The Guardian News Blog has committed substantial resources to covering developments not only in Egypt, but in every country where popular sentiment for change has made itself known. Here’s one excerpt from the last hour or so (times are, we think, GMT): “We’ve been very clear from the beginning that we do not want to [...]
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is trying to stimulate the economy by eliminating corporate income taxes and regulations on businesses and cutting taxes on wealthy people (click here or here). These kinds of activities do stimulate GDP. Here’s how. Wealthy people, like Lindsay Lohan, Brittney Spears, Mel Gibson, and Charlie Sheen have people, including paparazzi and [...]
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Interviewed in prison, Bernie Madoff asserted that banks and hedge funds were “complicit” in his elaborate fraud. Diana Henriques, writing in the NY Times, 2/15/11, (here) said ”Madoff described as ‘willful blindness’ their failure to examine discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information,” Quoting Madoff, “They had to know. But the attitude was sort of, [...]
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Lee Valley is offering this Trunk Organizer/Storage Bin for only $13.50 (USD). My personal experience with Lee Valley has always been good. From Lee Valley’s description: This is a product anyone can use. We designed this soft-sided interpretation of the ubiquitous milk crate after finding similar products to be overpriced or poorly executed. This one [...]
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In Stucknation: 911 Off the Hook, WNYC’s Bob Hennelly outlines the current problems – basic problems – with the nation’s 911 emergency telephone reporting/dispatch systems in coping with the proliferation of mobile phones: Almost a decade after the attacks of September 11th the nation’s most essential emergency local lifeline — 911 — remains a local [...]
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This open-source tech, constructed with bicycle parts, is designed so that it can be constructed for under $100 USD. Link to Cory Doctorow’s piece, Wheelchair for the developing world: cheap, rugged and easy to maintain, on BoingBoing. The Core77 Article: Case Study: Leveraged Freedom Chair, by Amos Winter and Jake Child. The Freedom Chair’s [...]
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Architect Kate Orff: sees the oyster as an agent of urban change. Bundled into beds and sunk into city rivers, oysters slurp up pollution and make legendarily dirty waters clean — thus driving even more innovation in “oyster-tecture.” Orff shares her vision for an urban landscape that links nature and humanity for mutual benefit. Video [...]
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By AL BAKER on The CityRoom blog at NYTimes.com: The first known cases of cholera in New York since the outbreak of the disease in Haiti last year were confirmed on Saturday by city officials.A commercial laboratory notified health officials on Friday that three New Yorkers had developed diarrhea and dehydration, classic symptoms of the [...]
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As we consider the Centennial of President Reagan’s birth, it is important to note that while he cut taxes on some taxpayers, he raised taxes on other taxpayers. As the graph, presented by Barry Ritholtz at Business Insider, shows, the deficit shot up under President Reagan, as it did under Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, [...]
From reuseit.com, here are some Fast Facts on Plastic Bags: 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used every year, worldwide. About 1 million plastic bags are used every minute. A single plastic bag can take up to 1,000 years to degrade. More than 3.5 million tons of plastic bags, sacks and wraps were [...]
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Are there connections between burning fossil fuels and cyclones in Australia? We have burned so much coal, oil, and natural gas the last 150 years that the concentration of atmospheric Carbon Dioxide has increased by about 40% – from about 270 PPM to about 390 PPM, from about 2.5 trillion tons to 3.67 trillion tons. [...]
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At approximately 1600 EST (2100 UTC) a suspicious package was found near the baggage claim at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia, United States, leading to the closure of around half of the terminal. Police later determined that the package was harmless and reopened the affected areas of the airport. Parts of the airport had [...]
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Safety issues with New York’s most highly trained unit, the Emergency Services Unit, which has the NYPD’s heavy-weapons, hostage-rescue, and counter-sniper functions, among others. Of course, it’s also the most heavily armed, perhaps the only officers with regular access to long guns and automatic weapons. Thus, Gawker’s report, Elite NYPD Unit Having Gun Safety Issues, [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.