Human activity may indeed be affecting the climate, but after reading the calm, methodical statements by the “deniers,†I’m no longer willing to believe that anyone has a complete model of the complex, chaotic systems that determine global temperature, and I regret that the simplistic fear-metaphors used by people such as Al Gore have tended […]
“Homes With Tails” — how to get broadband into all the world
America’s communications infrastructure is stuck at a copper wall. For the vast majority of homes, copper wires remain the principal means of getting broadband services. The deployment of fiber optic connections to the home would enable exponentially faster connections, and few dispute that upgrading to more robust infrastructure is essential to America’s economic growth. However, […]
Forget Red vs. Blue — It’s the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda | Media and Technology | AlterNet
The change from a print-based to an image-based society has transformed our nation. Huge segments of our population, especially those who live in the embrace of the Christian right and the consumer culture, are completely unmoored from reality. They lack the capacity to search for truth and cope rationally with our mounting social and economic […]
george bush rushes to kill off animals before obama can stop him
classy move, bush. just fantastic: Animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams, highways and other projects don’t pose a threat, under regulations the Bush administration is set to put in place before President-elect Obama can reverse them. The rules must be published […]
Butterflies
Then my mom called. You might imagine I don’t get along all that well with my mother, and you’d be right. We’re cordial enough, but we don’t really talk about anything meaningful. It was time for that to change. I told her about my work, and about my next project, a game that would literally […]
eventually, we’ll use this place up
anyone who’s had a real conversation with me about the web, or space travel, or time travel, or religion, in the past three years has heard something now backed up by data: if we human beings intend to make it to the last days of the universe, we’re going to have to waste less and […]
cindy mccain’s $300,000 outfit
Cindy McCain Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000 Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500 Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000 Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000–$25,000 Shoes, designer unknown: $600 Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100 Politics and Power Blog: vanityfair.com
new mower
the above is a joke. the below is not: we got a new mower and i love it. it burns calories instead of gasoline. it has zero emissions, except for sweat. it’s safe and light enough for J2 to mow with. it hearts the earth.
H2
that’s it i’ve got i know what i need now i had reservations before but now there’s no doubt i need to find me a woman who drives a choice hummer i huge belching beastling with fat tires and a snout it’s perfect it’s manly it’s just what i need now all of the other […]
unfocused
the last thing you want when you are enjoying being miserable is to be ripped out of yourself and made to think about the needs of another
whatever you do
it is not fair says her, to i that i should live and her should die that we should be so rich and fat and they should scrounge around for scraps that us should win and others lose when we determine just who can’t choose it is not right to her, says i but deep […]