Monthly Archives: April 2006

Ten Things to Do When You’re Blue

Posted on April 9, 2006 by Dave Pollard

There’s plenty of reasons these days to be depressed or discouraged, and it’s always tempting when you feel down to seek solace in things that are addictive or self-destructive (you know what I’m talking about). Here are ten better things … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 11 Comments

Links for the Week – Apr.8/06

Posted on April 8, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Line drawing on the 1978 Poco album Legend, drawing by Hugh Macleod in last week’s post Blue Pen, New Yorker cartoon by Alex Gregory (I’m wearing a sweatshirt with his famous blogging dog cartoon as I write this), logos for … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works | 2 Comments

Spring Visitors

Posted on April 7, 2006 by Dave Pollard

It’s been busy around the bird feeders lately. A couple of weeks ago, at midnight, we had these visitors, very charming, but very destructive: They pulled the feeder down, dismantled the pole, smashed the feeder, and absconded with the foot-wide … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Works | 8 Comments

When is the Right Time to Start a Business?

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Poor Caterina Fake unleashed quite a firestorm by proclaiming, somewhat flippantly, that this was not a good time to start a business — though she later qualified it to starting “consumer-facing Web 2.0 companies in [Northern California]”. One of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 6 Comments

The Weather Makers

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Earth’s thermal regulation balance: 492 W/m2 coming in, 492 W/m2 going out, when we don’t mess with it. Diagram from this excellent 1996 paper by U. Wash. Prof. Dennis Hartmann. Regular readers of HtStW know that I see the consequences … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 5 Comments

Innovating Tourism, for Fun, Savings and the Good of the Planet

Posted on April 4, 2006 by Dave Pollard

A while ago I saw a travelogue on bicycle tourism in the Alps. The tourist authorities realized the rigours of regular bicycling wasn’t for everyone, so they introduced some innovations: Elevators inside the mountains for the major uphill sections, so … Continue reading →

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puddles at sunset

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Dave Pollard

rain mud rubber boots: tracing with your finger the orange line around the boots’ rim = splash = without getting your pants wet asking “why do dead animals smell so bad but dead plants and earth smell so good?” overhearing … Continue reading →

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Living On The Edge

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about edges. The World of Ends, both in technology and in business, the marginalization of the poor and disenfranchised, the fact that most innovation starts at the edges. Five years ago when we were … Continue reading →

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Links for the Week – Apr 1/06

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Politics, Economics and SocietyOutsourcing Child Abuse: Katharine Weber in the NYT reviews the long history of children, working brutal hours in factories in inhumane and unsafe working conditions, who have died in avoidable factory fires. She ends with a plea … Continue reading →

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