EU to US, clean up your act!

Europe’s rules forcing U.S. firms to clean up. Unwilling to surrender sales, companies struggle to meet the EU’s tough stand on toxics.

Baldwin Park counter-demonstration

City Council receives death threats for opposing racist group The city of Baldwin Park has a monument at a MetroLink stop honoring Mexican culture, not surprising for a heavily Latino city. The Save Our State organization, a new anti-immigration group…

Thought for the day

“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.” –…

Venezuela asks U.S. to extradite Posada over bombing

Venezuela asked the United States on Friday to extradite a Cuban exile and former CIA collaborator for his suspected involvement in the downing of a Cuban airliner in a case that tests the U.S. commitment to combat all forms of…

GE goes Green

Yet another wonderful rant by Bruce Sterling from the Viridian Design, a movement, focused on global warming.The triple parens are his comments. “GE to invest more in green technology”(((“GE defects to Greenhouse believers, Exxon-Mobil doomed”))) “WASHINGTON (AFP) May 09, 2005“General Electric…

Swiss ski resort swaddles glacier to stop melting

A Swiss ski resort Tuesday wrapped up an entire glacier to stop it melting and to protect ski runs. The WWF environmental group said that “covering up glaciers is not going to solve the problem of global warming.” Only climate…

Podcast split

Winer and Curry fall out. Blog god Dave Winer, the founder of Podcasting, has fallen out with former MTV-DJ Adam Curry, according to posts at Scripting News. It appears that Winer has taken deep offence to an interview Curry gave…