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Slashdot by timothy 23 Nov 2008 at 12:31am tiffanydanica writes "For all the flack Mozilla gets about its new security warnings for https sites, at least it warns the user when a mismatch occurs. Sadly the new Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop (released in part to fix some security issues), doesn't bother validating the SSL certificate on the other side before sending along the username and password, making it vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. This is certainly a step up from transmitting the information in the clear, since the attacker must switch from being passive to active, but with all of the DNS security problems, it would be fairly trivial for a malicious attacker to grab a large number of Yahoo! accounts (be it for phishing or spaming). Hopefully this issue will get fixed shortly, but for now Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop users may wish to use the webmail interface." Read more of this story at Slashdot. by timothy 22 Nov 2008 at 9:27pm DeviceGuru writes "Claiming that service-class robots will one day be pervasive, researchers at the University of the West of England's Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) have begun investigating ways to make robots seem more human. As part of a project to enhance robot/human relationships, BRL has created a robotic head that can exhibit emotions, based on both verbal and non-verbal queues. Check out the videos in the article — especially the slightly creepy one in which the robot contemplates its purpose and its relationship to its environment." Read more of this story at Slashdot. by timothy 22 Nov 2008 at 6:29pm An anonymous reader writes "I'm sure this is something all older Slashdotters are aware of: as I get older my once-sharp brain is, well, getting worse. In particular, I'm not able to remember things as well as I once did. As a geek my capacity in this area was always what defined me as a geek. Nowadays things seem to go in OK, but then leak out. A few weeks later I've mostly forgotten. So, I ask Slashdot: how do you cope with your mind getting older? What's your trick? Fish-oil? Brain Training on the DS? Exercise? Or just trying harder to remember things?" Read more of this story at Slashdot. by timothy 22 Nov 2008 at 5:13pm GalacticNoob writes "According to this post, Google is about to launch a TV advertising program that will let advertisers target audiences based on demographics including their household income. A satellite TV company called Echostar is working with credit-reporting company Equifax to cross-reference shows watched with income and buying habits (based on using Equifax's data)." Read more of this story at Slashdot. by timothy 22 Nov 2008 at 3:56pm Ahmed Kamal writes "What happens when you take a solid system such as Ubuntu Hardy, unplug its Linux kernel, and plug in a replacement OpenSolaris kernel? Then you marry Debian's apt-get to Solaris' zfs file-system? What you get is Nexenta Core Platform OS. Let's take Nexenta for a quick spin, installing and configuring this young but promising system." Read more of this story at Slashdot. by timothy 22 Nov 2008 at 2:37pm CWmike writes "Microsoft asked a federal judge yesterday to end the class-action lawsuit that has been the source of a treasure trove of embarrassing insider e-mails covering everything from managers badmouthing Intel to others on who worried how Vista would be compared to Apple's Mac OS X in 2005. In seeking to end the case, Microsoft argues the plaintiffs have not demonstrated that the lowest-priced version of Windows Vista was not the 'real' Vista, or showed that users paid more for PCs prior to the new operating system's launch because of the Vista Capable campaign." Read more of this story at Slashdot. by timothy 22 Nov 2008 at 1:28pm CyberKnet writes "Some enterprising folks over at Google have collaborated via Google Documents to create holiday art using cells in a spreadsheet as the pixels. A time delay video was taken and is available over at YouTube and the result is pretty spectacular. More info on how they did this is available behind the scenes. They're inviting people to share their own masterpieces or post a video response over on YouTube." Read more of this story at Slashdot. by Soulskill 22 Nov 2008 at 12:21pm jerico.dev writes "I am currently selecting a CM tool for a project. Important condition: the software must be OSI compliant. I considered Alfresco, since they call themselves 'open source.' Then I heard from several of Alfresco's partners that they are not allowed to do projects based on Alfresco's GPL edition because their partnership contract denied them the right to do so. They only can support Alfresco's enterprise edition. But Alfresco's VP of business development Matt Asay told me that their enterprise edition is not OSI compliant. Does anyone in the Slashdot crowd have experience with partner contracts of other OSS vendors? Is it normal that Sun, Red Hat, etc. force their partners to decline projects based on their open source editions? It's probably legal to do so, but do you think it is legitimate and fair?" Read more of this story at Slashdot. by Soulskill 22 Nov 2008 at 11:20am An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the Hartford Courant: "Almost 