Wednesday, July 05, 2006





















Thanks to Doc Searls, I now know where the Floyds were in 1881 http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Map.aspx?name=FLOYD&year=1881&altyear=1998&country=GB&type=name

Here's the link to conduct your own search.
Egad! Will wonders never cease! The Washington Post prints an editorial that--gasp--correctly states that "The inconvenient truth is that if we don't solve the engineering problem, we're helpless." Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth

Gaia lovers will find it inconvenient indeed to continue to deny that the world's population is going to increase regardless of the increasingly shrill, dire warnings they issue. Politics have no place in this discussion. Instead, sober planning to provide for quality of life for that future population as well as responsible husbandry of resources are the paths to accommodate the inevitable without devolving to war over resources.