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Dr. Horrible is Fantastic!
Last day to download this from iTunes! They are pulling it asap to make way for the DVD and build anticipation. So go (now!) to their website: www.drhorrible.com and download the episodes from iTunes today. Joss Whedon (and apparently his whole musical family) is (are) geek gods! All hail Joss.
—MoGo
Efficiency is the way to go
Check out this article posted on Salon by Joseph Romm “Why we never need to build another polluting power plant”. It details how we could use efficiency to reduce our greenhouse gases without having to build more power plants.
A couple of highlights from the article:
- While a few states have energy-efficiency strategies, none matches what California has done. In the past three decades, electricity consumption per capita grew 60 percent in the rest of the nation, while it stayed flat in high-tech, fast-growing California.
- …In the 1990s, the Energy Department began forming partnerships with energy-intensive industries to develop clean technologies. We worked with scientists and engineers to identify areas of joint research into technologies that would simultaneously save energy, reduce pollution and increase productivity. The Bush administration slashed funding for this program by 50 percent — and keeps trying to shut it down entirely.
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
Open Source Science
Check out this great article from the New York Times by Cornelia Dean. I think this is a great idea. Scientific problem.. maybe more brains could help me figure out the answer… Cooperation at its finest.
I have a book somewhere about this general concept of cooperative problem solving. I will update when I find it.
—MoGo
Plug-In 2008
Check out what San Jose is hosting this week: Plug-In 2008, a convention about plug-in hybrid cars, which runs Monday through Thursday at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The event isn’t open to the public but does include a public session Tuesday night.
While I am totally excited SJ is hosting this I think it is stupid that this isn’t open for at least a full day to the public. There is tremendous support here in Silicon Valley for green energy and green cars and the public should be allowed to participate! Well, at least they are having a convention. I hope they figure stuff out soon!
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
P.S. I would like to be on the go in my very own plug-in hybrid so hurry up design folks!
More Furniture Links Added.
I have added more furniture design links. This one is one of my favorites. Humor and it is literally green. I wonder if it is comfortable. I would probably want the seat part to be deeper (i.e. farther away from the top).
An Earth Chair. This is a clever idea but it must be hard to mow! 
Plus other neat stuff. Check it out!
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
