Neoporcupine

Bunches of my posts and more, all collated here for your reading pleasure!

Sep
28th

Mon

Crossing environmental tipping points

Somewhat arbitrary, however these are overall quite an indictment of the human species unfettered growth about to bite itself very hard. We can see the indicators. We know we should operate better….

Sep
24th

Thu

Dust Storm in Brisbane:

23 September has a huge dust storm pour over parts of Eastern Australia.

Sep
1st

Tue

Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award

A few good books.

Aug
30th

Sun

Map showing surface area of Earth required to power the world

Doesn’t look that much. Of course it would be better to be more distributed. But then who would rip us off by overcharging for burning coal?

Snow Leopard, Message Filer, Mail ActOn

I just installed Snow Leopard and most things are working (except calendar sync unfortunately). My version 1.0 version of Mail ActOn was incompatible in Mail.app. I checked the Mail ActOn site and…

Procrastination cure: sometimes a big scary task isn’t.

Aug
29th

Sat

Recording Industry Helps Rapper/Single Mom Get A PhD, Though It Tried To Weasel Out

A female rapper, a university and using a music industry contract actually working in favour of the musician. I can’t tell you how good I feel about this story.

Aug
26th

Wed

RealClimate: Plimer’s homework assignment

Ian Plimer, climate denier, is full of rot. Here’s the evidence with actual cited science.

Aug
25th

Tue

Ferrari 430 Scuderia