Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2008
Starting tomorrow, January 1, 2009, Washington state residents will be able to recycle computers, monitors and TVs at no cost, thanks to the e-waste producer responsibility laws we passed in 2006.You can find collection sites here, or read more about the program here.This is a big step forward for responsible recycling in Washington!
Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2008
Looking the World in the Eye in-depth piece on samuel huntington, controversial but insightful political scientist. [...]
Posted in General on Dec 23rd, 2008
The good folks at Idealware have added another nice article to their “A Few Good Tools…” series, this one titled “A Few Good Email List Discussion Tools.” While the article provides a pretty good overview of the space, it leaves out a few supporting details that I think are worth noting: Idealware’s article [...]
Posted in General on Dec 21st, 2008
Issuu – You Publish Their new "Smart Look" feature would make a great Plone plugin [...]
Posted in General on Dec 19th, 2008
Not so dead on arrival The unlikely success of the Clinton Roadless Rule [...]
Posted in General on Dec 16th, 2008
Strengthening Your Online Presence: Now is the Time | Convio good case for investing in online relationship building [...]
Posted in General on Dec 13th, 2008
The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be I'm amazed this hasn't gotten more attention from enviros (and others) [...]
Posted in General on Dec 12th, 2008
Note: this is absolutely, positively not recommended for production. I had heard that it was possible to install and run Plone trunk under Python 2.6, and that it would use substantially less memory (mostly thanks to Python 2.6 improvements). It took a bunch of fiddling and some help from David Glick, but here’s how I did [...]
Posted in General on Dec 10th, 2008
/Products.EditableComments – Plone collective – Trac looks useful (tags: [...]
Posted in General on Dec 8th, 2008
Michael is once again spot-on, although he buries his lede a bit: If I were to write a description of an online seminar for nonprofits that captures what I see going on, it would probably be something like this: Title: Don’t Fall Behind in Raising Money: 27 Free Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Online Fundraising This description might [...]
Posted in General on Dec 8th, 2008
compfight + a flickr™ search tool helps find CC licensed images on Flickr, since Flickr's built-in search is annoying [...]
Posted in General on Dec 5th, 2008
Markers fusion plugin for Google Maps webservice-based clustering for Google Maps [...]
Posted in General on Dec 3rd, 2008
European Green Party – The Charter of the European Greens one definition of social justice [...]
Posted in General on Dec 1st, 2008
When I saw this episode of XKCD, I just had to remix it to give it a more personally-relevant context. Enjoy.
Posted in General on Dec 1st, 2008
Groklaw – An Amicus Brief: Issues in the Cyberbullying Case That Affect You – Updated disturbing: appears to imply that violating a website's terms [...]