Solar power cosiness?

BrightSource Energy, the California solar power plant builder, largely backed by President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, Robert Kennedy Jr., was granted a 1.4 billion dollar bailout through a loan guarantee issued by a former employee-turned Department of Energy official

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Extreme Black Friday shopping comes to reality TV

Cable TV is all abuzz with exciting news about potential reality shows based around Black Friday shopping and roller derby. Shoppers are given pepper spray and shopping carts, which they can weaponize. The bargains will be way in the back of the store. Aisles will be strategically blocked or made slippery by pouring vegetable oil [...]

su.pr is super

su.pr is part of Stumbleupon and allows posting in advance to Twitter, Facebook, and to Stumble itself.

It has a useful feature that after a few days will tell you the best time to post,which is usually late afternoon or so. I’m getting increased hits using it.

Another bonus: The post doesn’t have to [...]

Brussels forcing Greek money in Switzerland back to Greece

Bruce Krasting

A move is being made in Brussels to “force” the Swiss government/ banks to transfer all of the assets of Greek citizens back to the Greek banks. For a Greek this means that your money is hostage. It has been functionally expropriated. It will be transferred into a banking system that is [...]

Soapstone wood stove gives off heat for 15 hours

Given the slow rate at which it cools down because of the thermal mass of the soapstone, this will keep you warm all night on a couple of pieces of wood. It is also 83% efficient.

Black Friday Derangement Syndrome

Don’t you think this Black Friday bit has gone a bit too far?

PS The Great Black Friday Two-Dollar Waffle Iron Riot

Further proof that the financial sector is a den of thieves

London banks seen rigging Libor rates, losing credibility with markets

There are now multiple lawsuits against these banks alleging they are rigging the rates. The Libor is a benchmark rate that determines many other rates.

Occupy and Tea Party should use old constitutional remedy

One idea that I think is perfectly tailored for the moment, is the Article V Convention method of altering or abolishing government that no longer works for the people. Certainly, the unholy tryst twist Washington and Wall Street is one of the first log jams that needs to be untangled “Gordian knot” stylie. In this [...]

Perspective

The biggest known galaxy is IC 1101, which is 1 billion light years away in the ginormous Abell 2029 cluster. It contains 100 trillion stars and is six million light years in diameter.

Flip-down walls on writer’s cabin

Dornob has the details