Macavity the cat rides the busses. Super cute story. Gets on at one stop, gets off at another. Cats figuring out busses has implications. Future species neutral transportation infrastructure designers, please take note.
Read more →Demented. Reads very much like an advert for Shabu – 95% pure Chinese crystal meth. Much as I like honest reporting from the front line of the war on drugs (“can’t we declare a truce? how’s about armistice for at least the dope smokers?”) to have some integrity, this story really needed to follow these [...]
Read more →Off-grid.net likes hexayuts. A lot. hexayurt@gmail.com is my address, and I’m hoping this will show up in the trackbacks over there because I tried to post a comment but couldn’t. Welcome, readers! http://appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Project is the main site.
Read more →It turns out that companies only enjoy the advantages of low-cost labor at best for a three- or four-year window. Consider that the cost of living in every city in the United States (outside of New York City) is now lower than in the former Communist capitals of Prague, Budapest, or Warsaw. Second, statistics on [...]
Read more →“Hippies: Zerg Rushing for World Peace”
Read more →A worthy data mining and privacy guru, Jeff Jonas of IBM (check out his fine blog), adds this humorous take: “Data Mining, noun, 1. Torturing data until it confesses … and if you torture it enough, it will confess to anything.” Therein lies the conundrum for privacy advocates Yo-Duh on Son of Total Information Awareness
Read more →1> Global energy supply. Why? Far too many news stories about solar panel breakthroughs and far too much money on the table. By extension, hydrogen- or battery-storage etc. electrical cars, and decentralized electrical grids. Assuming that we get the 20 years it takes to make this happen globally without civilization collapsing, this is a cooked [...]
Read more →Yeah. I know. But you spend your days thinking about global poverty and starvation, digital identity management and how, if we screw up, we get digital/biometric totalitarianism, and how it’s up to individuals to act… And you need this from time to time <laughs>.
Read more →Karl Hess written up at Reason. With Youtube links to a movie about him.
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