Posts From 2008

• Berlin, Cologne and Hannover have banned heavily polluting cars. (2nd January 2008)
• Good move: Berlin, Cologne and Hannover have banne... (2nd January 2008)
• Low-cost film solar panels are now a reality, brin... (3rd January 2008)
• After self-service bikes, self-service electric ca... (9th January 2008)
• Office building heated by commuters. (9th January 2008)
• The body heat from commuters passing through Stock... (9th January 2008)
• Opt out of receiving the Belgian paper phone books at home. (13th January 2008)
• A ship partly powered by a giant kite. (20th January 2008)
• The shipping industry is looking for new ways to r... (20th January 2008)
• “Driving is the cultural anomaly of our moment.”... (22nd January 2008)
• Belgium ranks near the bottom for environmental performance. (23rd January 2008)
• Belgium ranks near the bottom of the 28 European n... (23rd January 2008)
• Atheism news of the day: Myspace deletes atheist g... (1st February 2008)
• Great piece by Kevin Kelly on how money isn’t in t... (3rd February 2008)
• The life cycle of a blog post.... (3rd February 2008)
• Strangely addictive Japanese cartoon. (6th February 2008)
• Usavich is a strangely addictive Japanese cartoon ... (6th February 2008)
• Make espresso anywhere with the handpresso. Maybe ... (8th February 2008)
• Word of the day: sodcasting. The act of playing mu... (9th February 2008)
• Lucien De Roeck was responsible for a lot of well-... (12th February 2008)
• Use the fuse to switch off energy-wasting shop sig... (12th February 2008)
• Use the fuse. (12th February 2008)
• The meat trade is already a cruel one but I didn’t... (13th February 2008)
• “a litre bottle of Evian or Volvic generates up to... (17th February 2008)
• From whence it came. Taking the mystery out of mys... (17th February 2008)
• From whence it came. (17th February 2008)
• Five great auditory illusions... (22nd February 2008)
• Best and most succinct description of the universe... (23rd February 2008)
• I always try to take stairs instead of elevators a... (24th February 2008)
• Pretty strange seeing James Howard Kunstler’s pred... (24th February 2008)
• The story of the blues: Tracking the journey of th... (28th February 2008)
• “if it's clear that the risk is high, people will ... (8th March 2008)
• Do the test.... (12th March 2008)
• A light vessel is a ship which acts as a lighthous... (17th March 2008)
• Many people decorate the restroom in their home, s... (19th March 2008)
• A move I'd love to see implemented locally. (20th March 2008)
• There’s a move I’d love to see implemented locally... (20th March 2008)
• From the department of the obvious: 95% of youngst... (7th April 2008)
• BBC risks overloading the internet. (10th April 2008)
• BBC risks overloading the internet. Not a headline... (10th April 2008)
• I’m always trying to explain to people who think h... (13th April 2008)
• “It doesn't take a student of psychology to tell u... (13th April 2008)
• Very interesting article on the myths of organic farming. (1st May 2008)
• Very interesting article on the myths of organic f... (1st May 2008)
• Death of the SUV. (7th May 2008)
• Death of the SUV. No surprise there.... (7th May 2008)
• There’s a fly on my keyboard.... (13th May 2008)
• Get high in church.... (21st May 2008)
• Nothing new but an accurate snapshot of the oil si... (23rd May 2008)
• The latest rundown on peak oil. (12th June 2008)
• The latest rundown on peak oil from the Independen... (12th June 2008)
• “What we are seeing in this desperate horse-tradin... (16th June 2008)
• The web time forgot. How Paul Otlet, a Belgian, en... (17th June 2008)
• The web time forgot. (17th June 2008)
• Interesting fuel alternative in development: bugs ... (18th June 2008)
• How buying things ceased to be a chore and became a fun day out. (19th June 2008)
• How buying things ceased to be a chore and became ... (19th June 2008)
• Airports themselves have an environmental impact. (25th June 2008)
• Not something you usually think about. Airports th... (25th June 2008)
• The brain appears to make up its mind 10 seconds b... (29th June 2008)
• Email confusion.... (30th June 2008)
• Interesting approach to reducing the wasted energy... (30th June 2008)
• Reducing wasted energy from power supplies. (30th June 2008)
