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    Two Vimeos

    By Donal on Mon, 07/25/2011 - 1:18pm | Arts & Entertainment

    Vimeo is so different than YouTube. I found these two on Neatorama. The first one is a tribute to an easy to guess person, and rather dark. The second is strictly for laughs.

    Overtime from ouryatlan on Vimeo.

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    Meet the New Limits, Same as the Old Limits

    By Donal on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:58am | Politics



    I have commented before that Malthus didn't actually predict a Malthusian Catastrophe. In his An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the Future Improvement of Society with remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers, he argued that rather than being freed to live in utopian conditions, the human population would continue to be resource-limited in bad times, self-limited in good times and that misery would result if these limits weren't effective enough. But even my high school biology textbook told me that Malthus had incorrectly predicted that we were doomed to run out of food.

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    Cenk Uygur explains

    By Donal on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 7:33pm | Media

    I can't believe they prefer Al Sharpton to this guy.

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    Not Forgetting the Unemployed

    By Donal on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 11:30am | Social Justice

    The Consumerist blog led me to Down But Not Out Letters, a selection of fifty letters from the six thousand sent in by unemployed persons to describe their situations. I've quoted paragraphs from a few of them below:
     

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    Peak Debt

    By Donal on Sun, 07/17/2011 - 9:56am | Politics

    We're seeing the most visible opposition to raising the debt ceiling from Republicans and the Tea Party. Some few old-style conservatives may actually believe in fiscal responsibility, but movement conservatives - who have reflexively voted for increases under previous administrations - are now exploiting the issue to appease the Tea Party and to obstruct Obama. 

     
    For very different reasons, many voices in the Energy Depletion community are also very much against raising the debt limit. Briefly, they feel that increased spending can only be supported by continued growth, and that continued growth can't be supported now that we are past the peak of oil, and probably closer to the peak of natural gas and coal than most people realize.
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    For and Against Rail

    By Donal on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 5:59pm | Technology

     
    I am in favor of a better, more extensive rail system, but I wonder if high-speed rail is cost effective and what we really need. As if to read my mind, The Infrastructurist features a four part series, For and Against High-Speed Rail, each with a con and pro position. 
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    American Meat docufilm

    By Donal on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 9:05pm | Food & Drink

    Above is a summary of the soon-to-be-released documentary American Meat.

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    David Brooks' Last Aid

    By Donal on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 11:05am | Social Justice



    I've mentioned National Lampoon's 1973 Last Aid parody before, but I didn't expect anyone to take it seriously.

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    2012 Prius Plug In Prototype

    By Donal on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 8:53pm | Technology

    Alex from TTAC in a very informative video about a plugin Prius with very impressive fuel efficiency.

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    Of Human Wandage

    By Donal on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 1:14pm | Arts & Entertainment

    Last weekend, my daughter thrust Somerset Maugham's great novel at me and said, "You should read this, Dad." She does that a lot and I therefore always have a small stack of books to get through, but I did start reading Of Human Bondage, and I love it. But with all the hoopla about the final Potter film being released NOW! it does occur to me that Harry Potter and Philip Carey have more than a little in common.

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    EVs on the Grid

    By Donal on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 4:57pm | Technology

    When I flew to Los Angeles for the 1999 AEC Systems show, in which vendors showed all the latest and greatest cad and other software products to architects, engineers and contractors, my high school buddy Jim picked me up at the airport in his EV-1. It was an impressive vehicle, very sleek and stylish compared to the EVs I had seen before or had imagined from Popular Mechanics covers.  

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    Free Energy

    By Donal on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 11:36am | Technology

    Americans select dilithium crystals to power the next generation
     

    In a Gallup poll released today, Americans chose dilithium crystals as the top choice of fuel to run both cars and power plants, with 84% of Americans choosing the crystals over other options including nuclear, hydrogen, corn ethanol, shale gas, and photovoltaic solar panels.
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    The Last Mountain

    By Donal on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 9:03pm | Technology

    Miller-McCune profiles a new documentary about destroying the environment to get coal.

     

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    Cut Outs

    By Donal on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 10:53pm | Arts & Entertainment

    Back around 1992, I bought a pile of cassettes from a cutout rack somewhere. One was The Stone Roses, by a Manchester band of the same name that produced this breakthrough album before becoming entangled in legal problems. Even though the album was released in 1989, SR sounded to me like a jumble of Dave Clark Five, Kinks and Doors with a bit of the wall of sound thing going on.

    I Wanna Be Adored

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    Big Babe Semifinals

    By Donal on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 8:32am | Sports

    Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and Bobby Riggs were each 5'-7" tall. Jimmy Connors was 5'-9 1/2".

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    Lifeline to a drowning state

    By Donal on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 9:01pm | World Affairs

    I found the TED video above on McClatchy's Mexico unmasked blog: 

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    Wimbledon Men's Quarterfinals

    By Donal on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 1:54pm | Sports

    Jo-Wilfried Tsonga -his father was Congolese but no one questions his French citizenship.

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    New Blood at Wimbledon

    By Donal on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 12:38pm | Sports

    Looks like Peter Bodo was right:

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