It’s a graph. Click on it for the full explanation on The Economist. Here’s what it says: all the downwards pointing bars are energy savings that pay for themselves. The depth of the bar shows how much you save, and the width of the bar shows how much of that saving is available. It’s like [...]
Read more →I Want A New Platform – at Union Square Adventures – can’t handle a new platform! The core of this issue is that we’re in a **PARALLEL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT** That’s really the issue. You’re planning on using multiple CPUs to do the work, and the architecture bottlenecks at your ability to get the centralized components [...]
Read more →Treehugger Participate! picks the hexayurt! Hexayurts aren’t just for the playa, they’re for the world. See you on the playa, my friends
Read more →Hexayurt.com is now live. There you can see a tiny video about the project, and links to the primary project repository at Appropedia. I’ve also posted the mass evac. sketch that I showed to the Red Cross in January. It’s worth a read if you’re interested in decentralized disaster response. They liked it. A lot.
Read more →The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official. The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which would probably have provoked an uprising by [...]
Read more →WAPO A case in point is Ahmed Belbacha, 37, an Algerian who worked as a hotel waiter in Britain but has been locked up at Guantanamo for five years. The Pentagon has alleged that Belbacha met al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden twice and received weapons training in Afghanistan. His attorneys dispute the charges and say [...]
Read more →Zolli, using a study from Technorati Looking at those numbers it’s probably fair to say that there are 4 times as many potential English language bloggers as Japanese, so in light of that the Japanese are by far more active in blogging than English speakers. So, that’s interesting… what’s going on with that? Otaku? School [...]
Read more →The website for this new book is all in Flash and has no blog, so they’re clearly retarded in terms of internet marketing, but the idea is quite clever: that Democrats have forgotten how to weave myths and dreams to tell their story and get their message across. While (my addition) the Republicans have become [...]
Read more →Legotown Teachers notice kids fighting about lego distribution, institute socialism. National Review responds. Neither side seems to have a satisfactory answer unsurprisingly. The depth of the wrongheadedness of both sides is unnerving, but would you or I have done better in this situation I wonder?
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