“A rubber ball will bounce and someone else can pick it up. That’s your work life. The glass ball is family, friends, your health. Drop it, and if you’re lucky it’ll just crack. If you’re not so lucky, it’ll break into a million pieces. No matter what it’ll never be the same.”
via Dave Winer
At 1:30am CDT, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will begin operation. I think there are at least 3 types of people out there…those that don’t know anything about the LHC; those that know about it and don’t care; and those of us that are intensely interested and curious to see what is learned/discovered from it [...]
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Although the concept of e-paper has been talked about for years, there has not yet been an actual consumer level implementation of it…until now. According to Joel Johnson over at Boing Boing, Esquire Magazine is going to use e-paper on its 75th anniversary edition cover. Essentially, this means that images and text on the cover [...]
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To a packed audience in Washington yesterday, Al Gore issued an inspirational address and challenge:
“Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years”
Gore goes on to discuss the economics, and potentially more importantly, the politics of such a bold (and [...]
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Well, it’s nice to see Canada leading the way in terms of gasification plants in North America. While the tech is that all that new, it hasn’t really caught on outside of Europe until now. PlascoEnergy Group constructed the first demo site in Ottawa back in 2006 and is now in the process of constructing the permanent [...]
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Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world’s most prominent economists and has worked with the current UN General Secretary and world leaders, academics and global companies. Currently a professor at Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs has previously written End of Poverty, which Common Wealth partly covers in terms of content (extreme poverty). Common Wealth goes much further [...]
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After over 2 years since the launch of the One Laptop per child concept, Nicholas Negroponte updates the TED audience (here) on what has happened, what hasn’t happened and where this project if headed.
While I love the idea of this project, there are logistical and pragmatic questions I have about the actual value to the [...]
…and at least one of my colleagues is waiting in line to grab one of the first ones. While I love Mac stuff, I cannot stand the rates and plans the Canadian Telcom’s push onto us. I will have to wait for plans that are more transparent (in terms of billing and small print) before I [...]
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