What I do

Ok, after three moves in 28 months things are finally settling down a bit so I can now focus more on some of what I do. Which is:

Build and re-design websites and blogs. Create ecommerce sites with shopping carts. Optimize websites and blogs for search engines. Sites that are search engine friendly have [...]

Electric Jetski

The ECO Jetski has a battery life of three hours and will do 50 mph. Quietly and emissions-free.

Yikes! Glad these bugs aren’t bigger!

Praying mantis caught on camera eating a hummingbird

It caught the hummingbird in mid flight too…

Hawaiian garbage-to-energy plant recycles derelict fishing nets for electricity

What’s more, they’re exploring the possibility of collecting plastics from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and recycling it into biodiesel.

Corncobs as ethanol feedstock and alt coal plant fuel

Corn cobs ready to be used as fuel in coal plant

Not only are harvested corncobs an excellent ethanol feedstock, removing cobs from the fields rather than plowing them under results in no substantial difference in soil nutrient content.

“This information reinforces previous research showing that corncobs are a sustainable, environmentally friendly feedstock for [...]

How the stock market is manipulated by insiders

The manipulations are more obvious now, futures are played with in conjunction with stock trades to drive in prices in a desired direction, market fundamentals, logic, and an semblance of ethics be damned,

One can achieve a comfortable margin of safety by working with other hedge funds to go long or short the identical stocks [...]

Cleveland tourism video. “At least we’re not Detroit”

The Right is winning the battle of ideas in the UK

So says John Wight at Socialist Unity, in a thoughtful, important piece that Lefties everywhere need to read. (I know John from when we volunteered with the ANSWER Coalition in L.A. from about 2003-2006, helping to organize some genuinely exciting and massive antiwar protests.)

While he’s looking at things from a UK perspective, the same [...]

Bob can stop any time he wants. As long as it’s not today

Steve Lopez of the LA Times chronicles a high school class going into withdrawal after attempting to go a week without electronics like computers, cell phones, and iPods.

(Ok, after this blog post appears, TwitterFeed will autopost it on Twitter, and then FriendFeed will repost it from Twitter, where any comments made to it [...]

The Archdruid says the Internet is doomed

The Archdruid says woe unto you for your profligate ways, your Internet will crumble to dust

Apparently the sustainability of the Internet is doomed. Why? Because the Archdruid Report says so. In fact, head Archdruid John Michael Greer, appears to take considerable glee in announcing that, due to our sinful ways, we’ll soon be [...]