18 months after a pornography conviction that could have sent her to jail for 40 years was thrown out, former Norwich substitute teacher Julie Amero plead guilty to a single charge of disorderly conduct Friday afternoon. The plea deal before Superior Court Judge Robert E. Young in Norwich ends a long-running drama that attracted attention from around the world. ... She had originally been charged with 10 counts of risk of injury to a minor and later convicted on four of them. ... In June of 2007, Judge Hillary B. Strackbein tossed out Amero's conviction on charges that she intentionally caused a stream of 'pop-up' pornography on the computer in her classroom and allowed students to view it. Confronted with evidence compiled by forensic computer experts, Strackbein ordered a new trial, saying the conviction was based on 'erroneous' and 'false information.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. by Soulskill 22 Nov 2008 at 10:18am Hugh Pickens writes "In the first such system deployed in the country, police vehicles in Ponca City, Oklahoma will have wireless video cameras installed so precinct dispatchers and supervisors can monitor activities during traffic stops in real time, and quickly deploy additional officers and resources if necessary. The system to provide an added level of monitoring and protection for its force is part of a broadband mesh network comprised of more than 490 wireless nodes and gateways connected to 120 miles of fiber backbone that will provide coverage for approximately 30 square miles of the city. The network will provide field communications for city services including police, fire and emergency, parks and recreation, public works and energy, but will also be used to provide free wireless internet access for all residents of the city. 'The testing of this network showed that it was robust enough to handle not only municipal traffic, but also citizens' traffic.' said Mayor Homer Nicholson. 'So the Ponca City Board of Commissioners voted to allow the extra internet access to be given to the citizens of Ponca City for free.' The second phase of the project will expand the network and wireless coverage to more than 430 square miles surrounding the city with an estimated annual cost savings of over $1 million for city residents, who can discontinue their existing internet service. 'Our goal is to be one of the most mobile communities in America, and this is a significant step in that direction,' said Nicholson." Read more of this story at Slashdot. by Soulskill 22 Nov 2008 at 9:16am Julie188 writes "Slow-moving ocean and river currents could be a new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source. A University of Michigan engineer, Michael Bernitsas, has made a machine that works like a fish to turn potentially destructive vibrations in fluid flows into clean, renewable power. This is is the first known device that could harness energy from most of the water currents around the globe because it works in flows moving slower than 2 knots (about 2.3 miles per hour). Most of the Earth's currents are slower than 3 knots. Turbines and water mills need an average of 5 or 6 knots to operate efficiently. Further details and a few brief movies of the technology are available, as well as a video explanation by Professor Bernitsas himself." Read more of this story at Slashdot. by Soulskill 22 Nov 2008 at 8:16am Lucas123 writes "The Clinton administration generated 32 million e-mails. Bush's administration has generated 50 times as much data — 140TB, 20TB of which is email — which soon will have to be archived through a new government-built records management system. The new system may not be up to the task because the technology behind it may not be able to handle the sheer volume of data along with the fact that the Bush administration has been slow in providing the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) with needed information about the records, according to a Computerworld story. Questions have also been raised about millions of missing e-mails from between March 2003 and October 2006. 'It wasn't until this summer that an intensive effort began to share information,' said Ken Thibodeau, director of NARA's Electronic Records Archives." Read more of this story at Slashdot. by Soulskill 22 Nov 2008 at 7:15am Barence writes "Microsoft has confirmed that Internet Explorer 8 will not be officially released until 2009. According to a blog posting on the Internet Explorer 8 development site, a release candidate of the browser will be released in the first quarter of next year, to be followed by a final release at an unspecified date. This news comes on the same day that Google is considering bundling its Chrome browser with new PCs. Will the IE delay and Google's tactics help to steer users in Chrome's direction?" Read more of this story at Slashdot. by Soulskill 22 Nov 2008 at 4:10am circletimessquare brings us an update to the status of the million-dollar Netflix competition to develop a better algorithm for movie recommendations. We've discussed aspects of the competition since it started two years ago, but the New York Times has a lengthy overview of where it stands now. "The Netflix competition is still going strong, with a vibrant, competitive roster of some 30,000 programmers around the globe hard at work