January 2008
River Basin: Management A Negotiated Approach -... →
Haven’t looked through it yet, it’s huge! Good sample of what Gomukh has been working on.
Ramon Dekkers - Photographer →
Dutch photographer with images from India and more. Friend of Dr. Bill Ryan
Rough justice in Lebanon →
Bombs in Beirut and political deadlock
Lebanon’s latest car bomb assassination appears to be closely tied to the first major such operation in the current series, the killing of Rafiq al-Hariri, the country’s pre-eminent post-civil war statesman, in February 2005. The bomb that exploded in the Hazmieh district of Beirut on January 25 killed Captain Wissam Eid (and at least three other...
going on leave of twitter for the next three months. see y’all in may!
Repeal Denied →
When will Moore’s Law be repealed? For the 30+ years I have been in and around the computer industry I have heard that question asked. The reason is obvious: this seemingly magical doubling of computing power per dollar every 18 months has been taking place since the early 1960s and surely has to stop sometime, right? Not yet, it doesn’t. Thanks to some clever new ways of making CMOS...
twitter suddenly decided to stop sending me SMSes and start emailing tweets. hm.
maybe i should give some thought to my del.icio.us tagging taxonomy…
Peer Water Exchange →
International network started by the Blue Planet Run foundation trying to connect people working on clean water projects with one another. Also trying to implement accountability with water projects
Whitman Direct Action →
Whitman College-based student organization “dedicated to helping marginalised people by promoting economically and environmentally sustainable community development”
Cover Africa →
A Cornell-based student organization trying to introduce as many mosquito nets as possible.
I have a sinking feeling today is one of those “forget everything you need” days
On a resume, how do you make bullet points sexier than they really are? Possible?
AT&T recorded voice sounds so spunky
I am becoming *the* authority on punching out emails
Developing Drinking Water Sources in Rural India -... →
Article about a project similar to the Sadhana Clean Water Project. Contacting the professor in charge would be a smart idea!
My dad is going up to the question mic. Uh oh
“We are looking for a way to stop the repetitive cycle of poverty”
97% of the Grameen Bank’s borrowers are women
“We looked at the conventional bank, and saw that it was owned by the rich people. So, we thought it might be fun to have a bank owned b …
Three rules for ending poverty: empower women, poor are best agents of their own development, and we must all play our part
“How do you introduce someone like Dr. Yunus, who has fathered a movement that has touched 100 million people?”
Rob Dyer of Mercy Corps introduces Muhammed Yunus
At the Muhammed Yunus presentation at the Bagdad in PDX. Debating whether to live tweed it or not
Making Google Reader More Like Gmail →
Google Reader could add a lot of features from Gmail that would improve the way it organizes information. A filtering mechanism would allow you to automatically star, share, email, label or mark as read the posts that match a certain pattern. For example, you could receive an email for each post that contains GDrive in the title or automatically label as Apple all the post that contain one of the...
Overhead at a coffee shop, “what happens when you google Google?”
The Changing World - PRI and the BBC →
Series of audio documentaries about topics relevant to the state of world affairs today.
What Exactly Does Google Want From The 700 MHz... →
Everyone has their eyes on the upcoming Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 700 MHz wireless auction, and not just the folks in the tech world, but also stock brokers and wealth managers. At the close of business on Friday, Google stock closed at $600.25 a share (down to $598.30 in after hours trading), so people who have the company’s shares in their portfolio are of course concerned...
new internets connection installed yesterday. jiminy christmas it’s speedy!
@jwoody: cut me some slack… it’s timeless news!
the yearly carbon footprint for the datacenter industry is as much as the entire airline industry. whoa baba
Self-Assembling Bionic Eyes Coming Soon →
Any self-respecting child of the late 20th century would jump at the chance to overlay an electronic stream of information on their field of vision — but when the idea’s gone from science fiction to science, it’s usually been more A/V club than Snow Crash. All that could change: witness a contact lens designed by electrical engineers from the University of Washington and...
ok. GeoPress is definitely the coolest WP Plugin I’ve come across in a long time
installing GeoPress in ze blog. looks supra chouette
completely swamp-ed with email
now i understand how jaiku is different from twitter and why google bought it http://tinyurl.com/39yz9b
Toastmasters International →
Organization that is dedicated to creating better leaders and speakers. Harbans Lal is involved with the one in Tualatin.
what’s the best way to geo-tag wordpress posts?
i’m a finalist! http://tinyurl.com/2hpsgr
Pardon my shouting but SCRATCH ON THE IPHONE GLASS?! How is that even possible?
it’s cool to be able to figure out what CMS a website is using based on their URIs, queries and fragments
Really, really procrastinating hardcore on internship essays. Stonesthrow podcast is good for such efforts
The Cornell Daily Sun →
Daily student paper from Cornell University. CMS is running Drupal.
popuri.us - Site rankings →
A tool to quickly determine your Google PageRank, Alexsa, del.icio.us, etc.
Daniel Bachhuber →
My personal web hub!
scouring teh internets for internship opportunities
Coho Photography →
Ben’s new domain and website