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Gil Friend
Strategic Sustainability, and other worthy themes of our time
        

Saturday, February 5, 2005

Ask me how!

Feel the adrenaline rush of stalking the really big game [^] like the Denali[dot accent], Yukon[dot accent], or Tahoe[dot accent]. Get the thrill of witnessing the tagging of an Excursion[dot accent], Expedition[dot accent], or Escalade[dot accent] with a not-so-subtle message that will leave them scratching their heads.

Disclaimer: This may not be not 'socially responsible,' folks; may not even be legal. Sure is clever, though!

Jane says It's socially redeeming, you old fogey! (I think she missed the tongue in my cheek.) Random acts of... truth.
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Shouldn't I have something better to do on a Saturday night?

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[Social Design Notes]: Despite increasing consolidated and homogenous media and increasingly pervasive Internet access, ideology exists spatially.

Six links in that posting. Click 'em all. You'll see a fascinating range of cartographic interpretations on the Bush-Kerry election, which offer some very different perspectives on what the election actually disclosed about the mind of the country -- and which suggest very different political strategies for the Democrats. Consider the difference (these maps courtesy of
Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman, University of Michigan) between this:

and this:



and this:

In this map, it appears that only a rather small area is taken up by true red counties, the rest being mostly shades of purple with patches of blue in the urban areas.


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Another find from our friends at WorldChanging: do-it-yourself interactive maps.

Bonus: Social Design Notes is also making the application, with maps, available for download as datafiles, for others to use as they see fit.

The guy behind the map has lots of other cool stuff too, out on the edges of interative information display.

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...says Thomas Friedman on Tim Russert's show on CNBC (sorry, can't find a link to a feed). Geo-Green -- an aggressive, renewables based energy independence program for the US (and, ohmigawd, a gasoline tax!), to (among other things) drive down the price of oil to deny massive financial flows to Saudi Arabia, Iran, et al they they use to prop up corrupt regimes, fund inefficient state industries to temporarily absorb the demographic challenge of a growing and young population -- in contrast to President Bush's program of "no mullah left behind."

What was the first Arab country to discover oil? Bahrain. The first to run out of oil? Bahrain. The first to hold open elections, where women could vote, and run for office? Bahrain. Coincidence? I don't think so. (Approximate, not verbatim, quote. Transcripts at 800-777-8398)

Friedman calls for a 'Manhattan Program' for energy independence. Wonder if he's aware of the Apollo Alliance plan for good jobs and energy independence or Rocky Mountain Institute's Winning the Oil Endgame?

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