The 10 most unnecessarily caffeinated consumer products

Among them are beer and pantyhose. Yes, you read that right.

Physicists find way to hide buildings from earthquakes

Basically, it involves fitting a series of concentric plastic rings into the earth around a building. The surface wave would then hit these and be directed around and away from the shielded structure by the curved barriers.

Which then presumably might then hit other buildings, causing them to crumble, which in turn could create a [...]

CIT gets “Don Corleone financing”

"I tell you, the bankers are moving in on our territory. Maybe we should just merge with them."

CIT, a 101 year old commercial lender is on the ropes, facing bankruptcy. So a consortium of vultures has offered to bail them out. But the terms are so onerous that others in the financial world [...]

Honeywell home wind turbine

This compact wind turbine weighs just 90 lbs., generates power with just 2 mph of wind, and generates up to 2,000 kWh of energy a year. With the inverter and connecters, it’s a pricey $4,500. Hopefully that price will drop. This is definitely a major step towards wind power for homes and businesses.

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Capitalist blogs rage against exploitation. Far left snoozes

Is SLP the NYSE’s answer to Direct Edge’s “Advance Look” Enhanced Liquidity Provider Program or You Trade You Lose, You Trade Goldman Wins

So says Zero Hedge in yet another stunning blog post, this time on how major stock exchanges have, in effect, preferential tiered private clubs that allow the wealthy and connected to [...]

Public murals by John Pugh

Mana Nalu Mural Project, Hawaii

Home page for the public murals.

Nissan Pivo 2 ZEV electric car has wireless charging

This zero emission electric vehicle from Nissan uses inductive charging and doesn’t need wires or a plug.

The ZEV can now charge in a special parking spot without needing any wires. Inductive charging is still less efficient than wired charging, but for easy, on-the-go recharging, inductive charging offers a lot of potential.

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Does Walmart’s sustainability initiative signal the end of greenwashing?

CleanTechnica thinks it could, given the broad-based coalition Walmart has assembled plus their enormous clout in the marketplace means they can mandate that changes be made.

But what drives Walmart’s decisions around sustainability are these three goals:

1. To be supplied by 100% by renewable energy 2. To create zero waste 3. To sell [...]

Charges to be dropped against Harvard professor

Does anyone think the police would have investigated if two white men were trying to get in a stuck door of a house in an upscale neighborhood. Where one of them lived. Which the cop knew.

If Henry Gates wasn’t a high profile, well-known African-American scholar and Harvard professor, I doubt that charges would have [...]

WordPress plugins Polizeros uses

I’ve been updating the WordPress plugins that Polizeros uses. One reason is to prepare for upgrading to WordPress 2.8.2, as there was a flurry of anguished posts on WordPress forums about how the upgrade bonked their blog.

Most of the time it was because of incompatible plugins or because they didn’t deactivate the plugins [...]