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By Dave, July 30, 2005 9:38 am

3d model of the dymaxion car

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I’m thinking engine, tranny and drive/steering cradle out from under a front wheel drive vehicle for dual front drive/steering and single drag steering wheel in rear. Hummm. I even have that Mitsubishi that got totaled which engine and drive is in in good condition that I need to do something with. Along with a need to get out and do something. But that will probably not be building one of these… 😉

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By Dave, July 28, 2005 8:17 pm

Organic farming success
Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds

“Organic farming approaches for these crops not only use an average of 30 percent less fossil energy but also conserve more water in the soil, induce less erosion, maintain soil quality and conserve more biological resources than conventional farming does,”

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30% less energy is a huge saving when profits on farms today are pennies on the dollar.

Bet this study didn’t come from a government agency. Not a lot of profit in organic supplies. 😉

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By Dave, July 28, 2005 8:12 pm

Israeli Research: Cell Phone Radiation May Cause Visual Damage

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I’ll be using my ear set more often now. Wonder what the safe distance is?

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By Dave, July 28, 2005 6:30 pm

New Scientist Breaking News – Planting trees may create deserts
The report summarises studies commissioned over the past four years by the Forestry Research Programme, funded by the UK government’s Department for International Development.

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I have my doubts about the accuracy of this report. It sounds more like something the US gov would be spewing out.

Update:

I just reread this piece and I’d have to see the entire study. There at the end the one guy says that cutting all the trees only causes a little decrease in rain fall. But what about the air temperature of the area. Does it go up or down when the trees are cut? What about the temp of the ground. Again, up or down? Birds, animals? Insects, and lower life forms? What does it do to the wind patterns. And what does it do to erosion patterns in an area when clear cutting is involved. There are so many variables that while they may be honest in reaching their conclusions I suspect that they chosen their figures to make this piece of toilet paper sound the way the powers that be want it to sound.

Or I could just be in a foul mood… But I have lived with the effects of clear cutting an area and the decrease in water and increase in erosion…

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 4:44 pm

Boing Boing: RIAA: We didn’t take down RPGFilms.net

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So they didn’t take the site down but they don’t know ANYTHING else.

Wonder if this is another case of white granny downloading hip-hop without a computer? or if they are all really as stupid and unimformed as the Q and A makes them (her) sound?

Guess that’s just a rhetorical question. After all the article is talking about the RIAA. That’s the folks that take all the money for the musicians work and spend it suing the bands fans, isn’t it?

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 4:25 pm

Another perpetual motor built in Russia – PRAVDA.Ru

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And pigs will fly out of my nose…

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 12:47 pm

New Scientist Breaking News –
Mysterious disease outbreak in China baffles WHO

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At least they know what it is now. The spread would be a lot worse if it were able to spread between humans.

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 12:44 pm

New Scientist Breaking News – New animal species evolved in an instant

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Interesting read. And makes a lot of sense.

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 10:07 am

freshmeat.net: Project details for NoMachine NX

NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server system
based on the X11 protocol. In addition, NX also
translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal
Server and VNC protocols into X/NX. NX is an order
of magnitude faster than VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth
as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. By embedding RDP and
RFB, it enables users to compress and accelerate
remote Windows and VNC sessions. NX lets you work
fluently even across slow links like modems. The
NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11
proxying agents implementing efficient compression
and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio over the
Internet.

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Went to the site and looked around a bit and it sure looks interesting. The works over even slow links like modems is gonna make a lot of new apps available that depend on close machine/desktop interaction that haven’t been possible before now. The times I have had to use pcanywhere over a modem it’s been almost painfully slow. Haven’t tried it over a fast link so no idea but I suspect it takes a lot more pipeline resources than this does.

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 9:50 am

Treehugger: Organic Farming More Than Competitive
What some of us already knew is being confirmed by a Cornell University study: “Organic farming produces the same yields of corn and soybeans as does conventional farming, but uses 30 percent less energy, less water and no pesticides, a review of a 22-year farming trial study concludes.” Of course, the people who make fortunes selling fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides, GMO crops, etc, don’t want people to know that.

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It’s the little things that make the difference but tech makes the news and news sells product. I’ll take the odor of cow shit over chemical fertilizer any day.

We just got to get small. Big just don’t always (any time?) work!

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 9:43 am

Canal could cause earthquakes, Egypt warns | The Register

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Little things overlooked (or ignored) in these massive projects can lead to interesting side effects.

Of course, so do tsunamis…

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 9:39 am

First the terrorists, now the GOP. Why IT is against me | The Register

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Humor? I’m not so sure…

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 1:30 am

U.S. and Australia OK secret climate pact
The secret pact was designed to reduce greenhouse emissions, but not harm development or economic growth.

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This sounds way too much like the double secret suspension in “Animal House”. What a bunch of horse hockey, or it would be if it wasn’t our elected leaders (?) pulling this shit… 🙁

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 1:28 am

New Scientist Breaking News – Claims of GM-field ‘superweed’ are dismissed

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So who’s lying? Who’s covering up? And who’s just in it for a story? I don’t think they know enough to be making blanket statements on what can and what can’t be passed on and what is sterile and what isn’t quite yet.

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By Dave, July 26, 2005 9:49 pm

Everybody loves Eric Raymond » Sell out

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This comic is hilarious! I don’t think they can keep it up but hope I’m wrong.

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By Dave, July 26, 2005 9:43 pm

Boing Boing: Shoot someone? Not Smith & Wesson’s fault. Copy a movie? Grokster’s fault

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Does anyone else see a slight problem here?

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 8:21 pm

GM crop creates a ‘superweed’

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But that can’t happen! Looks like it can too. Now how much of the other stuff out there is gonna crossbred and spread?

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 8:18 pm

Ocean spray lubricates hurricane winds

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So if we can figure a way to dry those nasty ole hurricanes out, the winds wouldn’t be so bad? 😉

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 7:21 pm

BuildItSolar: Solar energy projects for Do It Yourselfers to save money
and reduce pollution

Just found this site. Looks interesting to say the least!

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 7:19 pm

Treehugger: Man Retrofits Freezer to Make an Ultra-Efficient Fridge

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Makes lots of sense to me. Harder to get to stuff but with racks and such shouldn’t be that big a deal.