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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Could be handy for making hexayurts

Monday, March 31, 2008

http://www.eemersontool.com/Home.html sort of a giant ruler that clamps on to things – possibly useful for cutting big boards in half.

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a (gorgeous) gameplan for addressing climate change

Monday, March 31, 2008

http://www.wattzon.org/gameplan.htm via Jonathan Sanderson. Doesn’t really mention next gen solar, unfortunately.

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Bono meets with the Secretary of Defense to talk poverty

Monday, March 31, 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U2 lead singer and activist Bono visited the Pentagon to discuss Africa and the fight against global poverty with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, representatives of the two men said on Wednesday. Among the topics at the 20-minute meeting on Tuesday afternoon were U.S. plans to set up a new U.S. military [...]

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Hell

Monday, March 31, 2008

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The pentagon’s new…

Monday, March 31, 2008

If we conduct military operations on your soil and we don’t feel the need to tell your government about it beforehand (e.g., Somalia, Pakistan), you’re in the Gap. Barnett on core and gap. Other good bits from his blog of late: Chinese peacekeepers in the Sudan http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/02/the_end_of_were_not_political.html Cheap chinese equipment changing lives in Africa http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/02/yuan_diplomacy_work_the_bottom.html [...]

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What ever happened to Nim Chimpsky?

Monday, March 31, 2008

Nim Chimpsky was a chimp raised in the 1970s in a way close to humans, in the hope he would develop language. The results were ambiguous on the language front. But something else happened. The former graduate students in New York believe that Nim had no idea he was a chimpanzee. One of them suggested [...]

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Bush booed throwing the opening pitch of a baseball game

Monday, March 31, 2008

Huge public event, and people sound pissed. The sidelong glance he gives the crowd practically says just you wait, humans…

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Karl Rove – “the horns and the tail are retractable”

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Said just after the 1:30 mark. Hilarious.

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America the Resilient – Foreign Affairs

Sunday, March 30, 2008

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080301faessay87201/stephen-e-flynn/america-the-resilient.html Yep, that’s worth reading.

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Fiona Apple is the female Leonard Cohen

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Interesting evening listening to classical music. Cuing up Fiona Apple afterwards was interesting, because I’d gotten kind of sensitized to a different range of instrumentation. Well well well, she’s emotionless. It’s all in the words, not in the voice.

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