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Revolutionary farming
Franz Schreier is aiming to change the world. Nothing less. He visited Portland Purple Water tonight and gave a talk on par with the best TED talks. His basic premise is that much of the world’s food production depends heavily … Continue reading
An example of how Verizon’s Portland FIOS sale could go bad
Three months ago I wrote about my worries regarding the sale of Verizon’s FIOS customers in the Portland area to Frontier Communications. Yesterday’s news brought a great example of what some smaller companies will do to get an opportunity to … Continue reading
Fowler MS makes the front page of The Oregonian today
Following up on the protest at Fowler last week, The Oregonian has a front page article today describing one of the teachers being laid off from Fowler. Both Mr. Rice and his wife are educators and represent a large part … Continue reading
Fowler Middle School students protest teacher cuts
School’s out for the day and I’ve just heard that today a bunch of students at our local middle school staged a walk-out over education funding cuts. Good for them! These kids need to do more…organize demonstrations, contact their state … Continue reading
Customer service still exists! Or US Divers / Aqualung rock
I got some snorkel gear last month at Costco. I didn’t necessarily expect much..thought “cheap costco gear”, though they weren’t exactly inexpensive and as I used them I did actually think to myself, “wow this is actually really nice gear.” … Continue reading
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Solar panels coming
After coaching a First Lego League team last year and attending a solar power expo or two I’ve had my curiosity about solar electric piqued. As of today I’ve actually signed a contract with Gen-Con, Inc. and expect to have … Continue reading
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Subscribe to the Peer to Patent RSS Feed
It’s been on the back of my mind for ages to check if the Peer to Patent project has an RSS feed for new patents added to the system. Today I actually noticed I’d written it on a TODO list … Continue reading
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William Gibson on Marketplace
…or mention of his Pattern Recognition anyway, today in the form of a recommended summer/beach reading. Especially after going to OSCON last week and seeing that practically everybody is using MacBook’s these days and also at the same time hearing … Continue reading
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Guerrilla gardening
Boingboing’s linked an LATimes article on the subject of Guerrilla Gardening. Individual property rights are always bumping up against the good of the collective society. There usually aren’t many people standing up for the latter and those that do aren’t … Continue reading
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Verizon may have some intelligence after all
Last I knew Verizon was still a fan of a tiered-internet. On the other hand they’re now saying at least when it comes to blocking copyrighted materials they wont tier things. Their VP of PR specifically has said, “We generally … Continue reading
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