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This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box.
— Edward R. Murrow
Incoming Memes
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- I think it's time to get out into that dusty, dusty Bat Country... 1 week ago
- Just about packed... gonna nap until grocery and hardware stores open, or thereabouts. 1 week ago
- Right. So I'm supposed to be all packed up and ready to go in 24 hours. Uh huh. We'll just have to see about that! 1 week ago
- Thank goodness for coffee, waffles, dynamos and LEDs. Headed out to inspect 18km worth of bike lanes for @bouldergobldr on @burningman time. 2 weeks ago
- Indulging in a little camouflage and para-aramid fiber lust, fashion bedamned! 2 weeks ago
- How could I be anything but happy to have inspired someone else to go on a bicycle date? 2 weeks ago
- Helping Kerry put up onions and tomatoes and other garden fruits for the long harsh winter. 2 weeks ago
- Way up north it's the perfect temperature for moonbathing and stargazing with the crickets, cicadas, and toads. 2 weeks ago
- Anybody up for another playa "training ride" tonight? Would it be absurd to try and ride to New Belgium and back by moonlight? 2 weeks ago
- Biked on Boulder's paths all night with a mischievous girl in the moonlight and a waffle iron in my panniers. 2 weeks ago
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Linkstream
- Russia in color, a century ago 2010/08/20
Incredible full color photos from all over the hinterlands of the Russian empire, around the year my grandmother was born. Just before it all disintegrated into chaos. - Profile: Viktor Bout 2010/08/20
Viktor Bout, one of the arms dealers that served as a model for the protagonist in Lord of War, is set to be extradited from Thailand to the US. Russia is not pleased. - Poligraft | The Sunlight Foundation 2010/08/18
Poligraft is an awesome tool from Sunlight for looking at the political influence and connections of people and organizations mentioned in news stories and press releases. A kind of digital political x-ray machine. - Federal R&D Agency Funding Profiles | Proposal Exponent 2010/08/13
Good overview of where federal research dollars are spent. No surprise that it's dominated by DoD (more than half). And about half of the non-DoD funding goes to the NIH. The rest of us bicker over less than a quarter of it. Climate change? Renewable energy and efficiency measures? All in that quarter. Along with all geologic hazard research, the search for Earth crossing asteroids, habitable planets, life, and intelligence elsewhere in the Universe. All space exploration. All efforts to understand how ocean circulation works. All basic research into producing salt and drought tolerant crops, as well as soil and water conservation techniques. All archival sequencing of the world's extant species. All in that quarter. Eventually DoD will realize these things are security threats. Maybe they already have. - Cartoneros del Primer Mundo - lanacion.com 2010/08/11
Box people of the first world? La Nacion, an Argentinian newspaper, wanted to use one of my dumpster diving pictures. Strange days. - Zoom into your Roof: Checking the Thermal Performance of Homes 2010/08/11
Some cities in Belgium pooled resources to create a thermographic map of the buildings within their boundaries, for use as a resource to homeowners and building managers interested in doing attic insulation and infiltration retrofits. Awesome - With My Own Two Wheels 2010/08/08
A documentary in progress, following various pedal powered projects around the world. With all the energy and technology we have access to in the US, it's easy to forget that for billions of people, access to this wonderfully simple 19th century contraption is still a bit step in the right direction. And actually... in many cases it would be for us too. - Deconstructing the groovy Bicilicuadora 2010/08/08
Blender hooked up to a bike with a makeshift sidewall dynamo. Direct mechanical drive, and beautiful photos by Cass. - Russian wildfires after hottest July on record 2010/08/03
Climate change? - Clean Energy Action 2010/08/03
Boulder may be deciding where its energy will come from for the next 20 years tomorrow... here's hoping we have the guts to do the right thing in a Long Now context. Rally at the Municipal Building 1777 Broadway, 5pm Tuesday 8/3!
