December 2009
33 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Norah Jones (15)
Queens of the Stone Age (13)
The Smashing Pumpkins (13)
Jack Johnson (12)
Wolfmother (11)
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“Enough big pimpin’. Let’s bring back small, artisanal pimpin’.”
– Benchitations (via bullshit) (via hiten)
First time flying solo
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Rogue state climate engineering? Yikes.
And second, “the Soviet-style arrogant engineering scenario”: “A country run by engineers and not overly exposed to public opinion or to dissenting voices undertakes geoengineering as a national mission—much like massive building of poorly designed nuclear reactors, river diversion projects, resettlement of populations, and other national missions that are hard to pursue...
Terrifying - The best we're going to do is...
Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide have already climbed to 385 parts per million, well over the 350 parts per million that many scientists say is the upper limit for a relatively stable climate. And despite government-led efforts to limit carbon emissions in many countries, annual emissions from fossil-fuel combustion are going up, not down: over the last two decades, they have increased 41...
The removal of a bike lane in Brooklyn has become...
Bedford Avenue runs through a Hasidic Jewish community, and many cyclists believe the bike lane was removed amid local outcry over how some cyclists, particularly women, dress. According to the New York Post, some in the community have complained of “scantily clad” women riding through the neighborhood. They cited bike traffic on Bedford Avenue as a prime example of this behavior. Some Hasidic...
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I...
China, backed at times by India, then proceeded to take out all the numbers that mattered. A 2020 peaking year in global emissions, essential to restrain temperatures to 2C, was removed and replaced by woolly language suggesting that emissions should peak “as soon as possible”. The long-term target, of global 50% cuts by 2050, was also excised. No one else, perhaps with the exceptions...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
M. Ward (17)
Iron & Wine (10)
Portishead (9)
Kimya Dawson (8)
Paul Simon (7)
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draft toward an email etiquette guide
Related to #8 is “use Reply All judiciously. Not everyone on the initial distribution needs to be included in the back-and-forth on every item in the message.
hiten:
cdixon:
1) always ask people if it’s ok before introducing them to each other (double opt in)
2) after being introduced to someone, don’t cc the introducer more than once.
3) never, ever use bcc. for one thing it’s...
Brownie recipe for @heathermilligan
Takes 1 hour from the moment you pull out the ingredients until the kitchen is clean. Nothing store-bought comes close.Preheat oven to 350. 2 sticks of butter 4 squares baking chocolate 2 cups sugar 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon vanilla (chocolate chips optional)> Melt butter in a pan; add chocolate and stir until melted. Don’t let it burn >Pour butter and chocolate into mixer. Add sugar,...
He suggests imposing financial penalties on carbon...
To end this political stalemate, Dr. McKitrick proposes calling each side’s bluff. He suggests imposing financial penalties on carbon emissions that would be set according to the temperature in the earth’s atmosphere. The penalties could start off small enough to be politically palatable to skeptical voters. If the skeptics are right and the earth isn’t warming, then the penalties for burning...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Shirim (17)
The Gaslight Anthem (14)
Kimya Dawson (8)
M. Ward (8)
Iron & Wine (7)
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What do do when your 3 kids can't agree on a...
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Then again... "Cuts in greenhouse gases offered at...
The cuts in greenhouse gases offered at the 192-nation climate conference are “clearly not enough” to assure the world it will head off dangerous global warming, a key UN-affiliated scientist said Saturday. AP/Nanet Poulsen 13/12/2009 11:50 Such projections, moreover, don’t even account for the “potentially hugely important” threat of methane from the...
Fingers crossed. "In less than a week, I believe...
With only a short “working week” to go before more than 110 heads of state and government gather Friday at the climate summit in Copenhagen, the hour of reckoning approaches with giant strides. According to AFP, a select group of environment ministers from 48 countries meet already on Sunday to pore over a draft deal. Late Saturday, the COP15 President Connie Hedegaard described the...
Social media specialist waiting for potential...
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On Alec Baldwin as announcer for New York...
“What classical music does is a little removed from the mainstream,” the orchestra’s music director, Alan Gilbert, said, with no little understatement. “Frankly, anybody who expresses real interest and devotion to what we do is welcome.” All the better, he added, “if it happens to be a famous person who is really hot.” via nytimes.com Posted via web from park3’s...
“I like bike lanes, and I’m not particularly pleased to see them removed, but...”
– Bike Snob NYC on brakeless fixes and bike lanes (via jamesnord) (via mikehudack) (via tedr)
Never Quite Understood the Idea of Clean Coal -...
Now the government of Alberta says it will give C$285 million ($271 million) to a coal gasification project by Calgary-based Swan Hills Synfuels that involves the deepest-ever operation to generate power from coal—without digging it up. Previous demonstrations of the technology have turned coal seams as deep as 1,000 meters below the surface into clean-burning gas. In contrast, Swan...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Nirvana (41)
DJ Shadow (13)
The Urges (12)
Johnny Cash (5)
Sonic Youth (4)
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"We’re a profession that, over the last hundred...
“We’ve seen a profoundly more open attitude within corporate law departments to alternative fee arrangements,” said Peter Kalis, chairman and global managing partner at K&L Gates, who estimated that 40 percent of his firm’s revenue now comes from such arrangements. “The client community’s openness to alternative fees, which is increasing daily, is going to cause more law firms to go in that...
The term "global warming" is a misnomer" for...
The term “global warming” is a misnomer; we should instead talk about global climate change, which isn’t uniform. The global average temperature is indeed rising, but many areas are becoming drier, and frequencies of droughts, floods and other extreme weather events are increasing. Some areas will be winners, while others will be losers. Most of us will be losers, because the temperate zones...
“Last night I was speaking with a man whose son just graduated from Stanford Law...”
– Gotham Gal (via fred-wilson)
Compare/contrast with Jason Calacanis’ to charge lawyers (and other service providers) $1500 to attend his Open Angel Forum. “Don’t worry” he says, “they can easily afford it!”
“The most reprinted [New Yorker cartoon] is Peter Steiner’s 1993 drawing of two...”
– The New Yorker - Wikipedia (via nickdouglas) (via tedr)
Business.com valuation - $7.5M (2000), $2M (2005),...
Earthlink founder Sky Dayton and Jake Winebaum, who founded eCompanies, paid $7.5 million for Business.com in 2000. The founders later raised more than $80 million from institutional investors, and in 2004 with $10 million investment from Benchmark Capital. ECompanies paid for Business.com with cash and stock. The stock lost most of its value during the dot-com bust. As Jake Winebaum said...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
Them Crooked Vultures (31)
Nirvana (15)
Norah Jones (10)
M. Ward (7)
Jack Johnson (6)
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Rapid ice loss in parts of the Antarctic has big...
Loss of ice from the West Antarctic ice sheet is likely to contribute some tens of centimeters to global sea level rise over the next century, according to a new report by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). “We can see the West Antarctic glaciers are shrinking at a rate fast enough to contribute to a sea level rise of 1.4 meters by 2100, but it will be no more than...