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| Topic: Home and Garden |
1:17 am EDT, Sep 1, 2003 |
TVA's Solar Power home page. TVA: Solar Power |
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A fantastic resource for renewable energy |
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12:13 am EDT, Sep 1, 2003 |
] The Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy
] (DSIRE) is a comprehensive source of information on
] state, local, utility, and selected federal incentives
] that promote renewable energy. A fantastic resource for renewable energy |
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| Topic: Society |
10:07 am EDT, Aug 29, 2003 |
] The denizens of Open Cultures want their connected
] collectivism to liberate the world from regulations,
] markets, and intellectual property. But what if victory
] only clears the way for corruption of their beloved
] culture? yes, I admit... things can go too far. But it's like anything else in life. It requires education and responsibility. Freedom's Dark Side |
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| Topic: Technology |
10:00 am EDT, Aug 29, 2003 |
] Most documents are the product of continual
] evolution. An essay may undergo dozens of revisions;
] source code for a computer program may undergo
] thousands. And as online collaboration becomes
] increasingly common, we see more and more
] ever-evolving group-authored texts. This site is a
] preliminary report on a simple visual technique, history
] flow, that provides a clear view of complex
] records of contributions and collaboration. IBM | History Flow |
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| Topic: Technology |
10:00 am EDT, Aug 29, 2003 |
Anthropologist Christopher Kelty on programmers, networks and information technology Kelty has studied the political economy of information; Free Software; cultural aspects of intellectual property law; reputation, trust and exchange in communities of software programmers; and the history of medicine in America. Kelty teaches classes in science and technology studies, the mechanization of thought processes, the history of memory systems, ... Not all people involved with "hacking" are self-identified hackers. ... Entrepreneurs, visionaries, activists and lawyers are engaged in some of the same social worlds but may not call themselves hackers. In the end, the goal is to investigate the nature of social relations and shared attitudes toward the worlds we live in ... to find what ties people together in a given social world. ... information is not necessarily something that circulates on the Internet. It is something that can be understood socially as existing in a particular time and place through repeated interactions between people. I also talk about the differences between communication networks and social networks and try to give the students a way of thinking about how one might have both a communication network and a social network at the same time. ... areas like this are quite hard for students to get their head around ... I like to focus on banal, boring issues like standards, protocols, and IPR because I delight in showing how supposedly arcane technical problems actually turn out to be political. ... IP rights hand a kind of police power over to private bodies. ... The economic justification for the existence of IP is different from the actual uses to which people put it. Scientists and engineers like to think that the technical and scientific issues can be separated out from the social, sort of fuzzy issues. My claim is that they're heavily tied together. A Whole New Worldview |
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What's in your Bottled Water? |
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| Topic: Society |
9:35 am EDT, Aug 29, 2003 |
] The message is clear: Bottled water is "good" water, as
] opposed to that nasty, unsafe stuff that comes out of the
] tap. But in most cases tap water adheres to stricter
] purity standards than bottled water, whose source -- far
] from a mountain spring -- can be the parking lot of an
] industrial facility in New Jersey. Forty percent of it
] began life as, well, tap water. What's in your Bottled Water? |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
9:24 am EDT, Aug 29, 2003 |
From Wired News: Raymond Dublin took his foot fetish a step too far when the two-time convicted sex offender allegedly snuck up behind a woman at a Massachusetts Save-A-Lot supermarket and licked her feet and toes. Apparently, this was the third such encounter between Dublin and the woman, whom the prosecutor described as "extremely annoyed." Dublin, 36, was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He had recently completed a one-year sentence on a similar foot-licking charge at a Rhode Island supermarket. When his attorney requested counseling in lieu of jail time, the judge replied, "I don't know what type of counseling someone could undergo for this kind of behavior." While I don't have a foot fetish, I can certainly understand Dublin's predicament. |
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MSN Autos - 2003 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
11:46 am EDT, Aug 27, 2003 |
] It takes a lot to attract attention with a new car in
] Monterey, where a Ferrari on the street rarely warrants a
] second glance. But Bugatti was able to do just that with
] its new super car. 0-180 in 14 seconds. Start saving now. MSN Autos - 2003 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance |
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