Seems that ATT censored the webcast of Pearl Jam's Lallapalooza set. Now, broadcasters have held the bleep in reserve for as long as there has been broadcasting, ok, fine. What is striking here is that the bleep man was ready to bleep political commentary--criticism of President Bush. (And, if there are any Bush supporters reading, ask yourself if ( Read more... )

And now for something completely different and much lighter.

These are some of the photographs I took on my recent trip to St. Louis, at which I visited family, played tourist, and went to Archon 31/NASFiC 9, a science fiction convention. Some are friends-locked; I am not sure how public some of the subjects want to be.


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...except that Clinton has almost no policy at all. Summary of the Democratic Pestilential candidates energy "policies". My exasperated comments:

1. Bio-fuels are one of the most inefficient ways to gather solar energy for transportation imaginable. In addition, bio-fuel agriculture competes with food production, and uses valuable water.
2. There is no ( Read more... )

...if they did, they'd have saved me a seat. Instead, here I am traveling to St. Louis from Portland, via Oakland and Las Vegas. Hippety-hoppity here we come ( Read more... )

Streetlights that shut down when the moon is full. They even save energy.

bellatrys, having just encountered Tiptree and been surprised and unhappy at what she found, has set me to rereading James Tiptree, Jr./Alice Sheldon. Tiptree/Sheldon, for those of you hiding under a rock for the past 40 years or so, was a research psychologist and CIA field agent. She was also, almost peripherally, an sf writer from the 1960s-80s, noted as ( Read more... )

Congratulations to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, and the first woman ever to hold that position in the history of the USA.

And here we have California conservatives going solar. All hail the Viridian Pope-Emperor, who has been working to make sustainable energy stylish for years, the Rocky Mountain Institute, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, GZ Brown ( Read more... )

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