I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.
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BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, will shut its solar power unit and quit the business entirely after 40 years because it’s become unprofitable. They are staying in wind and biofuels though. Solar has become cut-throat competitive as prices keep dropping. greatergood.berkeley.edu Pardon my cynicism, but California has been here before. Balancing the budget seems insoluble. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, money drops from the heavens. Entire new sources of revenue are discovered! Sacramento rejoices. The budget will be balanced after all and there is much festivity. But then the Grinch sneaks in. The expected [...] Phsyogs: The Novel Card Game.Unknown Artist, British 1940s (Metropolitan Museum) Frank Pasquale at Concurring Opinions begins his recent post titled “Gamifying Control of the Scored Self” with this paragraph: Social sorting is big business. Bosses and bankers crave “predictive analytics:” ways of deciding who will be the best worker, borrower, or customer. Our economy is less likely to [...] In the parlance of backpacking, the Conqueror is bombproof, built to withstand extremely rugged conditions. It’s well-designed and engineered, sleeps six, has hot water, filtration to keep out dust, TV, shower, stove, refrigerator. The fully equipped version is at $58,000. This reminds me of Patagonia products. They’re expensive. But if you’re going mountaineering for [...] From Richard Branson In 2001 Portugal became the first European country to officially abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines. Jail time was replaced with offer of therapy. (The argument was that the fear of prison drives addicts underground and that incarceration is much more expensive than [...] After all they’ve done for the country too. Oh wait, they called anyone criticizing them “idiots” and of course made no reference to the rampant criminality by their class that is fueling the anger against them. Instead of being lauded when they appear in public they now fear being protested against. Oh the horror. [...] Wired.com The California Air Resources Board has proposed major changes in regulating vehicle emissions in hopes of improving California’s air quality, which is the worst in the nation. The plan combines four sets of standards into the Advanced Clean Cars program. The changes would be sweeping and all-inclusive. By 2025, auto manufacturers doing business [...] China’s Communist Party has for the first time on record, one reporter says, “lost all control.” In what is the culmination of months of unrest over a planned land seizure in Wukan, party officials have been completely ejected from the southern fishing village. The Communist Party’s stratgey of either buying out or crushing opposition [...] |  | ||||
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