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2013-02-26 19:50:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Now that's more like it!

2013-01-22 15:45:50 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/ipad-hack-statement-of-responsibility/

2013-01-21 04:56:39 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

It's a terrible shame that the publications that are the most absurdly counterproductive on climate are the most reasonable about software ethics in other fields.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/canada/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-montreal-college-after-finding-sloppy-coding-that-compromised-security-of-250000-students-personal-data

2012-12-16 18:56:18 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Ah, much better. Thanks Dan!

2012-12-16 18:38:55 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Grumble - why is the title appearing twice?

2012-12-15 21:15:42 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

2012-12-15 19:07:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"The Audi e-gas facility in Werlte... will be the world’s first facility to convert renewable electricity and CO2 into a synthetic natural gas that can be fed into the natural gas network on an industrial scale."

So what about a less-than-industrial scale? Is there some reasonable way to do this on a ranch/farm scale? Solar + ambient CO2 + H2O -> methane solves a LOT of problems!

2012-12-15 18:41:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Hey everybody! I just discovered a British-maintained list of Unitarian affiliates worldwide and think it's utterly fascinating. (It's in three parts alphabetically by country; click on the alphabetic links A-F G-O P-Z .)

I wonder if it's up-to-date. Are there other congregations we should list? Other similar religious groups we should link to?

Let's put the universal back into Unitarian Universalism!

2012-12-15 17:58:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

So global environmental treaties are still possible after all. Hmmm.

2012-12-15 17:52:08 (2 comments, 6 reshares, 5 +1s)

Probably a good place to start.

My tweet on this article was "If climate deniers can believe a report says the opposite of what it says, how wildly are they interpreting [the rest of the] evidence?" which is basically lifted from the text. 

This won't be news to you, but may be useful to pass along to others.

2012-12-14 03:44:58 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I'm about to retire as a climate scientist and devote myself to my futurist online magazine http://planet3.org and to developing a sustainable retreat and education center in central Texas.

I totally agree with the Pistono TEDx video below and have said as much myself:

"In times of shortage, laziness is immoral. In times of glut and surplus, ambition is immoral. It’s the common good that requires us to scale back our ambitions."

"The most mind-boggling thing was that the economist I was talking to thought our problems were because politicians weren’t paying enough attention to economists. It’s really like these people live on a different planet."

http://init.planet3.org/2009/05/great-relaxation-revisited.html

The whole enterprise was motivated by a Bruce Sterling talk at SXSW and another by him that has sadly disappearedfrom ... more »

2012-12-11 20:20:53 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

It wasn't fair, but it probably was necessary.

2012-12-10 16:48:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-12-07 05:58:43 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-12-03 16:55:32 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-12-03 16:39:01 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-12-02 04:08:49 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-12-02 04:06:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-12-02 03:21:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-12-02 03:08:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-12-02 03:03:40 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-12-01 06:31:48 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

2012-12-01 06:27:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My TEDx talk is live!  I hope you enjoy it.

2012-12-01 02:01:47 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-11-30 04:56:59 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

2012-11-30 03:10:53 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 14 +1s)

Iceland's economy recovered from the financial crisis better than most because the government bailed out the people and jailed the bank criminals. 
SHARE if America should try the Iceland solution.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/top-economists-iceland-did-it-right-everyone-else-is-doing-it-wrong.html

2012-11-30 01:33:42 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

Not sure if this is real. Alarming if so.

2012-11-29 21:47:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The atmosphere business:

"The statistics are quite clear. The only drops in carbon emissions that have occurred over the past two decades were during recessions or some other type of serious economic collapse. For example, the ex-Eastern bloc countries battled with various GDP contractions throughout the 1990s, and then, of course, there was the 2008 global financial crisis and resulting recession. Both events resulted in considerable GHG emission reductions, while carbon markets have had near to no impact whatsoever, other than creating new business and profit opportunities. This non-progress in terms of making a step-change towards dealing with climate change is covered up by the complexity of the language that surrounds the atmosphere business, which has resulted in a ‘black box’ of carbon market terminology that only experts can open up and take advantage of."

Amos... more »

2012-11-29 21:42:47 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-11-28 23:17:06 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 15 +1s)

2012-11-28 18:40:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My take on carbon taxes

2012-11-28 05:33:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The young won this election, in more ways than one. One third of the electorate were 40 and under. They voted so decisively against the republicans that while Romney won all of the older 2/3rds of the electorate he lost the election decisively.

2012-11-26 16:23:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

What if music and language are neither instinct nor invention?

2012-11-26 00:30:03 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-11-26 00:27:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-11-26 00:19:52 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-11-26 00:18:21 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-11-25 23:49:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

2012-11-25 23:45:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-11-25 23:40:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-11-25 23:39:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-11-25 21:41:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/11/24/is-python-the-new-basic-python-for-kids/

2012-11-25 21:39:46 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Now he knows what it was like to be a black man in the south in Jim Crow days. Right.

"It took about five minutes for conditions in the United States to place me in a foul mood. At the Atlanta airport, my destination, they have built a new international terminal with the requisite parking garage. On the entry floor of this garage, there are the usual handicap parking places (a good thing) and then countless spaces reserved for car pool vans followed by countless spaces reserved for alternative fuel vehicles.

As a global warming skeptic who never will be in a car pool van or AFV unless forced to do so by the government, it hit me that I now know what it was like to be a black citizen in the South during the height of Jim Crow laws. You know, when because of your skin color, you were thought to be stupid, ignorant, lazy and dirty. You sat in the back of the bus, were not allowed to... more »

2012-11-25 17:25:23 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 7 +1s)

There was a time when the Republican party wasn't overrun by religious zealots and there wasn't a religious political news TV channel spewing religious propaganda (Fox News)

2012-11-24 19:46:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

#consumerism | “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.” --Confucius

2012-11-24 17:13:43 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams is joining with Human Rights Watch to oppose the creation of killer robots. http://www.hrw.org/topic/arms/killer-robots

2012-11-21 01:58:14 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Truth is always the name of the game, even if it may hurt

2012-11-19 21:42:42 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 9 +1s)

Giggles

Via: Meanwhile in Canada
#giggles #canada #canadian  

2012-11-19 20:23:14 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-11-17 05:00:43 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)