In an attempt to better inform the public Dutch police have started taping and putting online video’s of busts and other police actions. It’s like the series only without the cheesy music: Nationale Recherche ontdekt grote wapenvoorraad in Amsterdam
Gizmodo have took it upon themselves to start a boycot of RIAA music: Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Boycott the RIAA in March - Gizmodo. Although the effect is questionable the intention is a good one. Beyond just stopping to buy RIAA albums there is something else you could do though; help make RIAA free music easier to find. The RIAA radar is doing a great job at building a database of RIAA free music. Why not use that database and tag all music on Last.fm that is RIAA free with the appropriate tag (i.e. riaafree). If enough people help in this effort we’ll soon have a nice and clean Last.fm radio channel for everyone to check out. At first you will be the only one who can see the riaafree tagged music but after enough people tag artists with this tag everybody will be able to easily enjoy it.
(via Boris)
I never really understood why people believed in Bio fuels like ethanol so much. The current wall street hype is understandable but the the european mandate to have 5,75% of all fuel be bio fuel? Where is it going to be harvested from? To have enough biofuel to make all of the united states de able to drive on it you would have to fill the entire US with corn fields. About twice. Furthermore, as it now turns out, prices for food are rising across the board due to the risen demand for the stuff. Beer, meat, milk, most food stuffs have the same basic resource needs as ethanol.
So i guess the question becomes; drive or eat?
This about as silly an eco solution as they get in my humble view. Hybrid cars are a good solution, charge them with electricity gained from solar power and you halve your fuel use and your co2 fumes. That at least makes sense. Am i missing some material information to get this whole biofuel hype?
update:
this seems to partly solve the problem; using grasses and wood pulp instead of grain. cheaper and 50% more effective.
Douglas Crockford will be hosting The Browser Wars next wednesday. Should be rather interesting, not that i will be anywhere near the US next wedensday though.
For some reason the Safari team declined to come, which is a bloody shame really. I still think Safari is the best, and certainly the fastest, browser on a Mac if it weren’t for extensions.
Interesting exposition at TAG about interface design.
<>TAG is organising a symposium on Info Aesthetics. In this light, a number of speakers will offer different and surprising angles to the subject, delving into the depths of data storage, exchange and representation.
At <>TAG, LUST presents a decade of design in an interactive visual catalogue that explores new ways of archiving. The exhibition is not primarily aimed at summing up, it strives to highlight the actual process of design in which failure and success exist side by side. It addresses the issue of data storage, access, exchange and modification that has become increasingly relevant in the digital age.
It’s too bad our web 2.0 borrel is at the same night, but i’ll try and catch a glimpse later.