Day April 9, 2008

Cell phone, YouTube, Flickr, and Twitter

Just got a new cell phone, an AT&T LG. It handles texting, email, and internet much better than my painfully obsolete previous phone, a Motorola V557, which was ancient, almost two years old. Just discovered that Flickr and YouTube can…

Social structure and grievances in Tibet

Thoughtful, longish piece on Tibet, somewhat favorable towards China. Worth reading. A western journalist working in Beijing [said] editors based in the West are overriding the local opinions of Western journalists actually on the ground, and British ex-pats based in…

For many, there was no boom

Median family income dropped slightly from 2000 to 2007. This supposedly during a period of expansion and a real estate boom. “We have had expansions before where the bottom end didn’t do well,” said Lawrence F. Katz, a Harvard economist…

Algae to biofuel

PetroSun asserts that an area the size of Maryland could produce enough algae biofuel to satisfy the entire fuel requirements of the United States. What’s more, algae doesn’t need fresh water or land used for agriculture, and can produce a…