"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Mind-boggling fast. Akamai says their content delivery system last Friday had massive demand for sports video and their biggest day ever. They had 500 billion requests for content or 12 million requests per second. Traffic peaked at 3.45 Tbps per…
Alex Steffen at Worldchanging goes, perhaps, heretical, saying future sustainability depends on building compact cities where you don’t need a car to get around. We want density, we want a lot more density. Compact cities are the key to sustainable…
Yesterday’s editorial in Sri Lanka’s Sunday Leader used harsh words to mourn the death of democracy in that country– “no longer a criticism or a warning, it is simply reality.” The ongoing tragedy of Sri Lanka, and the use of…
Cobalt Technologies has developed a way to turn lodgepole pines killed by the pine beetle into biobutanol. “If we use only half of the 2.3 million acres currently affected in Colorado alone, we could produce over two billion gallons of…
What is not clear from Andrew Sullivan’s article or the church documents is that Kiesle [the priest] was defrocked in February 1987 – and yet was *still* working in youth ministry in May 1988: The only sane voice appearing in…