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Monday, January 12, 2004 |
Seems to be posting now, after quit and relaunch. But who knows if it's working because of that, because of Andy Fragen's myFixFilePathsAndAddresses script, or because the server just decided to come back from its break...
8:25:36 PM 
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Once again, Radio is not updating. Trying to force the posts since Sunday night...
8:17:16 PM
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[Electrolite]: "He was the train we did not catch." John Clute reviews the finally-published first Heinlein novel. (via BoingBoing, who sez: 'The 140-comments-and-still-going discussion of this on Electrolite is just about the most fascinating literary/political/historical discussion I've ever read.')
6:38:26 PM
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BoingBoing's fulla gems today. Here's one:
Laws from interesting people:
Edge.org has asked a bunch of interesting people to formulate bits of wisdom phrased as "laws" -- they're quite good.
Morgan's Second Law: To a first approximation all appointments are canceled.
Brand's Pace Law: In haste, mistakes cascade. With deliberation, mistakes instruct.
Sterling's Corollary to Clarke's Law: Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic.
Link (via Kottke)
And one more (my probable favorite) from among the many::
Minksy's Second Law: Don't just do something. Stand there.
6:34:03 PM
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[USA Today]:
Starry eyed inventor -- actually named 'Starry' -- says he's spent $1m of his own cash on new airport design. His revolutionary design aims to efficiently handle an expected huge increase in air travel and dramatically reduce air pollution.... Starry says his design would cut air pollution at a single airport 56% and save 1,000 gallons of jet fuel per flight.
Interesting, though comments like this:
'I say, with total humility, I'm the only person on the planet with simple enough solutions that will make a large enough difference in a short enough period of time to save humanity from total environmental destruction.'
probably don't help his cause very much.
12:11:33 PM
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[Network World Fusion]: According to my buddy David Stephenson,
Many corporations have been less than enthusiastic about new homeland security responsibilities, which they see as threatening to disrupt just-in-time manufacturing strategies, impose new costs and introduce yet another set of regulations. There were similar complaints when environmental regulations were imposed in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet, by the early 1990s, companies such as DuPont and 3M had gained a competitive advantage by adopting waste-reduction strategies that were good for the environment and the bottom line.
I believe a similar paradigm shift, from viewing homeland security as a costly burden to seeing it as a competitive advantage, is possible. There are three benefits to companies taking the lead on homeland security strategies that don't just meet the letter of the law, but do so in a synergistic way [affecting]:
- Increased collaboration....
- Error reduction....
- Employee empowerment.
10:29:23 AM
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[GreenBiz]: Sales of certified renewable energy grew substantially during 2002, according to a new report from the Center for Resource Solutions.... The report shows over 1.9 million megawatt-hours of certified renewable resources procured in 2002 -- a doubling over 2001.
Substantially faster than the overall rate of growth of renewable energy worldwide, reportedly ~20%.
10:25:05 AM
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