http://www.igf-online.org/fileadmin/Images/Menue/Pdf-Dateien/RE_SunventionSept06_engl.pdf Looks GREAT. Several devices, well-explored design synergies and so on. Cutting edge work from the Tamera Ecovillage in Portugal. Amazing stuff, well done folks.
Read more →A landmark decision for all Californian’s quietly made history on August 20th in a Santa Cruz courtroom. For the first time since 1996, when the Compassionate Use Act was passed, the federal authorities have been charged with violating the 10th Amendment for harassing medical marijuana patients and state authorities. The case of Santa Cruz vs. [...]
Read more →A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous. The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the “IP Traceback” drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next [...]
Read more →It cannot be told, it can only be shown.
Read more →http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11999307 1 billion rich 1.5 billion in between 4 billion poor (roughly, depending how you count, every time I put those numbers together I seem to do it differently.) As the poor get wired, the internet becomes a poor place obviously enough. All kinds of dialogues about privilege etc. start there. I view social networking [...]
Read more →A substantial number of the world’s wealthiest people have moved their money out of stocks and bonds and into cash, the head of HSBC’s Swiss private banking unit said on Monday. “The first half of 2008 has seen a notable change in client expectations and investment choices,” said Peter Braunwalder, chief executive of HSBC Private [...]
Read more →The dramatic drop in violence in Iraq is due in large part to a secret program the U.S. military has used to kill terrorists, according to a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward. Bob Woodward’s book, “The War Within: Secret White House History 2006-2008,” came out Monday. The program — which Woodward compares [...]
Read more →http://www.akvo.org/blog/?p=151 Short, what-the-heck-is-this-thing movie brief. Paritcularly notable for the amazing screen cap of Kiva.org’s homepage on a day when they were full – every loan they had to give was fully funded, there was no place to put more money. Astonishingly hopeful for the whole interaid enterprise.
Read more →http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aq6uUiFX9_ZM More going on than I would have guessed.
Read more →Now the central bank needs an infusion of capital. Central banks can, of course, print more money, but that would stoke inflation. Instead, the People’s Bank of China has begun discussions with the finance ministry on ways to shore up its capital, said three people familiar with the discussions who insisted on anonymity because the [...]
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