Yostivanich

“This is to energy and cli­mate what Freako­nom­ics is to eco­nom­ics: an acces­si­ble, meaty, by-the-numbers look at the physics and prac­ti­cal­i­ties of energy.” Cory Doc­torow, says it’s a good book, and that makes me impressed.

“Instead of defin­ing degrees by the courses taken or the cred­its earned, the three states will estab­lish what stu­dents must learn.” Cool idea.

“Some ascribe the dif­fer­ence to a con­flu­ence of health and beauty trends that have accel­er­ated over time. But most man­u­fac­tur­ers and lin­gerie shop own­ers say the phe­nom­e­non is due to the fact that more women are being fit­ted cor­rectly.” Bust sizes have increased or at least more bras in larger sizes are being bought.

“With every new post, update, tweet, upload, com­ment, like, and link, we share a lit­tle bit more about who we are and what we stand for. This works for and against us.”

“The French group is also plan­ning to sell its Wild Turkey bour­bon whisky brand to Italy’s Cam­pari for $575m. ” Wild Turkey is a really strong brand.

“Face­book has basi­cally launched a site-wide ban of Pirate Bay tor­rent URLs. Facebook’s cen­sor­ship poli­cies are not very con­sis­tent though. Mini­nova and iso­Hunt, two other large Bit­Tor­rent sites remain unaf­fected, even though iso­Hunt offers the exact same ‘Share on Face­book’ fea­ture as The Pirate Bay pre­vi­ously did.” I say that Face­book should let the tor­rent links be in Face­book, it’s not Facebook’s deci­sion what their users do with the information.

“US crew mem­bers have recap­tured their ship after it was hijacked by Somali pirates, but their cap­tain is still being held hostage by the attack­ers.” Well damn.

“For every­one else, it’s no. The pur­pose of the site is to tell a story or to gen­er­ate some sort of action. And if the user notices the site, not the story, you’ve lost.” Some­times you shouldn’t build a site too cut­ting edge.

“But can some­one please explain to me why 14% of peo­ple who do not believe in a god call them­selves Chris­t­ian? And some, Evan­gel­i­cal Protes­tant?! ” Huh?

“Caps-Lock is FULL OF AWESOME!!1!” Lol.

“Apple made head­lines Tues­day by turn­ing on tiered music pric­ing, with tracks at both $1.29 and 69¢ appear­ing, but the changes are industry-wide. Ama­zon, Lala, and Rhap­sody are all sell­ing tracks at these new prices (Wal-Mart is hold­ing the line at $1.24), which seem to be an effort to both cash in on pop­u­lar music and boost album sales.” Really time to to go back to buy­ing stuff on cd.

Looks like the Daily Show vis­ited Cern.

What does Google have lay­ing around for us to find out about.

“Or mak­ing out while play­ing Halo — which, if you haven’t tried it, is just tops.” Lol.