Could be handy for making hexayurts
by Vinay Gupta • March 31, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
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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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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Archive for March, 2008
a (gorgeous) gameplan for addressing climate change
by Vinay Gupta • March 31, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://www.wattzon.org/gameplan.htm via Jonathan Sanderson. Doesn’t really mention next gen solar, unfortunately.
Read more →Bono meets with the Secretary of Defense to talk poverty
by Vinay Gupta • March 31, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
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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by Vinay Gupta • March 31, 2008 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
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Read more →The pentagon’s new…
by Vinay Gupta • March 31, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment
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 [...]
Read more →What ever happened to Nim Chimpsky?
by Vinay Gupta • March 31, 2008 • Science • 0 Comments
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 [...]
Read more →Bush booed throwing the opening pitch of a baseball game
by Vinay Gupta • March 31, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
Huge public event, and people sound pissed. The sidelong glance he gives the crowd practically says just you wait, humans…
Read more →Karl Rove – “the horns and the tail are retractable”
by Vinay Gupta • March 30, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
Said just after the 1:30 mark. Hilarious.
Read more →America the Resilient – Foreign Affairs
by Vinay Gupta • March 30, 2008 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080301faessay87201/stephen-e-flynn/america-the-resilient.html Yep, that’s worth reading.
Read more →Fiona Apple is the female Leonard Cohen
by Vinay Gupta • March 30, 2008 • Music • 0 Comments
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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