Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Asia Who's going car free? The 2012 Olympics in London , a town in Germany , and some people on one day a year . A tiny island off the coast of Taiwan has decided to join the car-free club, at least to shed the gas guzzling kind. The tropical island of Liuqiu will spend a lot of money - between $9.3 to $15.5 billion - over the next three years to phase out gas cars and replace...
At the second site we visited during Saturday's trip to Barnegat Inlet , there was a skate washed up on the beach. The tracks and dropping around the skate indicate that some birds had already discovered the skate's remains. The skate has a bloody patch on its right side, presumably from scavengers picking at it. While some openings on this skate are probably natural (the eyes and mouth need openings),...
By charles the moderator Rodin’s The Thinker at the Musée Rodin. Author CJ. Licensed under Creative Commons. I have a theory. With the blogosphere all atwitter about the emails and data “stolen” from the Climatic Research Institute at the University of East Anglia, two theories have become dominant describing the origin of the incident. CRU was hacked and the data [...]
Image source: Wikipedia. This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 . We all have our weaknesses. Apparently the indulgence of a couple of small but very potent Mai Tais on an empty stomach was not the wisest idea, followed by two Budweisers. What a party last night! The last thing I remember was MotH saying it was time to go home, but in my mind, it sounded like the most absurd...
This week's podcast brings an essay on another aspect of the digital divide. The issue is not one that is neat, clean, or lacking in facets for consideration. Related links: Broadband in America report discussing, among other things, Average Revenue Per Customer at American broadband providers This Week in Tech The Creative Commons License that TWiT.TV, LLC podcasts are released under The Creative...
We recently had the opportunity to ask some questions of Komodomedia’s Rogie King. Rogie is a web interface designer and developer who works ‘outta his home’ in picturesque Helena Montana. This playful D/D’er describes what he does in the following way, ‘In laymen’s terms, I obsess over pushing around pretty pixels and then use [...]Sponsored by Advertise on Fuel...
We recently had the opportunity to ask some questions of Komodomedia’s Rogie King. Rogie is a web interface designer and developer who works ‘outta his home’ in picturesque Helena Montana. This playful D/D’er describes what he does in the following way, ‘In laymen’s terms, I obsess over pushing around pretty pixels and then use [...] Sponsored by Advertise on Fuel...
Agence France-Presse : The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study. Published Sunday in Nature Geoscience, the same study shows that the smaller but less stable West Antarctic icesheet is also shedding significant mass. Scientists worry that rising global...
Bob Berwyn in the Summit Daily News (Colorado) : The latest predictions for a mid-winter dry spell may cause some headaches for Colorado water managers as they try to juggle supplies to maintain stream flows and fill reservoirs. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting that a strong El Niño may lead to dry conditions in the state's northern and central mountains at...
Energy Daily via Agence France-Presse : Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday. According to the report by the environmental watchdog, up to 55 billion roubles (1.9 billion dollars) a year is spent on repairs to infrastructure and pipelines damaged...
Pop The Cherry features a set of four floor-filling tracks by Aerodrömme , a vibrant new Canadian techno and progressive act founded Boris Kurtzman ( DJ Shankar ) and Steve Chan in 2008. With releases on Tribal Vision Records, Spiral Trax, Plusquam Division, and Blue Tunes, Aerodrömme has emerged as one of the most promising names in progressive techno. Their style is an effective blend...
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Dancing and debauchery has a way of wearing out a girl. I have effectively removed all sparkles and feathers after last night's Late Night at the Moulin Rouge, and am settling in to nap mode before the Bengals game and Mass. Yes, I said Mass. xoxo, K Kate's Random Musings by Kate the Great is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License ....
Buffalo Holocaust v1.0 by TRIDENT OVERRIDE Since we haven't had anything fresh for you in a while, we're dropping this Trident Override beat (for the children). It's not quite done... In Pod Six we make everything in versions. Version 1.0 usually means we just laid it out and didn't fuck with it too much. That's the case for Buffalo Holocaust here. It's free for download via Bandcamp, which is a handy...
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