Sunday, June 14, 2009

The Dept of Energy joins the peak oil parade

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They're weaving and dodging, but basically they're on board ... Goodbye to cheap oil | Salon Every summer, the Energy Information Ad...

Google's problem: too many Starters, too few Finishers

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Google's Blogger rich text editor is richly broken in Firefox and Safari . This isn't a new problem, it's been broken in lesser ...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Bubble III

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Governments have injected trillions of dollars into financial systems. We're not set up to quickly deploy that much money, and loans are...
Friday, June 12, 2009

The mass murder of Navy sonar

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I don't think the US Navy would get away with deploying technology that visibly tortured and killed large numbers of land mammals ... Do...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

It’s not Obama’s deficit

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No great surprise, but even I’m surprised how relatively little Obama’s budgets have contributed to the Federal deficit … How the U.S. ...

The Pre advantage: $1,200 cheaper

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The Pre has three significant advantages over iPhone 3.0 [1]. PIM. Palm is far more committed to productivity (PIM) apps (calendar, contacts...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Google's HTML 5 - the netbook chromestellation platform

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It’s been a few months since I’ve last written about the netbook chromestellation platform (Google Chrome + Netscape Constellation 1996). T...
Monday, June 08, 2009

iPhone 3GS - interesting disability features

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The iPhone 3GS should be able to support magnifying text and acting as a reader for printed materials . I expect that 'magnifying glass...

Apple WWDC: Yay iPhone, Boo Snow Leopard

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Quick WWDC comments ... The iPhone 3GS is as expected, only surprise is accessibility and voice commands. That's a win over all. I...
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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Peak hydrocarbon output in 2020?

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I'm comfortable with my Peak Oil call of Aug 2008 . Of course I didn't mean peak production, but rather that going forward the dema...

Foreign Policy review on child soldiers

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FP takes us to the ugliness behind the hype (via Freakonomics) ... Foreign Policy: Think Again: Child Soldiers ... Asymmetrical conflicts, h...
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Gingrich is a loon

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Either Gingrich believes he can con the religious right into thinking he's one of them, or he really believes this ... Shared sacrifices...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

The implications of cyber war in an interconnected world

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This is the first cyber war discussion I've read that's had anything interesting to say ... I, Cringely - Collateral Damage ... ...

Requiem for a gerserker - Gordon's Laws of Geekery

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So we'll go no more a-hackin So late into the night Though the heart be still as geeking, And the moon be still as bright... Apologies t...
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Friday, June 05, 2009

AvantGo RIP - memories of the roaring 90s

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The demise of AvantGo  has not received much attention. I am one of the few who remember the deceased Palm application, so I'll deliver ...