SPIN is short for "Small Plot Intensive" Farming, a project that was started by Wally Satzewich and Gail Vandersteen. Their site can be found here . The purpose of the project is to maximize the use of backyard space in urban and suburban areas. I’d like to help them get a boost, mainly by encouraging people to link to their site and refer to them […]
This is an inspirational piece . I read it with glee. Before reading below, here’s a great example of what Ms. Huffington is talking about. Here are some of the details: Thanks to YouTube — and blogging and instant fact-checking and viral emails — it is getting harder and harder to get away with repeating brazen lies without paying a price, or to run under-the-radar […]
Despite the massive leads reported in favour of Barack Obama, a lot of stories are popping up concerning election fraud, voting issues and problems with electronic voting machines. This BBC story is one of the earlier ones that I’ve seen, but a search on US election fraud (especially with What Really Happened ) will reveal that the problems are ubiquitous and should be something to […]
In the US, TV broadcasters have officially filed their opposition to any plan to leverage available ‘white space’, or unused broadband wireless airwaves for public use. They argue that transmitting wireless broadband on white spaces could interfere with TV signals. Original story here. I’m not an expert in this field, but the claim that airwaves will interfere with broadcasters doesn’t make a lot of sense. […]
Research here. This is an interesting article, but covers the US only. Interesting why? Well, I suppose it’s because it offers up some hope for the world in that if we (being liberal democrats or activists) are actually more active than conservatives, we’ll eventually turn things around. The only challenge is fragmentation. In Canada, during the last election, the number of activist causes, groups, campaigns […]