August 2008
17 posts
If the lack of posts weren’t enough of a giveaway - I’m finally back in school. Along with the typical computer engineering classes I’m taking “Introduction to Sustainability” as an elective, which flows nicely with my internship for the campus Sustainability Initiative. Overall it should be an interesting and productive semester - and best of all I get to go to my...
Untethered Aesthetics →
I started Progressology as a way for me to voice my opinion on what I consider to be important issues, and soon enough I noticed that most of my posts fit into three, often intertwined, topics — sustainability, progressive politics and technology.
After some time I wanted an outlet for the distractions in my life — untethered from the topics of progressology and wholly focused on...
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“I think the black people would say he [Obama] don’t talk, act or carry himself...”
– “Country Singer” Toby Keith on the Glenn Beck show. (via election08)
I wonder how a black man should carry himself in Toby Keith’s eyes — or for that matter what kind of white guy Obama has been acting like, because I think there is a pretty big difference between Toby Keith and myself...
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“Private contractors operating in Iraq are not subject to U.S. military...”
– Are Contractors Above the Law? (via azspot)
They are until they need to be — When a division of Blackwater Worldwide was sued for the wrongful death of three soldiers killed in a plane crash in Afghanistan Blackwater requested Shari’a law to avoid paying lawsuit damages. (via BoingBoing)
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“The point is not that money is evil. Or that rich people should be silenced or...”
– Lawrence Lessig (via azspot)
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Sketching in Hardware 2008 →
The conference is over, but there should be more documentation of what happened online soon — for now you check out Tod E. Kurt’s talk and other presentations already online.
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“My interest is in making sure we’ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy...”
– Obama Opens the Door to Offshore Drilling. Looks like the Republicans have bamboozled the public into thinking this is a long-term solution. (via election08)
I don’t think the issue here is how a drilling strategy can be carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage...
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Last Friday, police in Des Moines, Iowa arrested four people who attempted to make a citizens’ arrest of former top White House aide Karl Rove, who was in town to speak at a GOP fundraiser. (via Think Progress)
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Watch The Vote Solar Initiative is working to overcome regulatory roadblocks impeding solar’s market development, and aims use economies of scale necessary to bring down solar’s costs. They are working at the state level to implement the necessary policies to build robust solar markets — and pave the way for a transition to a renewable energy economy.