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The death of my sister-in-law yesterday from cancer got me thinking about Carpe Diem, by the Fugs. Tuli Kupferberg, co-founder of the group, wrote Carpe Diem in 1966. It’s about mortality. Seize the day because we never know how much time we have left. 44 years later they sang it at his memorial service [...] Xmarks, a browser sync service with two million users is shutting down in Jan. 2011. They recommend a number of alternatives, including Firefox Sync, which I’m using now. It too will sync bookmarks between multiple browsers as well as passwords, and also saves history and tabs. Yes, tabs. The Firefox Home app on the iPhone [...] Hi. We’re the new Goldman Sachs. You can trust us now. Really. The Vampire Squid is attempting to pretty up its tattered image. The Big Picture wants to help. Here’s a few of their top 10 suggestions for Goldman’s new ad campaign. 9. Government Bailout: $29 billion SEC Settlement: $550 million Doing God’s work? [...] Americablog thinks so, as it can find no other reason why Obama is hectoring and insulting the base he claims to want to mobilize. Could be, but given that Obama was Wall Street’s choice, and has amply done their bidding by sending them hundreds of billions and insured that any legislation regulating them was tepid, [...] The corruption and rot was deep and pervasive indeed at the State of New York public pension fund. Alan Hevesi, the former comptroller, is expected to pled guilty to charges resulting from selling access to pension fund investing in return for millions of dollars. The investigation continues into some big names like Steve Rattner, who [...] Airborne wind generator. Wikipedia The country has three key ingredients: good technology, a cooperative government and really bad weather. High altitude wind uses tethered kites or planes at very high altitudes to generate electricity. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But so did solar and wind power in their infancy too. A Dutch company, DSM, [...] CalWatchdog, an investigative journalism site that tilts rightward, weighs in on the governor’s race. [Meg Whitman] says she’s willing to stake a fortune on a candidacy in order to save the state. I just can’t figure what ideas she has that will dramatically reform the state. It’s that authenticity thing again. I have no doubt [...] Liberal columnist Colin McEnroe of the Hartford Courant on Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumental’s campaign for Senate as a Democrat. Blumenthal should be coasting to victory against his Republican opponent, WWE magnate Linda McMahon, but he’s not. He was ahead by upwards of 32 points, now he’s ahead by just a few and McMahon is [...] An Ocean Power Technology power-generating buoy is now generating electricity off Hawaii. Most excellent! In honor and in sorrow for our sister-in-law Karen Slater who died this morning much too young after a five year battle with cancer, which she fought against like a tiger and with a smile on her face. She lived three years longer than most thought possible and leaves behind her husband and a [...] |
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