I think everyone here will agree with me, Google Maps is just cool! You can browse all around the globe looking at things. Tall things, deep things, grand things, and scary things… Like a little area in China… [ Google Map ] At first glance it’s just another part of the world complete with snow [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Jul 27
Nigeria orders a million OLPCs
What is the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Initiative? Just like it sounds, the OLPC initiative aims at supplying one laptop per child. The laptop’s concept has been to supply children around the world with low power, battery, plug-in, or hand-crank, Linux-based laptop. The aim is to be able to sell these for under $100 [...]
Jul 26
This is ponderous
Back in highshool I grew to like a group called 2Nu. They had a song called “This is Ponderous” which got attention all over the air-waves. It prompted me to buy their album where I discovered many interesting and pleasant songs. Three of my favorites weren’t so much songs as stories set to music: “Frank’s [...]
Jul 26
Electricity
Ali’s post about how a 3-year old thinks about a power failure got me thinking about self-sustainability again. He huffed and he puffed My neighbor (Russell Kuck) has a wind turbine in his back yard. I’ve never met him (he lives a couple miles away), but I have talked to him on the phone about [...]
Jul 25
Police: "That's not my job"
Salt Lake City Utah Police found the body of five-year old Destiny Nortson this morning in the basement of a house 150 feet from her home. [KSL News Story] The police can’t protect us, they cannot protect our children. They are not chartered to do so, they are not required to do so. Their job [...]
