May 30

Michael Giberson
Geothermal power generators use temperature differences between the surface and areas deeper in the earth to move a gas or liquid through a loop and drive a turbine. (One example is the , which uses 165°F water from a geothermal well to help keep the ice museum cold.)
The system uses the difference between […]

May 30

Congratulations, David!
Author, blogger, activist, and friend, David Sirota releases his newest book, , today. Coinciding with the release David will be touring the country in support of this exciting new book. The tour launches today in Vermont with Senator Bernie Sanders joining David for an event.
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May 30

Here’s an interesting thought:
He also reported research that demonstrates patent renewal fees can be used to improve the innovation incentives generated by patent rights. Professor Schankerman set out an analysis of renewal fees as a tax on the property right conferred by a patent, and proposed that the effective tax rate be adjusted to provide […]

May 30

[I’m on my first trip to Japan as a guest of Lunarr - a Portland based tech start-up founded by two Japanese entrepreneurs Toru Takasuka and Hideshi Hamaguchi. On the trip with me is Marshall Kirkpatrick from Read Write Web, Bob Walsh from 47Hats, and, Kristen Nicole from Mashable.]
As we flew lower we were over […]

May 30

Yeah, but you’re the best looking man in Georgia Politics.
Ag Commissioner Tommy Irvin is at Crawford Long getting checked out for some medical testing. Good Luck Tommy. I expect to have a shot of Cointreau with you at the convention.

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(RuralDem on
May 29, 2008 12:10 PM)
Tommy Irvin is a giant […]

May 30

This is outrageous:
A Conservative government would have to compensate suppliers of the National Identity Scheme for lost profits as well as costs if it cancelled the project.
“To guarantee these payments knowing that a future Conservative government has already said it will scrap ID cards is improper and quite extraordinary,” shadow home secretary David Davis MP […]

May 29

SPARK! is all things RJ. Read the new mission statement and it pretty much sums up what we will be working every day toward.
About SPARKSPARK’s Mission: SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW! fosters a dynamic, collaborative model of leadership, collective action and discourse for reproductive justice throughout Georgia and the South. SPARK collaborates with communities […]

May 29

Ton Ziljstra writes a recent post on addressed the “outage problems” for me in an effective description here. In a nutshell he sums it up as a content management system being used as a messaging system. I actually want it to be both. It must have the robustness of the CMS and the speed […]