August 2007
20 posts
“We tend to think that the way to address disease and death is to have more...”
– Clive Thompson Explains Why We Can Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth
“You could argue that we’re simply callous, or hypocrites. But Slovic...”
– Clive Thompson Explains Why We Can Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth
“Eddy is one of many doctors to recently rediscover honey as medicine. Abandoned...”
– Honey Remedy Could Save Limbs
“Over time, proprietary file formats will go from being a competitive advantage...”
– Ready for a new K: an inside look at KDE 4.0
How to solve Afghanistan's drug problem. - By Anne... →
Legalize it.
Overal lawaai, en die kerkklokken mogen niet? →
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for... →
The Western Climate Initiative — formed by the US states of Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Manitoba — has established an overall target for joint greenhouse gas emissions of 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
OnEarth Magazine - Appalachian Apocalypse →
Mountaintop removal — the name says it all — is the most ruthless method yet found to extract coal as quickly and as cheaply as possible. That it happens at all is an outrage. That it happens in one of North America’s most biologically diverse ecosystems is heartbreaking.
“The more I think about this, the more sense it makes: anti-big-government...”
– Unfogged
Why cell phones are still grounded →
Mobilejones: You might be paying $1,000 per MB for... →
(via Kottke)
Space Dust: It's Alive and It's ... Us? →
In a computer model of inorganic particles in plasma, researchers from the Russian Academy of Science, the University of Sydney and the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics watched plasma-state inorganic dust organize itself, twisting into strands that look and act a bit like DNA
blueprintcss - Google Code →
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
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