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One of my new year’s resolutions, as urged on me (not really) by Al Gore and the repoweramerica.org mailing list I signed up for sometime in December, was to move my various internet assets to a carbon-neutral hosting provider. So I did a lot of research into green web hosts, ( Read more... )

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My near-future-apocalyptic magic realist short story “Starlings” is now live in Abyss & Apex #31. (Which issue also happens to feature a very cool poem by LCRW author Daniel A. Rabuzzi-lucky me!)

“Starlings” is a story about climate change, tech withdrawal, and memory-themes ( Read more... )

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This is coming a bit late-most everybody has their power back by now. But I have a free moment to breathe, and I really have been hurting for something to scroll down the freakish zoot-suit-boogieing android post immediately below.

I live in the Connecticut valley, so the ice ( Read more... )

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Greenwashing is the despicable practice of spending a bunch of ad money to make it look like you did something to reduce your corporation’s environmental impact without actually doing anything to reduce your corporation’s environmental impact.

This is Apple’s new ad for the ( Read more... )

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If you’re here, you’ve no doubt noticed the new and improved Mossy Skull layout 2.0. It’s bigger, easier to read, has more pictures and more/better stuff in the sidebar. And the theme css is a lot cleaner and easier to comprehend, and the php jives better with Wordpress 2.6 ( ( Read more... )

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Been having some odd happenstance around here…entries showing up in triplicate and suchlike. So I am upgrading to WordPress 2.3.3. Things may go haywire for a short while. You will likely not notice at all.

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Wind Up Eco Media Player
(This link brought to my attention courtesy of el Nubo.)

They claim it runs for 40 minutes on one minute of cranking. Seems eminently usable. Sturdy. With a color video screen, which is more than I need. Unfortunately, it appears to be available only ( Read more... )

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ALEUTIA

Not as slick as the crank laptop, and it costs a hell of a lot more, but it allows the user to escape the clutches of Microsoft, Intel and (yes) Apple, not to mention the power company-collectively, if you will, the Man.

My guess is the solar panel probably works a lot ( Read more... )