Thoughtful essay that opens with Martha Stewart calling him a wimp.
Long Live Closed-Source Software! | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine
Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike - New York Times
Looking at this I realized why our planetarium needs to be a tilted dome. We want to model the earth, fly-overs, and fly-throughs, not just the sky. We'll deal with normal flat projection another way.
Google Earth Blog: Animation Roundup: Rising Sea Levels, Filling Grand Canyon, Global Clouds
Coming from Honda. But it still produces carbon dioxide.
A Microbrewery for Hydrogen - New York Times
Grants given by NYSERDA last February
This article is 3 years old:
Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Mean Continuing Contracts in NY State
First Large, Commercial NYC Fuel Cell Commissioned;
Sheraton NY Gains Clean, Quiet Power and Heat
And on another front:
Nothing new here, but has grabbed some attention. Most interesting is a comment about European "feed-in tariffs." You can feed generated energy back into the grid here in the U.S. to offset your bill, but in Spain, for instance, you would get a 5X credit for as long as 25 years. This has created a huge incentive for development of alternative energy generation.
Gotta keep the van running a little longer.
AlterNet: Environment: Is the Hydrogen Age Just Around the Corner?
Simplest tutorial ever, to learn how to create a Mac application.
Cocoa Dev Central: Learn Cocoa
I like Google Earth more, but as long as I'm pointing to code someone else might use...
Google Code FAQ - Creating a User-Contributed Map with PHP and Google Spreadsheets
A high resolution section of Google Earth misses the ruins of Palenque, ending just past the museum and visitor center. Here's a KMZ file of the museum location.
Palenque Museum.kmz - Download
I should know by now I am no coder, but this explains it so well that it is tempting. And we do owe Google Earth Outreach some good KML.
Google Code FAQ - Using PHP and MySQL to create KML
A short profile of Samantha, whom we visited tonight. You'll see friends Faye and Fred in the video also. An amazing family.
YouTube - Familial Dysautonomia
Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries of 2007
Via Mike Ruggeri on the Aztlan list
Chris Shaw's book on the Usumacinta discussed by fellow Adirondacks folks.
Starts around 1:30 into the discussion, goes for about 5 minutes.
NCPR News Archive - Readers & Writers: Winter Reading Call-in
More on the organizations proposing submerged microhydro generation on the Usumacinta.
A proposal for four submerged generators on the Usumacinta has been announced. They would be built at La Linea, El Porvenir, Isla El Cayo, and Yaxchilan.
The proposal has been submitted by La Asociación de Generadores con Energía Renovable (Ager) to the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Guatemala. According to the proposal, the generators would produce 300 megawatts without disrupting the flow of the river. But the access roads and power lines that would be built would promote forest invasion and destruction. Claims of no environmental impact are not telling the whole story.
More information when I get it.
PrensaLibre.com - Proponen generador submarino
Carlos Catalan, killed by a gunman. Cristobal Perez, stabbed by a man sent by oil interests.
Over 100 other cases of NGO and government environmentalists, in a report to be issued Dec. 14.
elPeriódico de Guatemala » País » Asesinatos en el sector ambiental
Re: Amazon, Kindle, 1984, etc.
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts)
iTunes feed, RSS feed, download. Fantastic resource.
School - Sketchup Podcasts, Videos, Education, News, Tutorials, and Classes
Hitting the wall. This is my New Year's resolution.
Too Much Information? Ignore It - New York Times
Walk in a straight line on the outside (or inside) of a sphere and you will return to the place you started.
I worked for this outfit in 1980-81. Is there a dome in our future?
Google Public Policy Blog: Who's going to win the spectrum auction? Consumers.
In the Sierra del Lacandon and Laguna del Tigre, invasions and destruction of forest and archaeological sites.
PrensaLibre.com - Depredan parques
Lyn was reading Baudrillard soon after I met her. I knew that some day I would have to tackle his work.
I was led to this by Howard Rheingold's observation:
...unless we know, and know soon, whether or not the web as it is developing can revitalize the public sphere, all other philosophical conversations may be mooted by the rise of disinfotainment, disinformocracy, and the actual emergence of the simulation that we don’t recognize as a simulation described by Baudrillard.
Baudrillard_Simulacra and Simulations
Yes, I'm Google-obsessed these days. See what comes of it.
Google Takes On Global Warming
Short story from 1909. Recommended.
THE MACHINE STOPS ... E.M. Forster
Previously only available in Google Earth.
Google LatLong: Explore new terrain