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Op-ed columnists apparently have hopes for an intellectual future. Whatever, I just hope we have more open mics and greater transparency ( Read more... )

Indiana JonesIntel Moscone and the CrystalE-waste Skull.

1. Legislative updates: ( Read more... )

With "reuse" loopholes as significant as the US's.

Read the report.

1. Controversy over the proposed relocation of Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market to the other side of the bay, to an old polluted industrial site. They have 5 more years to figure out what the plan is going to be.

2. Mojo Pac, very cool. Making a lot more of USB sticks.

3. UNIDO, Microsoft, and a Ugandan venture into refurbished computers ("Second Life ( Read more... )

1. A question of railway investment in Eastern Europe.

2. Burning Man & the cash economy

3. Rove's retirement - merely the unleashed hellhound?

4. On Africa's development, op-ed by a couple of Peace Corps IT workers who spent time in Kenya. Fair points about internal development and avoiding hand-out dependence, but they also sidestep the ( Read more... )

1. Global warming policy poll.

1.1 Also: of freakish European winters and strawberry Christmases.

2. Oh dear, Zool has gone wiki. OUSFG should have totally trademarked some of our wretched ideas. ;-)

3. Neat! low-tech solutions for Guinea worm

4. Of US e-waste exports, with Malaysia as leading importer (I suspect that they mostly broker it to ( Read more... )

1. 'Tis sunny today, I cycled in, and I'll be participating in today's Critical Mass, I'm not a Karlruher, so I won't be in the nude. ;-)

Actually, I should remember to join them. Find your Critical Mass here. :-)

2. Ooo! Feel the Zero-G Burn! ... I can't help finding so many of these publicity stunts utterly irrelevant to a Zero-G environment... ( Read more... )

1. Beebs reports on another Wikipedia controversy - really, you'd almost think the Beebs was running a hit job for the Encyclopedia Britannica people. ;-)

2. Changes to the UK in the last 10 years - Oh Happiness! Squeezable Marmite (Check last 75%)! Mmmmmm! :-) But what's this about all Britons wanting to move to Australian now?

3. No morning ( Read more... )