trying to win the prize. The Times provides a look at some of the more obsessive searchers, such as Len Bertoni, a semi-retired computer scientist near Pittsburgh who logs 20 hours a week on the problem, oftentimes with the help of his children. There's also Martin Chabbert in Montreal: 'After the kids are asleep and I've packed the lunches for school, I come down at 9 in the evening and work until 11 or 12.' The article gets into the history of the search algorithm Netflix currently uses, and explores the hot commodity called 'singular value decomposition' that serves as the basis for most of the algorithms in competition." Read more of this story at Slashdot. by Soulskill 22 Nov 2008 at 1:08am holy_calamity writes "Some grainy black and white movies are receiving rave reviews from scientists. They are taken by a new microscope which, thanks to a 'strobing' electron gun, can image movement at sub-nanometer scales. Until now, only still images that smeared out movement were possible at such scales. The press release notes, 'The researchers first blasted the sample with a pulse of heat. The heated carbon atoms began to vibrate in a random, nonsynchronized fashion. Over time, however, the oscillations of the individual atoms became synchronized as different modes of the material locked in phase, emerging to become a heartbeat-like "drumming."' Further details and a few animations are available at Caltech's site." Read more of this story at Slashdot. MAKE Magazine  by Phillip Torrone 23 Nov 2008 at 2:00am
by Jason Striegel 23 Nov 2008 at 12:00am
You can connect to the Wii remote over bluetooth or use an Arduino to send peripheral data to the Wiimote, but what if you want to interface directly with the Wiimote's IR camera? The sensor is particularly good at tracking coordinates for 1 to 4 points—it could be a simple way to add sophisticated tracking capabilities to your own project. David Cranor writes, There is a great site about hacking the wiimote IR camera to interface it with a computer - but it's all in Japanese! Perhaps you could post these links and see if anybody could translate it?
And this page talks about how to connect the camera to an Arduino via some of I2C shield that he's built. I'd really like to have access to this information for my projects, so if somebody would be able to translate these pages, that would be awesome! A quick run through Google's Japanese to English translator yielded a reasonably understandable result: Wii IR sensor connection details The second link contains a wealth of information on talking to the IR sensor over I2C, including some details on adjusting sensitivity parameters. The translation is a little rough, but combined with some of the sample code, I think I have the gist of it: To initialize the IR camera, you have two options: 1) a simple, default initialization or 2) an initialization that allows you to specify 4 configuration parameters that affect the sensitivity of the device. Simple Initialization: Initialization with sensitivity setting: Level 1: p0 = 0x72, p1 = 0x20, p2 = 0x1F, p3 = 0x03 Quoting the Wiimote Wiki IR sensor page, these parameters correspond to: Either pick your own custom settings for the parameters, or choose them from one of the 5 levels above, then send the following data to the device: 0x30, 0x01 The author also links to the following source, which serves as a helloworld for reading sensor data directly from the IR camera: Wii Remote IR sensor test for Arduino Finally, since the IR sensor is a 3.3v device, you'll want to do a little voltage conversion before interfacing it directly with a 5v device like your typical Arduino (Arduino Pro users don't have to do a thing). Sparkfun has a guide for using 3.3v electronics with 5v microcontrollers, which should be all you need. It makes me wonder if anyone sells a pre-built 3.3v shield. Hopefully this is all you'll need to get things working. Make sure to send us a tip if you make something cool using the Wii IR sensor. Previously: by John Park 22 Nov 2008 at 7:00pm
Beautifully designed prop documents in convenient .pdf form. Just download, customize the text, and print your own 1920s-style telegrams, ID cards, and more. These were created for live-action H.P. Lovecraft gamers, but anyone can enjoy them. Admittedly, this would have been nice to know about before Halloween, but I'll bookmark it for next year. These were created by the talented Andrew Leman of ElectriClerk fame. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Crafts | Digg this!by Marc de Vinck 22 Nov 2008 at 2:00pm
More about the Telematic Drum Circle [Drum Instruments] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Music | Digg this!by Luke Iseman 22 Nov 2008 at 12:00pm
Bruce Sterling, sci-fi author / futurist / design critic extraordinaire, has posted his final Viridian note. He has lots of advice relevant for Makers. Some of my favorite: Get excellent tools and appliances. Not a hundred bad, cheap, easy ones. Get the genuinely good ones. Work at it. Pay some attention here, do not neglect the issue by imagining yourself to be serenely "non-materialistic." There is nothing more "materialistic" than doing the same household job five times because your tools suck. Do not allow yourself to be trapped in time-sucking black holes of mechanical dysfunction. That is not civilized.
