Month July 2008

Peak oil doomster gloom

To paraphrase Waylon Jennings, Don’t you think this doomster bit has done got out of hand. That’s what Paul Kedrofsky asked on Twitter, “are peak oil theorists turning into doomster defeatists?”, linking to a discussion on The Oil Drum. Yeah,…

Running on empty: Life without cheap oil

Jim Kuntsler on how the end of cheap oil quite possibly means the end of mass-scale enterprises like industrial farming and a rise in political turmoil as the dispossessed see their way of life slip away. Kuntsler is even less…

Apple sells 3 million iPhones in 3 days

I’ll be buying one soon. Three primary reasons. GigaOm said the new iPhone is capable enough on the Net that it will increasingly be used instead of a computer. Then there’s Me.com, the replacement for dot Mac, which puts everything…