Last month we announced that we reduced our carbon emissions by switching our electricity over to 90% wind power. Today, Ideum has taken the final steps and have become completely carbon neutral.
The process was relatively simple and inexpensive. As I mentioned in the last post, switching over to wind power for…
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Posted in | No Comments »Some conferences are just so delicious they make me drool. Take d.Construct 2006 coming up September 8th in Brighton. The speaker list includes:Jeffrey Veen (Design Manager at Google) I swear he gives me goosebumps with his amazingly visionary brain.
Jeremy Keith (ClearLeft, author DOM Scripting: Web Design with Javascript…
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Posted in , , | No Comments »It's all over the Internet. It's on David Letterman and the Today Show. It's on NPR, for Pete's sake. Across the country, people are caught up in a frenzy of extreme Diet Coke and Mentos experiments.Want to try it at home?
Get permission, go outside, and have a hose handy. Things are…
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Posted in | No Comments »Sure, the reasons are valid. Unhygenic, stinky and dirty. No argument with that.But we had so much fun there.
I remember walking home from Montfort Primary and just mucking around the playgrounds with my friends.
It was amazing how many ways of going down the slides we could come up…
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Posted in | No Comments »A lot of people ask me to display a particular item. In fact, if I had a dollar for every board member, volunteer, or deeply invested museum patron who asked me to put a particularly favorite artifact on display, I could retire from this field. Seriously. Well, slightly serious. I could at least buy a […]
Posted in | No Comments »]]>Taking a page out of a famous musician’s book, Celtica gigantea is “the Grass Formerly Known as Stipa gigantea”. The scientific name for golden oats changed with the publication of this paper: Vázquez, FM and M Barkworth. 2004. Resurrection and emendation of Macrochloa (Gramineae: Stipeae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.…
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Posted in | No Comments »UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland told the Security Council today what is painfully obvious but too seldom uttered, especially by UN officials: the Security Council barks a lot but it rarely bites. According to Reuters, Egeland chided the Security Council on Wednesday for being too timid in using sanctions and…
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