Good experiments are well-designed experiments. Real experiments need a theory. They need something to prove or disprove. Experiments need to be slotted into some larger context of research, and their results need to be communicated to other practitioners. That's what makes them true "experiments" instead of private fetishes. If you're buying weird tech gizmos, you need to know what you are trying to prove by that. You also need to tell other people useful things about it. If you are truly experimenting, then you are doing something praiseworthy. You may be wasting some space and time, but you'll be saving space and time for others less adventurous. Good. And, an exciting new project on which he can use your help: This new effort of mine is a scholarly work exploring material culture, use-value, ethics, and the relationship between materiality and the imagination. However, since nobody's easily interested in that huge, grandiose topic, I'm disguising it as a nifty and attractive gadget book. I plan to call it "The User's Guide to Imaginary Gadgets." Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Green | Digg this!by Phillip Torrone 22 Nov 2008 at 3:00am
According to my thermometer, common coffee brewers produce a cup of perfect coffee that is positively molten to the tongue, at 71ºC. Even as this marvelous beverage fills your room-temperature cup, temps can still reach a blistering 58ºC. Finally, after a couple of minutes cooling, your coffee is safe to drink, at a lukewarm 47ºC. A simple circuit consisting of a thermistor, a special low-power operational amplifier (op amp) IC, an LED, and a couple of passive components will enable us to safely monitor the temperature of our coffee cup. Bundle this circuit inside a round metal container (metal helps conduct the cup's heat to the circuit) and you have a Smart Coaster. by Becky Stern 22 Nov 2008 at 3:00am Download the MP4 Video or HD Version | Subscribe to CRAFT in iTunes | mov | 3g2 I caught up with craftzine blogger and Austin local Rachel Hobson at Maker Faire Austin 2008, where she gave a demo on making the Mini Monsters from CRAFT:06. These fun little creatures, invented by Moxie, are unique and full of the personality you give them. This is a very kid-friendly project, and you can buy the Mini Monster Kit in the Maker Shed. Don't forget that all craft kits are 10% off until the end of November using promo code CRAFTER. 
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by Jason Striegel 21 Nov 2008 at 11:30pm
Ian Lesnet sent in a link to his Bus Pirate project, a universal bus adapter that lets you interface with most standard integrated circuit serial protocols at different voltages - all from you PC's serial port. The idea is that you can debug, test, and prototype ideas a lot faster if you don't have to breadboard an interface circuit every time you work with a new chip. the bus pirate is a serial terminal bridge to multiple ic interface protocols. we type commands into a serial terminal on the computer. the commands go to the bus pirate through the pc serial port. the bus pirate talks to a microchip in the proper protocol, and returns the results to the pc.
the serial terminal interface works with any system: pc, mac, linux, palm pilots, wince devices, etc; no crapware required. we considered a usb device, but usb isn't compatible with the huge number of hand-held devices that have a serial port. we also wanted a 3.3volt device with 5volt tolerant inputs, but most popular through-hole usb microcontollers were 5volt parts (e.g. the pic18fx550). The device supports i2c, spi, uart/serial, and raw 2-wire and 3-wire. It looks like a pretty handy little tool, and Ian has included all the information you need to build one of your own. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!by Gareth Branwyn 21 Nov 2008 at 7:56pm
Eric J. Wilhelm, of Instructables, will be on NPR's "Weekend Edition Saturday" and WCBS-AM 880 this coming Monday to talk about The Best of Instructables for a holiday gift-themed program. The airtime for "Weekend Edition Saturday" will vary by market. The WCBS-AM program will air on 11/24 at 10:20 am, 11:40 am, 12:20pm, 1:40 pm, and 2:20 pm (all times ET). You can listen to it live at http://www.wcbs880.com/ Also, you can log onto NPR.org/gifts at 1:30pm ET tomorrow for a live chat featuring Eric talking about ECO-nomical holiday gifts!
