Category: business
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Is Living Simply Anti-Modern?
My wife was tentatively offered a Kindle for Christmas, with the added note that, there are plenty of public-domain works you can download for it. “Why would I want a Kindle when all the books I do read are in the library?” was her response. Walking to the library is a healthy activity. It keeps…
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Social Bicycles (SoBi)
This is a remarkably sophisticated idea for bike hire without dedicated docking stations. With phone-app integration. You find a bike using your phone app, rent an access code over your phone, unlock, and lock up to whatever’s handy at your stop. SoBi | Design.
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US: Last in Public Transportation (Huffington)
Seventy years of letting big auto and big oil shape public policy about public transportation has left our very language about paying for civic transportation crippled. We have the best government money can buy. Let’s vote with our dollar differently if we can. John Robbins: What Ever Happened to Public Transportation?.
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Corporations Do Not have Personal Privacy Rights (PublicCitizen)
Corporations are not a person. They need to be treated as organizations accountable to their employees and their regions. Corporations Do Not have Personal Privacy Rights.
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More Reasons to Trust Dow, Monsanto
Do they think that somehow they are not polluting themselves? http://www.opednews.com/articles/Would-You-Care-for-a-Side-by-Meg-White-100506-484.html
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2010-05-17 Web apps should be fast
Have I worked on any applications that have all 10 of these concepts? It’s an interesting read. It mostly speaks towards building software that has charisma. I don’t think I’ve ever really worked on a product that has charisma. I’ve certainly helped speed sites up, and helped make them more useful. Many products I’ve worked…
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All Ur Friendz R Belong To Us
This is a good graphic displaying how Facebook’s “public” policy is now.
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Consider: Organic, the World Over?
This is a great little article about how organic farming should be able to scale globally. I’ve heard many interviews on various science podcasts where guests (and their sponsoring corporations) are convinced that existing agriculture techniques are incapable of feeding the whole world…thus the “obvious need” for GMO crops. Let’s presume that’s false for a…
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Imagine Bank Subsidy for Community Solar
I stumbled up this news release about a bank in Uttar Pradesh, India, that is providing loans to help install solar panels. I’m going to alter a section and make it more American just for the sake of illustration–to help you image the number of people this press release is talking about: For providing the solar…
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