Friday, March 31, 2006
Drop Kittens, Not Bombs? Been there, done that...
Drop Kittens, Not Bombs? Been there, done that...
Cats Not Bombs, eh? Careful what you wish for...
"Probably the warning I heard most often in conversations about the Gates Foundation had to do with the law of unintended consequences.
“Grant-making on that scale is a very difficult art,” says Edward A. Ames at the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, who fears that the people in charge of the “huge new pools of money being turned to philanthropy” may not know enough about “the impact they can have on the fields that are the objects of their generosity.”...
The best story about unintended consequences comes from Gordon Conway at the Rockefeller Foundation, who worked as an entomologist in Borneo in the 1960’s. In an attempt to control malaria, the W.H.O. sprayed houses with DDT.
The campaign did kill mosquitoes and reduced the incidence of malaria, but it had side effects. House lizards ate the dead bugs, then cats ate the lizards and died from the accumulated insecticide. Without cats, the local rat population exploded—rats that could carry plague and typhus. Neighboring states donated cats to the affected upland regions.
For the remote interior, the W.H.O. and Singapore’s Royal Air Force devised a maneuver worthy of Disney called Operation Cat Drop: they packed cats into perforated containers and sent them plummeting into upland villages by parachute."
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real cat drop story
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Huge and Awesome Lego Aircraft Carrier
Huge and Awesome Lego Aircraft Carrier... this is WILD. Crazy, but wild.
Huge and Awesome Lego aircraft carrier
Saturday, March 18, 2006
CRIA's Own Study Counters P2P Claims
"CRIA's own research now concludes that P2P downloading constitutes less than one-third of the music on downloaders' computers, that P2P users frequently try music on P2P services before they buy, that the largest P2P downloader demographic is also the largest music buying demographic, and that reduced purchasing has little to do with the availability of music on P2P services."
Geist's website/
Geist's website/
Sunday, March 12, 2006
PowerBook for sale on eBay- this baby worked at CIPPIC!
well, the time has come to part with my 12 inch PowerBook, and what is served me well over the last several months. It is still practically brand-new, but it's back to the old G3 (Pismo!) and a Windows box...
If you're in the market for a shiny new Mac PowerBook, check it out.
Bye-Bye, PBG4... :-(
