Global Spin

We should all go to Kernie’s Family Park in Germany, mostly because it’s built on the site of an abandoned (never used) nuclear power station. Where else can you free-climb a cooling tower? The site is in German and Dutch only. Sorry. An actual quote: Hey Kids, eine echt unglaubliche Geschichte!

Posted by Deana in Fun on April 19th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Well, it’s Friday, April 22nd that is the official Earth Day, but I figure it’s good to celebrate the whole week. So here are some friendly tips on better environmental living. I still have trouble with #22, though. I suck at getting it right the first time . . .

Posted by Deb in Environment on April 18th, 2005 | Comments Off

The blogosphere is (justifiably) all a-twitter because Ross Mayfield was told that “air passengers are only allowed a maximum of two books on flights”:http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/books_banned_on.html starting April 14. The problem isn’t a matter of 2 (or 4) books, of course. That’s just one silly example. The real issue is this note on the “Transportation Security Administration”:http://www.tsa.gov/public/interapp/editorial/editorial_1012.xml [...]

Posted by Chris in Government on April 18th, 2005 | 4 Comments »

On April 1st, Scientific American published an apology for their one-sidedness in the presentation of so-called ‘scientific’ ideas. I finally found the text. Go, you snarky scientists!

Posted by Deana in April Foolishness on April 16th, 2005 | Comments Off

WorldChanging has a good overview of the “arguments for and against nuclear power”:http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002147.html as a solution to the current (and near future) oil/global warming/environment crisis. My personal view is that nuclear power can be useful in a few isolated cases, but improving efficiency and developing distributed alternative energy (solar, wind, geothermal) is a better use [...]

Posted by Chris in Environment on April 14th, 2005 | Comments Off