Should have seen this coming. The meeting between Mexican and Guatemalan officials over protection of the Maya sites has revived the idea of a continuous Ruta Maya, connecting the Peten with Campeche in Mexico, opening the last barriers to development and destruction of the Maya Biosphere.
Propone gobierno de Campeche integrar regiones de Calakmul y El Petén | SDP
Protection of sites in northern Guatemala and southern Mexico. The project includes the Sierra del Lacandon Park on the Usumacinta River.
México apoyará a Guatemala en la conservación de recursos - Titulares
Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?
Another season of flooding in Tabasco, Mexico.
Mexican flood leaves 34,000 homeless | balita-dot-ph
Existe temor entre tenosiquenses
I'll need something like this in 2 years. Creating and deploying Mac images across the network - can't I just hire someone?
Freeware.
The entire car produces less drag than the sideview mirrors on a pickup truck. And it may actually be available next year for $30,000.
Top 10 Innovations of 2008 - Breakthrough Awards - Best Future Inventions - Popular Mechanics
A month ago this would have meant nothing to me. But since I'm working through Tom Igoe's "Making Things Talk" book I see it now - tiny controllers around us, talking behind our backs. When they aren't busy telling me what I need to know.
Slashdot | World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS
The Contiki Operating System - uIPv6: Contiki is IPv6 Ready
Found this while looking for something else, as usual.
Create Digital Motion - If M.C. Escher Did Augmented Reality: Julian Oliver's Levelhead
Thought-provoking essay by Harold Bloom about the financial collapse of 1837 and its effect on Ralph Waldo Emerson, who soon afterward wrote "Self-Reliance".
Op-Ed Contributor - Out of Panic, Self-Reliance - NYTimes.com
Here's one guy's collection of green roof posts. Good photos, diagrams, drawings.
One word - sedum.
Landscape + Urbanism: green roofs
The $3 million "overhead projector" was never funded. Didn't stop McCain from trying to use it as a weapon - never mind our need to promote science education in this country - or the Adler Planetarium from calling out their own truth-squad.
McCain's planetarium problem - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com
First of many, now that the NDA is lifted.
InformIT: iPhone Developer's Cookbook, The: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK - $25.59
The archaeological site of Chinkultic had been abandoned by authorities and taken over by peasants who charged admission. A brutal police action to evict them left 6 dead and created a a violent response from the local ejido.
Denuncian seis muertes por desalojo en ejido de Chiapas - La Jornada
Giran orden de presentacion a 200 policias tras desalojo en Chiapas - La Jornada
Six Deaths by Eviction in Chiapas Ejido - Translation by Kristin Bricker
Looks like the choice is the Sony SRX-R220 4K SXRD projector, among others.
Hollywood investing $1 billion in digital theater projectors | Gaming and Culture - CNET News
New task force to fight narcotrafficking and destruction of protected areas.
Prensa Libre - Batallón verde podría empezar a operar en noviembre
Eco-contrarians Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger are back with proposals for the new green economy.
Daily Kos: Making Clean Energy Cheap
The green bubble bursts - Los Angeles Times
Still finding all the great work done by Rob Faludi, Dan Shiffman, Tom Igoe and their students at ITP. And thanks to our pal Marianne Petit who first mentioned Arduino to me and started all of this.
code, circuits, & construction :: XBee
Search Results for "Xbee" at Rob Faludi
XBee Programming Arduino Wirelessly
Indoor Micro-Energy Harvesting: complete & working « Raphael Zollinger
This was announced earlier, but here's a notice from Brown University with good quotes from Houston. No one has done more for the study of Maya history on the Usumacinta.
Anthropologist Stephen Houston named 2008 MacArthur Fellow | Today at Brown