Best Of Instructables Instructables.com has become one of the most popular magnets for makers and DIY enthusiasts of all stripes. Now, with more than 10,000 projects to choose from, the Instructables staff, the editors of MAKE magazine, and the Instructables community itself have put together a collection of some of the best craft and tech how-to's from the site. The Best of Instructables Volume 1 includes plenty of clear, full-color photos, complete step-by-step instructions, and tips, tricks, and new build techniques you won't find anywhere else. Over 300 pages and 120 projects! by John Park 21 Nov 2008 at 7:00pm
I tried it out and it was very impressed by the speed and accuracy of the motion tracking (he did flicker a bit and have problems when my lights were too bright, so be prepared to work a bit to make him happy). This is a Flash implementation of augmented reality created by Digital Pictures Interactive; all it takes is your web browser, a webcam, and a printed marker symbol. Now, would it kill the little guy to smile every once in a while?! It seems to be based on the ARToolKit developed by Dr. Hirokazu Kato of the University of Washington. I enjoy Augmented Reality much more than Virtual Reality because 99% of the AR environment is the real world in all of its infinitely detailed glory and I can accept a few lower fidelity objects overlaid here and there. Even the highest quality VR worlds still feel much less than real in a way that usually pulls me out of the experience. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Computers | Digg this!by Luke Iseman 21 Nov 2008 at 6:00pm
The event also will feature the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, an awards program to recognize forward thinking and eco-conscious designers for their hard work, environmental awareness and creativity. Greener Gadgets offers an excellent platform for environmental discussion and serves as an opportunity to visualize the potential for a greener CE industry. WHEN: Friday, February 27, 2009 WHERE: McGraw-Hill Conference Center, New York, NY No speakers announced yet, but "Last year's keynoters included electronics engineer Mary Lou Jepsen of PixelQi and One Laptop Per Child, environmental photo artist Chris Jordan, and digital artist and inventor Natalie Jeremijenko." Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Green | Digg this!by Collin Cunningham 21 Nov 2008 at 5:00pm Musician/producer Pete Drake performs his song "Forever" with his steel guitar through a classic talkbox. A surreal and beautiful performance - the talkbox in use here is cool in and of itself! The freestanding design with handle is inspiring and simple talkboxes are pretty easy to make. [via Boing Boing] More:
by Gareth Branwyn 21 Nov 2008 at 4:00pm 
Silly, but nonetheless cool, steampunk telephone. The coolest thing is the punch cards you use to call a number. Okay, that's also the silliest thing about it. As Apartment Therapy says, it would give new meaning to the term "calling card." I hope one of those dials displays signal strength. Steampunk Cell Phone Takes Tech Backwards Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Retro | Digg this!by Collin Cunningham 21 Nov 2008 at 4:00pm
Yes I hereby proclaim this to be International Vegetable Music Week! Tyler of Oddinstrument shared pics from his Vegetable Instrument Workshop at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Attendees produced a number of auditory organics including a cucumber saxophone, coconut/carrot slide trumpet, and the butternut squash drum machine. More: |
TreeHugger 22 Nov 2008 at 10:00pm 
Image from garryknight
It's amazing what an Olympic victory can do for a country's cycling fervor. Yes, as noted by The Times' transport correspondent, Ben Webster, the British are in the midst of a cycling revival of sorts -- fueled as much by the recent hikes in energy prices as by their team's epic haul at the Beijing Olympics. The squad, which boasted two Olympic track cycling champions and a BMX wor...
22 Nov 2008 at 4:47pm 
(photo credit: Universal Studios Hollywood) Debut of Universal Studios Hollywood's Solar Golf Cart
Golf carts have long been associated with either business men with really bad taste in clothing (khaki pants and a gator/polo shirts), or important, silicone injected celebrity figures in Hollywood, such as Cher, Joan Rivers, Barnie the purple dinosaur, and Shrek the ogre.
Well, Joan and Cher were no where to be found as Universal Studios Hollywood celebrated their new addition to their green initiative in the p...
22 Nov 2008 at 1:59pm 
Leviticus 11:40 says "If any animal you may eat has died, anyone who carries its carcass...shall wash his clothes." Just don't use Downy fabric softener; according to Wired, (but not online at time of this writing) a main ingredient is Dihydrogenated tallow dimethyl ammonium chloride,
"a derivative of rendered fat from cattle, sheep and horses. Just boil it down and mix with ammonium. After a series of chemical pit stops, it comes out a quaternary ammonium compound, or quat...quats effectively coat your clothing with lipids, (fats) making the fibers soft to the touch."
The22 Nov 2008 at 1:06pm  Image: FactoryFarm.org on FlickrWe?ve talked about the pervasive industrial chemical melamine appearing in Chinese food ? from its domestic supplies of milk to its exports of wheat gluten found anywhere from pet food to chicken feed. We?ve also covered how new tracking measures are being implemented to improve food safety (see New Tracing System To ... 22 Nov 2008 at 12:15pm 
Coming soon to the Middle East? "The Ziggurat." (Image via World Architecture News)
Financial crisis or not, the folks in the Persian Gulf are thinking big, as usual. While construction projects in the rest of the world are grinding to a painful halt, two new ecocity-building projects have recently been unveiled in the Middle East: a conceptual pyramid-city for one million in Dubai and a $10 billion coastal city project for Qatar....
