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Gil Friend
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Wednesday, May 7, 2003

Europeans Lagging in Greenhouse Gas Cuts. Ten of the 15 European Union nations are falling behind in efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and meet targets set by the Kyoto Protocol. By Emma Daly. [New York Times: Science]

The union's largest economies, Germany and Britain, have cut such emissions by more than the agreed amount, while France just reached its goal.
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Just saw a fascinating film: "Sex and Lucia" ["Lucia y el Sexo"] A complex and very engaging Spanish romantic tangle. Billed on the box as "the most erotic film ever" [it's not, though quite juicy and well done in that department], but it's quite intricate, somewhat haunting, very engaging. Thumbs up.
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Why good design comes from bad design. ...I don't know what a good idea looks like until I've seen the bad ones... [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

Many of these ideas were awful, just plain unworkable. But with each idea I came up with, no matter how bad, it revealed some other way of thinking about the problem. Each new idea I sketched out was more informed than the last. Each bad idea illustrated some important aspect of the problem that I hadn't thought about before. Out of every five or six ideas, I'd have one or two that might be feasible.

Not a bad score at all. And not a novel notion, just too rarely remembered. Bercun kindly provides some great quotes with his article:

"The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site." -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Hemingway rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms 39 times. When asked about how he achieved his great works, he said, "I write 99 pages of crap for every one page of masterpiece." He has also been quoted as saying "the first draft of anything is shit."

"The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket." -- Albert Einstein

"Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ? Good writing means good revising." -- Strunk and White, Elements of Style
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[The Guardian]:

Marijuana, pornography and illegal labour have created a hidden market in the United States which now accounts for as much as 10% of the American economy, according to a study. As a cash crop, marijuana is believed to have outstripped maize, and hardcore porn revenue is equal to Hollywood's domestic box office takings.

Tax cuts can't touch that...
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