• This is surreal: a High Court judge has ruled that... (7th July 2008)
• Impressive real-time movement tracking of all ship... (9th July 2008)
• More evidence that we’ll only end up closing the b... (9th July 2008)
• Real-time movement tracking of all ships. (9th July 2008)
• I-Cycle, a series of short films about bike cultur... (10th July 2008)
• Habit-forming advertising technique for public health. (13th July 2008)
• How habit-forming advertising techniques are used ... (13th July 2008)
• Neil Patrick Harris is Dr Horrible and his sing-al... (16th July 2008)
• I thought I read this article in 1996.... (20th July 2008)
• Most of us don’t see ourselves in mirrors as we tr... (24th July 2008)
• If you want to do your bit for the environment, th... (25th July 2008)
• Reduce your meat intake for the environment. (25th July 2008)
• “You hold them down, I'll remove their wallets”... (25th July 2008)
• Spain implements heavy measures to reduce energy c... (1st August 2008)
• Spain implements heavy measures to reduce energy consumption. (1st August 2008)
• Impressive car park signage in Australia. (3rd August 2008)
• Impressive car park signage in Australia.... (3rd August 2008)
• The market is adapting: increasing oil prices are ... (3rd August 2008)
• A new BBC series overlays multiple types of data o... (4th August 2008)
• Patterns over satellite imagery. (4th August 2008)
• Doctor builds a custom dialysis machine. (6th August 2008)
• This is hacking at its best: doctor builds a custo... (6th August 2008)
• Want to know what kind of dirty investments your B... (6th August 2008)
• Another example of RFID passports being easy to co... (9th August 2008)
• “there is nothing unique about the frequency with ... (12th August 2008)
• There’s a whole subculture of people in the states... (12th August 2008)
• Travel on railcar inspection vehicles. (12th August 2008)
• Steve Jobs is not the Pope (31st August 2008)
• It’s not just the carbon, it’s the nitrogen too.... (4th September 2008)
• It's not just the carbon, it's the nitrogen too. (4th September 2008)
• The social function of NIMBYism. (5th September 2008)
• “Some scientists think climate change needs a more... (5th September 2008)
• The social function of NIMBYism.... (5th September 2008)
• The rise of ambient awareness.... (8th September 2008)
• Business pragmatism... (25th September 2008)
• Project Cybersyn (25th September 2008)
• Project Cybersyn, the forgotten story of Chile’s “... (25th September 2008)
• Paid for by the Someone better start pointing out ... (1st October 2008)
• Someone better start pointing out the obvious committee for a better planet. (1st October 2008)
• One of the clearer explanations I’ve read of how t... (3rd October 2008)
• Blinkenlights Stereoscope (5th October 2008)
• The blinkenlights crew have setup a new project in... (5th October 2008)
• British artist puts Royal Mail to the test. (9th October 2008)
• British artist puts Royal Mail to the test. Now th... (9th October 2008)
• Stanislav Petrov, the man who could have started a nuclear war. (25th October 2008)
• Stanislav Petrov, the man who could have started a... (25th October 2008)
• “The rapidly increasing sum of all computational d... (25th October 2008)
• Jason Scott on the blu-ray DRM mafia.... (26th October 2008)
• Gus Van Sant to make Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. (28th October 2008)
• I really enjoyed Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Aci... (28th October 2008)
• Supermarket fights EU to get ugly fruit and vegeta... (2nd November 2008)
• The End. How the era that defined Wall Street is f... (14th November 2008)
• “How clean does the pizza box have to be for it to... (16th November 2008)
• Garamond Powerline. Just what it says.... (21st November 2008)
• “the things that you use every day should be the b... (26th November 2008)
• The car horn is beeping useless. (27th November 2008)
• The car horn is beeping useless. Indeed, it’s gene... (27th November 2008)
• Patternicity: finding meaningful patterns in meani... (28th November 2008)
• The 10 big energy myths.... (2nd December 2008)
• “Countries with the highest levels of active trans... (16th December 2008)
• Madoff and the Global Economy... (18th December 2008)

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