Day January 22, 2008

Online images and photos

A few months back I started posting more images here as they make the blog look better and more readable. Here’s where I get most of the images for Polizeros. Commons.wikipedia.org has over 2 million “freely usable” media files. A…

No carnage

After big opening declines, the US markets have recovered much of the losses. This after Asia and Europe markets got clobbered Monday. We are in a bear market now, but no screaming death ride down for now.

Ethnic violence

Donald Rothchild, a professor at UC Davis and expert on ethnic violence was said to have a favorite saying: There are no spontaneous rallies. Behind all mass violence lies the machinations of a society’s elite. With the situation in Kenya…

Geothermal power; The Geysers

While all the geothermal power plants in the US produce less than 1% of total power, the southwest has the potential to produce over 20%. The Geysers in northern California is the largest geothermal plant in the world, producing more…