Stern Review: How Climate Change is Revolutionizing Economics
Rebuttal of the “Copenhagen Consensus”
(tags: economics environment globalwarming)
George Monbiot’s plan based on Stern Review
(tags: economics environment globalwarming politics)
Bjorn Lomborg- Help Set “The Copenhagen Consensus”!
(tags: politics economics environment globalwarming global)
Why do people leave terrorist organizations?
Of all the men he has interviewed, Horgan says, none are truly deradicalized. Disengagement is […]
The Cobalt is a response to the discerning public need for the next convergence device to blend elegance with simplicity and portability. The Cobalt’s round OLED touch screen allows easy access to all its features with a simple flick of the thumb left, right, up or down. The default screen shows time, date, temperature, and […]
Artzybasheff’s Machinalia
(tags: art)
Australian firm wants to catch West Coast waves for energy project - 26 May 2008 - NZ Herald: New Zealand Business, Markets, Currency and Personal Finance News
(tags: energy environment)
Missouri town says family can’t live on their own property because children don’t belong to father
(tags: liberty policestate localfascism religion)
Teacher’s side of “voting out of […]
website that tracks the import/export activity at all shipping docs in the US
(tags: business tech)
Velvet President - old Reason article on Vaclav Havel
(tags: politics economics global)
Palestinian tech industry shows promise
(tags: tech business global israel)
House Votes to Ban Pentagon Propaganda
You probably didn’t hear about the House voting to ban Pentagon propaganda — since the networks have […]
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Sound Candy is a wearable sampler that lets you record into its built-in mic and manipulate its sound by changes in speed, angle, vibration and rotation.
(via Califaudio via Grinding)
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
DriveThruComics.com - The first downloadable comic shop
(tags: comicbooks tech business)
Ballmer And Gates Demo Windows 7: Multitouch, Pie Menus And a Piano
(tags: design tech usability)
Exxon to cut funding to climate change denial groups
The oil giant ExxonMobil has admitted that its support for lobby groups that question the science of climate change may have hindered action to […]
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
What to make of the Libertarian Party anointing Bob Barr as their presidential candidate in 2008? Some libertarians are pleased, others see it as the end of the LP. As something of an outsider I see it as essentially the death of the LP as it was, and the birth of a new LP.
Here’s slightly […]
Wendy McElroy: Contra Gradualism
a counter to the idea that it is a valid strategy to work for by arguing for ever slightly less injustice instead of demanding a total cessation to injustice
(tags: liberty politics)
Pentagon Looks to Network Science to Predict Future
(tags: systems security)
Previewing McCain and Obama on geek issues
(tags: tech politics 2008 obama mccain security […]
Parent says teacher had students vote on whether 5-year-old could stay in class
teacher has students vote on whether 5-year-old can stay in class
(tags: education youth psychology)
AjaxDaddy - Ajax Examples in Action
(tags: design opensource web2.0)
Build a Square Foot Garden - Wired How-To Wiki
(tags: food urban)
Why aren’t there more women in science and engineering? Controversial new research […]
More photos from the English Russian
Fox News contributor and former Washington Times bureau chief Liz Trotta calls Obama “Osama” and openly jokes/wishes for assassination in the same clip.
(Via The Agitator)
IMF losing money and influence
(tags: economics global)
Mutualist.Org: Free Market Anti-Capitalism
(tags: economics politics)
Wendy McElroy: Thoughts on decentralization
More cautious voices observe that decentralization guarantees neither privatization nor respect for individual rights. Sometimes it merely brings government into your own back yard where it can oppress you on a more familiar basis.
(tags: politics econonomics liberty)
Ron Paul’s Civil War
(tags: […]
‘In the past, the Church used graphic, sometimes pornographic images of the devil as an enemy against which everyone could unite, and as a way of quelling dissent. Today we have lost the devil. The devil disappeared from public culture in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, and what replaces it? At the moment, child […]
WorldChanging: Cap-and-Trade or Carbon Tax? Both!
(tags: energy environment politics economics)
On the February 26, 1992, six months after Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia, the Ministry of the Interior erased 18,305 legal inhabitants from the Permanent Population Register. With a stroke of the pen, 18,305 individuals became stateless “residents without status,” unable to work legally, losing their drivers licenses, passports and other legal papers. Many were […]
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This week, the American Institute of Architects announced the recipients of its Small Project Awards 2008. Winners include Abod, envisioned as a low-cost, prefabricated solution to South Africa’s housing shortage by BSB Designs.
Each home packs flat and can be assembled by four people with a screwdriver and awl (both tools are shipped with […]
20,000 South African immigrants displaced, 20,000 people have been displaced - foreigners were burnt alive, as some residents watched and laughed
and sometime I think immigrants have it bad in the west…
(tags: immigration global)
California institutes first in nation carbon tax
(tags: environment)
Violence in South Africa spreads to Cape Town
(tags: immigration global)
Small flat pack home
(tags: architecture design global)
Flickr photoset
(via Pink Tentacle)
