“The Indian girls who tried out so far were so beautiful and so good, they were practically better than us,” said Sharica Brown, 27, a Redskins cheerleader from Baltimore, as she snacked on a plate of nachos before the game at Bangalore’s Hard Rock Cafe. Nearby, Indians in heavy-metal T-shirts downed cheeseburgers and jostled to [...]
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Read more →Rant excerpted from an email. The problems that I’ve seen in survival planning at a community level come from trying to streamline costs by creating implicit bureaucratic systems of control. We’ll have a water team, that takes money from a budget, and Does Water. Farming team that Does Farming and so on. But, in practice [...]
Read more →I’ve been working towards a simple model of survival for some time. The Hexayurt Infrastructure Package is based around a “substitution” model: * instead of your electric cooker, a wood gasification stove * instead of your toilet and the sewage plant, a composting toilet and so on. The problem with this model is that it [...]
Read more →* simple – easy to understand and to evaluate * easy – can be done without extensive preparation or heavy engineering * clean – does not produce unwanted side effects * cheap – or raising the money to do it will be harder than doing it * smart – should use deep insight into the [...]
Read more →The Times successfully sued the Defense Department to gain access to 8,000 pages of e-mail messages, transcripts and records describing years of private briefings, trips to Iraq and Guantánamo and an extensive Pentagon talking points operation. These records reveal a symbiotic relationship where the usual dividing lines between government and journalism have been obliterated. Internal [...]
Read more →“When we decide about a product, we always start with the price,” Deboehmler said. “Then, what is the consumer need?” For example, the product designers might begin thinking about designing a new flat-screen-television stand. Assuming that there’s evidence such a product is needed–like a trend of many people buying flat-screen TVs–Ikea will set out to [...]
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