Monthly Archives: April 2009

Robots slideshow.

Interesting set of robots on cio.com.

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Simple Solar Cooker to help reduce firewood usage.

Not a complete solution (what do you do when it rains) but you can just see that something like this will be useful even in India where there’s plenty of sunshine to go around. A simple solar cooker.

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Posner Has Doubts About Markets Setting CEO Salaries – Spitzer Comments.

Posner and his view are interesting to read. He’s clearly free market, so coming from him, this is big. This is actually Spitzer in Slate.

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More Places to Visit – Belize for Birding and Utah for National Parks

Belize – Birders Paradise, wonder how it compares to Costa Rica. NYT – America’s Outback

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3 Yoga Poses for Insomnia: How-to Videos « Gaiam Blog

http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/3-yoga-poses-for-insomnia-how-to-videos/.

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Obama’s Ersatz Capitalism – NYTimes.com

Here’s Stiglitz’s commentary. If the private partnership is going to be so low, why not just get into the loan making business directly? If indeed these loans are good to buy, then maybe the deficit will come down because of … Continue reading

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Talking about Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Draw Quality Complaints – NYTimes.com

I know a lot of what they talk about here but then I’m certainly different from the average customer on this http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/business/energy-environment/28bulbs.html, I actually wanted to learn and understand more. There’s got be a reason why GE light bulbs cost … Continue reading

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