Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Printing houses

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Now this is what 3D printing is really about : spraying construction material at 25dpi and making buildings (or parts thereof - it's li...
Friday, March 19, 2010

This Mess We're In (with apologies to Polly Jean)

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This (Gummint discovers that taxing property won't raise the dosh needed for tax cuts) all neatly illustrates the unfortunate corner tha...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

AGW as a belief system

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Comment over on WUWT thread about AGW and its current, shall we say, terminal thrashing about. The middle of the road stance is, surely, ad...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Accounting for Temperatures

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I’ve had a good deal of experience with accounting systems, and it has just struck me that the whole global temperature database should be c...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Harry Read Me - ClimateGate

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An entertaining read. Harry has grave qualms about the data, the methods, and his own abilities, all written up in the ReadMe text file in ...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Climategate - a few links

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The 'Hardly Screwed' epithet which envious types used to throw at the University of east Anglia's Climate Research Unit is spook...
Monday, June 08, 2009

VDH - the Reckoning

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Another classic article from the classicist and agricultural toiler, Victor Davis Hanson.
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Government Motors

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Hat tip to MaxedOutMama. Health warning: please DO NOT read this with a cup of hot liquid near your mouth or over the keyboard. You have...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Lights just went out in....

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This Spengler piece neatly sums up the feeling I've had all year: that parts of the world are simply going to 'go dark' - laps...
Monday, December 01, 2008

Power, power everywhere

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This little gem from the ever-watchful Torygraph, shows just how much power is literally under our noses. I've always known that, give...
Sunday, July 06, 2008

AGW as Mass Delusion

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Heh. Couldn't have put this better meself. There are two mass delusion abroad IMHO: AGW being one (natch) and the notion that financ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

More books

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Thanks to the wunners of globbelisation, I have three hot new books to devour. That's right: ordered 11 June on Amazon, delivered 25 J...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Tribalism and Treaty

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Bruce Sheppard, the quinessential provocateur, has wondered publicly about the relevance of Te Tiriti in 2008. I've added a little co...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Tibet - the ultimate theme park

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Spengler has, as always, a pithy comment - turn the whole show into a Theme Park. The money quote (soon, to be tariff-free, even, thanks t...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Heat pumps (Shock, Horror) use Electricity!

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This just has to be a No Shit, Sherlock moment for the hapless central planners of our funny little economy. For the otherwise unenlightene...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Earth Hour = Soft fascism

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Couldn't agree more with This (ht Tim Blair ). While I'm wholly in favour of reducing consumption (and am well ahead of the curve,...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Little Boxes

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The proposal to streamline the building industry consents etc process is gathering steam. Not PC has easily the best summary of my views -...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Bearing up

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Great thread here , where the comments throw up all the usual suspects. And the lead paragraph is just it: what Were they thinking? Scape...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Really Bad Rhymes

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I seem to have been infected by a Rhyming Bug, and to exorcise it, have commented all over a bunch of otherwise blameless victims. To hell ...

Another climactic known is revealed to be unknown

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This leetle bombshell affects, oh, around half the marine organisms in the world. In essence, by omitting the 'assumed in the current ...