Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according to new research from The Nielsen Company. The research revealed that Americans spend a third their online time (36 percent) communicating and networking across social networks, blogs, personal email and instant messaging. http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/what-americans-do-online-social-media-and-games-dominate-activity/

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named the 50 green power partners using the most renewable electricity. The Green Power Partnership’s top purchasers use more than 12 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, equivalent to the annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the electricity use of more than 1 million average American homes. The top 10 on the list are Intel Corporation, Kohl’s Department Stores, Whole Foods Market, City of Houston, Dell Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Cisco Systems, Inc., commonwealth of Pennsylvania, U.S. Air Force, and the city of Dallas. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/14f16537509811468525777300580126!OpenDocument

Check out the weather in Google Earth 5.2. The latest version projects images of rain and snow over the areas with those weather patterns as it’s actually happening. First enable the clouds layer, then zoom in to a particular location where it might be raining or snowing. http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/07/rain-or-snow-now-you-can-see-weather-in.html

Naming a block of buildings after a benefactor is not new. There are Peabody Buildings and Peabody Estates in London named after American financier George Peabody who saved Maryland from bankruptcy in 1835, and gave over $2 million to London for the construction of low rental housing. Southampton has named some of its tower blocks after cities: Rotterdam Towers, Canberra Towers, and Oslo Towers. Liverpool has famous people: Atlee House, Churchill House, and Eden House; Birmingham has Wordsworth House and Browning Towers.
House Names Around the World to be continued

Researchers working in the Black Sea have found currents of water 350 times greater than the River Thames flowing along the sea bed, carving out channels much like a river on the land. The undersea river, which is up to 115ft deep in places, even has rapids and waterfalls much like its terrestrial equivalents. If found on land, scientists estimate it would be the world's sixth largest river in terms of the amount of water flowing through it. The scientists, based at the University of Leeds, used a robotic submarine to study for the first time a deep channel that had been found on the sea bed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/7920006/Undersea-river-discovered-flowing-on-sea-bed.html

Fangled is a word Shakespeare used, meaning newly-made. It's obsolete now, except as used in the phrase new-fangled. A new-fangled notion is one just started or entertained. (Saxon. fengan, to begin.) http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/55/messages/784.html

old•fan•gled ōl(d)-ˈfaŋ-gəld adjective
Etymology: old + -fangled (as in newfangled)
Date: 1842 : OLD-FASHIONED
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oldfangled