General Electric’s smart grid homepage.

I’m generally moderately well disposed to smart grids, but couldn’t they have put on some reindeer tracks and a little sleigh in the sky or something just to really get the point across? Pleeze?

See the rest here.

Savages co-stars.

lots more here

I’m a bohemian type, so I could scarcely be bothered to do anything “financially sound” in my entire adult life. Last year was the first year when I’ve felt genuinely sorry for responsible, well-to-do people. Suddenly they’ve got the precariousness of creatives, of the underclass, without that gleeful experience of decades spent living-it-up.

Bruce Sterling on the financial crisis.

Mark my words: the scurrying poor have been in training.

Really kind of heartbreaking. Sad.

We were just out of the 1960s when “Equus” arrived, and this creed of communing with one’s inner madman had more appeal than it does today, when people are doing their best to hold themselves together as familiar social structures threaten collapse.

Equus review in the NYT

What I particularly like about this is the practicality of it. Yes, it could use some insulation, but actually the idea of a hot tub you can roll around the place, transport, deploy where needed… nice. Also plenty deep which is unusual for hot tubs. Somebody should take brand spanking new dumpsters and do this conversion on the commercially.