Chris Paine Resurrects the Electric Car Doc

I want to give a SHOUT OUT to all the Electric Vehicle Associations across the country. Last month I attended a meeting for the EVA/DC. These were not just people showing off shiny new cars. They were showing us the future. Where was this group when I was looking for silicon cells for my solar [...]

Your Cyber Security Blanket

Saturday, 2 April 2011, 17:59 | Category : Culture, Science and Technology
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I downloaded this manual after reading a very interesting article in the New York Times, “For Activists, Tips On Safe Use of Social Media.” The manual was created “for citizens in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond” by Access Global Movement for Digital Freedom. Access doesn’t appear to be a group of hackers with [...]

Eclectique Citizen: The President’s Weekly

Transcript available here. This week the President made his third trip to the Louisiana coast in lieu of a trip to Australia and Indonesia, to check on the lack of progress of BP’s next move on capping the oil pipe as well as the lack of confidence in the administration’s ability to bring BP to [...]

Watch and Weep

Friday, 28 May 2010, 20:25 | Category : Barack Obama, Environmentalism, Louisiana, Science and Technology
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This is the live feed from BP of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. They’ve restarted the “top kill” process of shooting heavy drilling mud into the hole to essentially “plug it up.” The video source and ticker is from PBS’s Newshour. The live feed was ordered by the U.S. Government. What a [...]

Back to the Future

Monday, 11 January 2010, 21:35 | Category : Culture, Science and Technology, TV News, White/Euro American, Women
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Meet Nexi. I was introduced to her via a CBS News special report on American Creativity and innovation – “Where America Stands.” Nexi was born in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. She is part of an on-going project to develop robots that can help out in the home and probably a few [...]