot bend my thumbs to my wrists as true hypermobile people can, but the thumb-joint where my thumb connects to my hand can bend at an odd angle.
2. I've hiked Mount Washington, from base to summit and back. I wish to continue hiking someday.
3. I extremely dislike buying clothes. I'll walk into a clothing store to purchase an item, and I'll walk out empty-handed and nauseous.
4. In national elections, I vote even though I do not believe my vote matters. I have clearly defined views for improving our country's election process (Condorcet voting, Electoral College removal, automated districting, open voting machines), though I'm too apathetic to do anything about it.
5. In elementary school, I regularly saw an in-school speech therapist because few people could understand me on account of my stutter. I have since improved greatly.
6. Speaking of memes, I still have not created anything from October's art meme, nor have I received anything in return.

"Come on, we might be a country full of people from everywhere else, but we have our own style and cuisine." -- aesiamun

"Not a lot of it, it seems -- not in my opinion anyway." -- dwater

An idea for a game related to Tic-Tac-Toe came to poofydoofy and myself:

• Requires: Two players. One Tic-Tac-Toe board (3x3 grid).
• Players take turns choosing a square.
• When a square is chosen: An empty square turns into an "X", an "X" turns into an "O", and an "O" turns into an empty square.
• First player to make three-in-a-row in either "X"s or "O"s wins.

I'm keeping my 2007 resolutions simple:

• Read one book per month minimum.
• Floss everyday.
• No more soda except for alcoholic drinks and/or with pizza.

I enjoy reading, albeit slowly (slower than you, that's for sure), and I don't read nearly enough. I've been flossing two-weeks-straight for the first time in my life, though my gums hurt. And I figure I don't need that extra aspartame and carbonation, even if I'm still fighting tendencies to ingest my 3pm Dr. Pepper.

In other news, tomorrow morning we leave to go Utah skiing!

I'm looking for a Content Management System with these attributes:

• Written in PHP and open-sourced.
• Doesn't require a database.
• Skinnable, preferably with a set of existing skins pleasing to the eye.
• Mature enough to be a usable product.
• Secure "enough" so other people can't muck anything up (a la Gallery).

I'm not looking for user-management, web-base editing mechanisms, complexity, or a huge set of features, but existance of those attributes are fine.

Any ideas?