Month June 2010

Good morning!

Three banks failed yesterday Romania is having a full-tilt financial crisis The financial reform bill isn’t. And the Gulf might get a hurricane. (What’s that you say, you’re going back to bed…)

Green Party National Meeting

The Green Party has come through a serious bad patch and may be poised to become a major third party force again. I was Co-coordinator of the Green Party of Los Angeles County from 2001-2002. It was an extremely dysfunctional…

How Facebook works

Pingdom has a fascinating, detailed article on the software Facebook uses to run what is now the world’s largest website, much of which is open source. How big is Facebook? They have half a billion active users, serve 570 billion…

London desal plant to run on used cooking oil

London is in a severe drought. They have a new desalination plant which, like all such plants, uses enormous amounts of energy. So, they are collecting used fish fry oil from across the city and using it to help power…