Thursday, January 24, 2008

By the Shadow of our Hand

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A chilling but essential read for all who harbour Pollyanna thoughts about the Long War. Belmont Club has always turned out excellent anal...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Some GDP perspective

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I've always been a sucker for maps, and this one (ht: Gods of Copybook Headings) is a bewdy. Yup, we're about the size of the US ...
Friday, January 18, 2008

The VooDoo Bucket - Level 3 assets under FAS-157

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It all sounds very technical, but it is quite important. Find out (if you're a shareholder in a bank, financial instituion or even a pen...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

That good old stuff

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Stewart Brand should need no introduction: Whole Earth Catalog, and a personal favourite: How Buildings Learn . Edge mag invited a whole b...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Do not go Gently into that Zero-Sum Night

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Something I'd read ages ago, updated here by the always-estimable Martin Wolf of the FT, and commented by Naked Capitalism . If there i...
Monday, December 17, 2007

The Food Channel strikes again

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This little anecdote has to be one of this season's LOL hits.... How's about: a huhu grub inside a rifleman inside a tui inside a p...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Woo-Hoo. No Really. Solar panels at $USD0.30/watt

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This is just the best news. Big award, for a deserving company. With current solar at around$USD3-5/watt, buying say 2 or 3 kw of panels i...
Monday, October 01, 2007

Abiotic Oil - Gaia's fruit after all?

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This is the latest (and, to my mind, clearest) statement about the origin of Oil - it ain't a 'fossil' fuel at all, according t...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Columbia to Ahmadinejad - you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator.

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At last, a univeristy type with a backbone. This is Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger's address to the hapless Iranian. Mr Presiden...

Drugs - to ban or not - Lee Harris expostulates

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This article is the best I have ever seen on the topic. It reviews Theodore Dalrymple's book ' Romancing Opiates: Pharmacologi...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Standard and Poor's Moment of Truth

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The headline really says it all, no? And, dear reader, it's not from a lone blooger in his attic. It's from Dow Jones. All of us ...
Thursday, July 05, 2007

Climate Change runs out of gas

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This piece of actual science shows the value of actually doing the sums. Essentially, there jest ain't enough recoverable hydrocarbons...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

The Key to All Mythologies

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This article (ht: Gods of the Copybook Headings ) sums up my own attitude to The Gerbil Worming debate. A teaser quote: "it speaks in...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

So That's the problem

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Here's a neat piss-take on the Scary (well, scarily bad) Science behind the Beeb's recent trip to the thinner atmospheres of unreas...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

Agriculture in NZ - the no-subsidies version

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This international article is a good summary of the last 20 years' experience of unsubsidised farming in our fair land. The Social Lab...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Housing Bubble

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A useful post here from another bubbular location: Southern California (SoCal, for short). What can happen there can happen here, too. Th...

Lileks Local News

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As anyone with a passing acquaintanceship with the blogosphere knows, James Lileks has been bumped off the Strib's columnist list, and...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Housing woes - oh, and they're in the UK

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Dear old William Rees-Mogg has a typically pithy article in the Times. Change the context to NZ, and his comments are still apropos. Espe...
Monday, April 23, 2007

We'll have to coin a new shorthand for this

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Darwin is hard at work again, here . Used to be 'Fish, Barrel, Shoot' as a shorthand for, well, shooting fish in a barrel. Taunting...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Solar independence

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Th is is good news. There are several companies very active in the CIGS field now ( Nanosolar , Miasole , Konarka , Heliovolt ) and there ...