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Graph of solar radiation in the US (Southwest is best)
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 12, 2008
Mikey Sklar and Wendy Tremaine moved to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico a couple of years ago and have been "recklessly experimenting" with various systems for living off the grid. They've been powering their house with photovoltaic cells, and this graph Mikey found makes it clear that they've moved to the right place.Today my PV solar panels must have been working extra hard. They...
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Microsoft's Brand Confusion Runs Deep
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 07, 2008
The LiveSide blog today took a look at all the different bits of Microsoft's Live.com search universe and found that while the new look may live up to the stated design principle of "Simple and powerful. Human. Fast." it doesn't provide a common, unified experience. LiveSide found four different search boxes, two different Live.com "orb" logos (in four different sizes), and six different...
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All the water and air on earth gathered into spheres and compared to the Earth
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on March 11, 2008
Dan Phiffer found this image on a message board, and by his calculations, he says it's accurate.Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth.Link(Via...
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Great day in the morning
via Paul Worthington by paul on May 06, 2008
This is one of my all-time favorite TV commercials. The first time I saw it, it had me rolling.The Volkswagon Jetta “coelacanth” commercial:
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In Defense of Real Food
via Gourmeted by joy on May 05, 2008
I’m back in the desert and to be honest, I haven’t cooked since I flew in. It’s been so hot I do not even want to move. But anyway, at least I had the weekend to unpack (one of my least favorite activities), watch Dan perform at an improv show (give it up for my man!), attend a Cinco de Mayo party where our friends served a fantabulous Italian feast fit for a hundred guests and we were...
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation
via Tom McMahon by Tom McMahon on May 05, 2008
From Roger Friedman:But how to explain the newly available actual finances of this corrupt, dying establishment created by Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner? According to the 2006-2007 federal tax filing for the Foundation just published at guidestar.org, expenses are higher than ever while charity remains almost nil. Consider that in 2006-2007, the Foundation — which claims assets of over $14...
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Samsung's new pebble; iPod slowdown
via core77.com's design blog by (author unknown) on April 30, 2008
Coming out in June is Samsung's new "pebble"-style MP3 player, the YP-S2. Seemingly designed so it can be easily smuggled into prison, the $40 device will store 1GB, and the attractive design means the iPod Shuffle may finally have some viable competition.Will we see more attempts to loosen Apple's death-grip on the MP3 market? Well, according to Google Trends, the iPod is on the...
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Game/Space: An Interview with Daniel Dociu
via BLDGBLOG by Geoff Manaugh on April 24, 2008
[Image: Daniel Dociu. View larger! This and all images below are Guild Wars content and materials, and are trademarks and/or copyrights of ArenaNet, Inc. and/or NCSoft Corporation, and are used with permission; all rights reserved].Seattle-based concept artist Daniel Dociu is Chief Art Director for ArenaNet, the North American wing of NCSoft, an online game developer with headquarters in Seoul....
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The Music Tax: Details Of The Plan They Don’t Want You To Know
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on March 28, 2008
We learned yesterday that Warner Music, the third largest music label, is gunning for a $5/month music tax on U.S. residents.Some of the details were in the article: they’ve hired industry veteran Jim Griffin to create a new entity around the project, presumably to get other labels involved. Griffin threw out the idea of a $5/month tax (which would be added to people’s ISP bill), generating...
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EMI Suffers A Setback In Case Against MP3Tunes
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on March 28, 2008
The record labels love to sue Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3.com (sold to Vivendi in 2001 for $372 million) who now incubates a number of Web startups. One of them is MP3Tunes, which is billed as a music storage locker. But the record labels still don’t like it. EMI is suing MP3Tunes for copyright infringement and demanded that the service turn over the more than 100 million music...
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