Think It’s Bad Now?

Enjoy what could well be our last few months of culturally reinforced American insularity and relative plenitude. But at least put this bit of news in your pipe and smoke it in the meantime.  Talk about it with family and friends. Or start digging up your backyard to grow some veggies.
I’m a happy guy despite [...]

Hoovering, Government Style

Fascinating testimony from Russell Tice, NSA Whistleblower examining NSA data collection methods and the involvement of major telcos in sharing your (our) information. Was your electronic communication and credit information collected and scrutinized by spooks and their elaborate data mining tools in this massive undertaking? Hmm, sure looks like it. Tice has been speaking out [...]

US Business asks government to act on US carbon emissions

So much for our vaunted free market economics and laissez faire government; it ain’t working. When US businesses and their investors ask for carbon emissions growth to be reigned in by US government it’s got to be for a dayam good reason.
Are you people in Washington D.C. even living on the same planet?
Link to Financial [...]

Australia to Ban Incandescent Bulbs

A radical concept embraced by Fidel Castro two years ago is set to take root down under: mandating the adoption of more efficient lighting across this huge country by banning resource- and carbon-intensive light bulbs.
You could be this radical today by just going to Home Depot or Lowes and replacing all your light bulbs with [...]

February 20, 2007 • Tags: , • Posted in: Environment, Tech • No Comments

Bored Federales?

Welcome government readers:
Our tax dollars at work surfing the web, and my site?
Host Name: clayton.state.gov
IP Address: 169.252.4.21
Country: United States
Region: District Of Columbia
City: Washington
ISP: U.S. Department Of State
Returning Visits: 1
Visit Length: 10 mins 31 secs
Interesting what site logs reveal. In this case, to [...]

June 3, 2006 • Tags: , • Posted in: Opinion, People, Tech • No Comments