The Science of Success and The Wisdom of Mobs

Interesting look at the notion of a scientific process to business success, as espoused by a popular book of the same name. It’s worth reading the review if you are interested, as I am right now, about how to better manage people, however there is a concluding paragraph that captured some wisdom we all need […]

Truthers

9/11 Truthers piss me off. Really.

Recently, Rosie O’Donnell, a co-host of ABC talk show The View, made comments on the show that renewed controversy over the collapse of World Trade Center 7.

These are the same people that criticize people who don’t hold their views for “ignoring the science” when they themselves do exactly the same […]

Why Can the Open Source Car Be Open AND Cool Too?

“The goal was to produce a simple, sturdy, easily-maintained, multi-functional, modular vehicle that was truly international.”

Apparently the other goal of the OScar project was also to create a car that makes you feel like a complete frickin dork.

Guess it was too much work to make it look like this?

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Pulling the All-Nighter

I love anonymous satire blogs written by people inside the bowls of the industries they reveal their frustrations about. In terms of pure comedy, it doesn’t get much better than the observations made on these pithy sites, but then you realize that the reason they are funny is because of the high degree of truth […]

Ecopods

Okay, this is getting a little out of hand… 3 clean tech posts on the very first day the category debuts! This one is pretty damn cool, even though I’m not exactly sure why.

EcoPods are environmentally friendly coffins made from recycled paper. Whether you’re worried about the state of the planet, [...]

Email This! Firefox Extension

Here’s a pretty handy Firefox Extension.

Email This! will send your recipient the link, title, & highlighted text of the page you are viewing using GMail, Yahoo, and Stand-Alone Mail Clients like Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Evolution and More.

addthisurl = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fjeffnolan.com%2Fwp%2F2007%2F03%2F29%2Femail-this-firefox-extension%2F’; addthistitle = ‘Email+This%21+Firefox+Extension’; addthis_pub = […]

CFL again - sigh.

It’s a two-fer tonight for the newly created "Clean Tech" category. This time we revisit the ban-light-bulbs movement that is still circulating in California and elseware.

It turns out that the free market (and Wal Mart’s ability to sell a lot of CFLs) really is capable of responding more effectively than government regulation.

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The Environmental Toll of the Prius

Unfortunately for them, their ultimate ‘green car’ is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America; it takes more combined energy per Prius to produce than a Hummer.

Here’s an interesting take on environmental toll of the Toyota Prius, which will no doubt spur a rather vitriolic comment thread. BTW, in honor of […]

Is Regulation of the Internet Explicitly a Federal Domain?

"Because material on a website may be viewed across the Internet, and thus in more than one state at a time, permitting the reach of any particular state’s definition of intellectual property to dictate the contours of this federal immunity would be contrary to Congress’s expressed goal of insulating the development […]

Google Notebook Out of Beta

Google Notebook has made it out of beta. I actually use this service probably at least once a day and really like it. I do wish there was an offline sync’ing capability because I would like to have access to this data when I’m not online, and sync’ed to my Blackberry as well.

Sounds like an […]