Month May 2007

Solar tower in Spain

MetaEfficient has the details and a video on the spectacular solar tower in Spain. It’s already producing enough power for 6,000 homes and may be able to do ten times that soon. Spain also mandates that new homes have solar…

Choose your passwords well

Blog Herald has an excellent piece on how to choose a strong password, with lots of references and links. Good stuff. Passwords of at least eight characters using mixed case are considered strong. While password cracking programs can try thousands…

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More on Tyler Froatz

As reported here, Tyler Froatz was arrested on May 1 in DC on weapons charges and for assaulting Sarah Sloan of the ANSWER Coalition at an immigrant rights rally in DC. He is being held without bail. Kristinn Taylor, who…