22 Nov 2008 at 9:05am 
photo thefuturistics @ flickr.
Recently I declared I'd never buy a $40 Kids Konserve lunchbox for a kid no matter how many sustainable bells and whistles it had. The price seemed unsustainable.
But it got me to thinking - and TreeHuggers on the lunch box forum thread seemed to agree - it's not all that easy to find a lunch box that meets all these criteria - as green as possible, not too heavy, sturdy, long lasting. As I was still thinking $40 was too steep for the Kids Konserve, I set out to put together a kid's (or a...
22 Nov 2008 at 8:40am 
The still un-named Toronto cyclist who lost his leg last weekend when squeezed between the rear end of a taxi and a signpost (see Taxi Driver Severs Cyclists' Leg in Violent Hit-and-Run) finally was coherent enough to give his statement to the police. The result:
Sultan Ahmed, 38, of Maple, Ontario has been charged with:
1) Criminal negligence causing bodily harm,
2) Dangerous operation causing bodily harm,
3) Fail to stop at scene of accident bodily harm,
4) Attempt to obstruct justice,
5) Aggravated assault,
6) Assault with weapon.
We still don't know the full story and the police are saying ??Althou...
22 Nov 2008 at 8:30am 
Afghan security forces watch over a new wind farm in Afghanistan?s Panjshir province. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Paul David Ondik.
Over the past few years, there?s been a lot of promising talk about bringing renewable energy to developing countries. Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, a generally windy region where 22 Nov 2008 at 8:00am 
image by apple
While the future of General Motors hangs in the balance, the future of public transit is getting more and more appealing. And much much easier.
If you ride mass transit, have an iphone, and live in any of these cities , you are about 245 megabytes away from being rewarded for your carfree lifestyle.
So now you can choose between the following two ways to plan your commute via public transit:
1)...
22 Nov 2008 at 7:00am 
photo: Sumter County Geographic Information System
With the already clear need for an animal shelter in Florida's Sumter County, the Humane Society/SPCA of Sumter County has outlined plans for Florida's first environmentally responsible animal shelter. After 26 years of serving the community without an animal shelter, the Humane Society/SPCA of Sumter County has begun its major capital campaign to raise the $1 million needed for construction of the 7,300 square foot structure. Read on to find out what makes this animal shelter so ...
21 Nov 2008 at 10:51pm 
Image from Joshua Rappeneker
It's not quite ocean iron fertilization, but I have a feeling this new geoengineering proposed will still raise quite a few hackles. The idea, which originated with Federico Magnani of Italy's University of Bologna, is, as the name implies, fairly straightforward: You would fertilize, or "dope," as the New Scientist's Catherine Brahic put it, trees...
21 Nov 2008 at 7:45pm 
Manhattan Borough President Stringer telling it like it is
photo via the Observer
I was surprised the other morning when Brian Lehrer, on his eponymous WNYC radio show, stated that he had received 600 comments suggesting Michael Pollan as President-elect Obama?s Secretary of Agriculture. Who knew New Yorkers cared so much about agricultu...
21 Nov 2008 at 3:58pm 
:: Get the do goodin' dirt from the man on a squeaky-clean and green mission, Josh Onysko of Pangea Organics.
:: Cranberry salsa? Now that's a modern and tasty twist on traditonal Thanksgiving fare. Try it along with these other deliciously sustainable side dishes.
:: Breathe new life into an old, unworn dress. Use its fabric to make a sexy new scarf!...
21 Nov 2008 at 3:14pm 
Image source: Gainesville
In anticipation of the upcoming meetings to update Kyoto next month in Poznan, Poland, the 53 African nations met recently to develop the Algiers Declaration, stating that they will vote as one bloc during climate change negotiations, reports the Monterey Herald. Forests, renewable energy and deserts are the three major issues that African nations are most concerned about and its felt that voting as one bloc will give them more power during negotiations. Europe is hoping to get in on the action....
21 Nov 2008 at 2:33pm 
Image source: Shuuichi Endou/Tuvalu Overview
Tuvalu, made up of four small coral-reef islands and five atolls off the coast of Australia, will be one of the first to go as sea levels continue to rise. Shuuichi Endou decided his response was to take 10,000 photographs, almost one for every person on the island to capture the spirit and essence of the people, reports the Japan Times Online. When the island is gone, and the population has dispersed and assimilated into area nations, will the photographs be the only thing keeping this nation together? ...
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