BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum is picking up the meme regarding Al Gore’s carbon usage at his home in the “posh” Belle Meade area of Nashville. As I live in Al’s ‘hood, I’d like to clarify one thing about his carbon use. It may be true that his kilowatt hours of electricity and lbs. of natural gas have increased since the movie Inconvenient Truth came out, but I’ve noticed that he’s added lots of trees and bushes to his lot, as well. So, to be accurate about his carbon footprint, I think you’d have to consider those in your calculations. And while I’m not a carbon-neutral nut (however, I’m a zealot for alternative energy sources), I think it would be easy for Gore to balance out any carbon consumption issues he might face by planting a few acres of trees on his farm land southeast of Nashville.

Last week, I was coveting that new high-end camera from Canon so much, I completely missed the news about a PowerShot camera (the type I carry with me all the time) coming out next month that is “camcorder-like” for around $500. (Imaging Resource preview.) Who knows? This may turn me into a video blogger.

(via: Gravitational Pull)

Here’s one for the crack team at Snopes.com. Surely it’s a prank.

The Fortune magazine tech blog (did you know there was such?), The Browser, says that Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO of Google, has a typo on his business card. The misspelled word: Chariman.

Please, before this meme sweeps through the blogosphere and becomes defacto fact, someone at Google or Snopes.com get this rumor smoked out. Is there really such a card with such a typo? Sounds like a prank to me.

More important, this may be a good indication of why you’ve never heard of The Browser, and you have heard of TechCrunch or ValleyWag.

(via: BusinessPundit.com)