High-tech Politics: Obama ‘Internet kill switch’ plan approved by US Senate panel Happy Independence Day Weekend… Songs for the Fourth of July Parade of Bears Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));
Politics: President Obama: iPod, iPad don’t empower Human Power News: Jessica Watson, the Youngest Round-the-World Sailor More Anti-Facebook Opinion: Zuckerberg Overplays His Hand A Hi-Tech Problem: Drifting satellite threatens US cable programming …with a Low-Tech Solution: Watch TV for Free Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = [...]
TrAIL Despite strong opposition from a variety of sources (the Piedmont Environmental Council, actor Robert Duvall, and Congressman Frank Wolf), the TrAIL powerline is currently under construction. The line was allowed to use federal eminent domain authority to bypass local and state oversight. The line is paralleling an existing 500kV line through Virginia. I observed [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Train Tuesdays Vice President of the United States VP Biden wrote an editorial entitled Why America Needs Trains: In 1830, the first steam-engine locomotive, the Tom Thumb, graced America’s railways. Its first run was a rickety 13-mile trek from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills, Md., but it became much more than that. It marked the beginning [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Politico reports on Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY): …a flight attendant then approached Schumer and told him the entire plane was waiting on him to shut down his phone. Schumer asked if he could finish his conversation. When the flight attendant said “no,” Schumer ended his call but continued to argue his case. He said he [...]