Writing v. Typing
In commenting on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Truman Capote is said to have offered, “That’s not writing. That’s typing.” Perhaps that’s my problem, Christian. I just type real fast. Keep scrolling. Nothing else to see here.
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John Malkovich and the Garden Gnomes
So it’s been suggested that I don’t write enough about gnomes or something, but that’s weird, because sometimes they’re all I think about, and it’s all I can do to not write about them. I’m sort of embarassed to admit it, but sometimes I’ll lie in bed at night, in the dark, and imagine my …
Think Globally, Trade Emissions Locally
A British research group is suggesting a sort of localized version of Kyoto-style emissions trading, according to the BBC: Every man and woman in the country could be issued with a fixed number of permits to pollute the atmosphere under an idea from government-sponsored researchers. It’s been proposed by academics at the Tyndall Centre – …
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Laughing Lizard
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Playing Tourist
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A Shiny New Hockey Stick
There’s a new set of long-term climate change data out, this one for Europe over the last 500 years, and once again it’s shaped like a hockey stick:
Nyet on Kyoto?
A new UN report may signal the death knell for the Kyoto treaty by giving Russian treaty opponents the ammunition they’ve been looking for, according to a piece today by Paul Webster in Science (subscription required). The problem, according to Webster, is that previous UN calculations that seemed to show the Russians would have carbon …
The Market Notices
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Zimmer on the Dawn of Medicine
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Bugfix
I love it when my bugs are fixed.