Lynne Kiesling Very good. Lots of action, plot twists and resolutions. Does justice to the Arthurian and hero themes, without overdoing it (to my taste). Not perfect. But well worth the price of admission. I’m sure I’ll think of more later, but these are my initial thoughts. More below the cut, with spoilers …
Lynne Kiesling It’s 5 PM out here in Montana, where I am at the moment, and I’ve finished the first ten chapters. More after the fold, with oblique spoiler references, so don’t click through if you are concerned.
Lynne Kiesling This entry at Wired’s blog Autopia points out a new National Petroleum Council study that says that the U.S. will have to develop lots of alternate energy sources over the next 25 years, and that until we do so, expect gas prices to remain high.
Michael Giberson One of the difficulties that beset planned economies is that without good prices for retail goods, it becomes difficult to price capital goods well. Of course, without good prices for capital goods, it become hard to allocate capital goods to their best use, and resources become wasted. (I think we can credit Ludwig …
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Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting Technology Review interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, talking about about the new ideas and creativity that flourish when you just define the platform and let the participants create the content. A good complexity and emergent order read.
Lynne Kiesling Sometimes the old ideas become new again … such is the case with chill storage or ice storage. Say you have a big high-rise building with air conditioning installed. In peak hours on hot days, your air conditioning use puts a lot of strain on the network, threatening a blackout. So if you …
Michael Giberson A surge in the demand for ethanol — touted as a greener alternative to gasoline — could have a serious environmental downside for the Chesapeake Bay, because more farmers growing corn could mean more pollution washing off farm fields, a new study warned yesterday. A Washington Post story on the study paints a …
Michael Giberson Raymond J. Learsy, writing in the Huffington Post, is incredulous that “over a span of two weeks during the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Aspen Energy Conference” no one had the sense to bring up the one idea offering a solution to problems like our national security being at risk, our environment being …
Lynne Kiesling How many of you have done this? You’re puttering around on the Internet, and a shoe moment strikes: hey, wonder what Zappos has that might catch my interest. I’m in the market for, say, a pair of black ballet flats, but they can’t be too flat, and they have to have some insole …
Lynne Kiesling Back in 1790, the authors of the Constitution of the United States included copyright in the property rights protections provided in the Constitution: [The Congress shall have Power…] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings …
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