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TMIO Oven - cooking over the Internet...? | Trendir - 0 views

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  • MIO oven is made by TMIO company in Cleveland, OH, and is available for around $2,500 for a single and around $4,000 for a double-wall version. TMIO
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The Climate Change Lobby - Articles - The 'Clean Coal' Lobbying Blitz - 0 views

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clean coal reality coalition

shared by Danielle Hawkins on 07 Dec 09 - Cached

  • Since December, the Reality Coalition, a group of environmental interests led by former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, has run television ads of its own and plastered billboards in the nation’s capital with the message: “In reality, there’s no such thing as clean coal.” The coalition also has Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen directing ads spoofing ACCCE as a pitchman peddling room-blackening air spray that “harnesses the awesome power of the word clean.”

    The latest ad from the Reality Coalition, an environmental group led by former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, was directed by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. David Hawkins, director of climate programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council, supports carbon capture research but says ACCCE’s approach won’t spur needed private investment. “They’re going to argue any climate program should be so slow-acting that essentially it doesn’t change business practices in the next 20 years or so, and that is simply incompatible with the needs of climate protection,” he says. “They have concluded it’s not politically viable to maintain a ‘just say no’ position, so now it’s ‘just say mañana.’”

    Brian Hardwick, a spokesman for the Reality Coalition, won’t say how much his group is spending on advertising, but says it aims to continue to counter coal’s messaging. “They’ve made a business decision, that it’s cheaper to spend $40 million on lobbying and advertising than hundreds of billions needed to make coal clean,” he says. “They’ve made a calculation that if they can stall, delay progress and mislead, they can avoid that investment.”

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Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The oral skills of memorization, recitation and rhetoric instilled in societies a reverence for the past, the ambiguous, the ornate and the subjective. Then, about 500 years ago, orality was overthrown by technology.
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      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      The use or oral communication is becoming outdated. Technology has provided so many new features to help people stay in contact with eachother. Using social networks allows people from all over the world to communicate and make new friends with the click of a button. For example, I'm able to communicate with my friend from Italy via facebook. Why would someone continue to use the way of oral communication when technology has made communicatiing so much easier?
  • A new distribution-and-display technology is nudging the book aside and catapulting images, and especially moving images, to the center of the culture. We are becoming people of the screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority
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      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      Being physically able to see sometthing is more appealing to people, than reading a book. We are more dependent on seeing things, such as texting someone, or watching a movie over reading a book. We are able to relate more to real life when we can see it, seeing is believing. More and more screens are popping up everywhere to provide us with entertainment, or as a way to write a document for school. Soon everything will be made out of screens.
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  • We tend to think the tiger represents the animal kingdom, but in truth, a grasshopper is a truer statistical example of an animal. The handcrafted Hollywood film won’t go away, but if we want to see the future of motion pictures, we need to study the swarming food chain below — YouTube, indie films, TV serials and insect-scale lip-sync mashups — and not just the tiny apex of tigers. The bottom is where the action is, and where screen literacy originates.
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      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      Yes screen play has become very popular among our entertainment today. But we can not forget the ideas the led us to this point in age. We must remember that there were stepping stones to every evolving creation. Hollywood is still a huge force in the making of movies, but other projects are beginning to spring up. These new programs maybe become more popular in a few years, but they will never erase what has been laid in stone before it.
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The Technium: Major Transitions in Technology - 0 views

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  • The major transitions in their histories are passages from one level of informational organization to another emergent level of order. Rather than catalog important inventions such as iron, steam power, or electricity, it is far more useful to dwell on how the structure of information is reshaped by new technology.
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      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      Tehnology has become so advanced in the on coming years that it is hard to keep ontop pf what is occurring in the world. We no longer need to catalog important inventions, but rather how the world reacts to the newest inventions. Technology is over taking the world, and is changing lives everyday. We must focus on how we handle these new additions to life and adapt instead of documenting the dates of the new inventions.
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      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      Writing has become a very important attribute to the world. It allows us to write down ideas that can be later refered to, and possibly be used to better the every growing world. The idea of writing has expanded into ascepts in life we use on a more regualr basis, such as laws enforced by government and a calendar to write down important dates and actually know the date.
  • No transition has affected our species, or the world at large, more than the creation of language. Indeed many would define humanity by its possession of true language. The informational aspects of language are now obvious.
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      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      The world would have never evolved if it weren't for the creation of language. Language defines humanity, showing the knowlegde we gain. When language changed we were also able to see the diversity among the different people living in the world. We need to stay ontop of the language we have create and be prepared for any changes that may happen with the evolution of the world.
  • We are in the midst of a movement where we embed information into all matter around us. We inject order into everything we manufacture by designing it, but now we are also adding small microscopic chips that can perform small amounts of computation and communication.
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      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      We are in the middle of the growing world of technology. We need to embrace the changings that are happening and the ones that are on the way. Once we start to graps the reins of technology we will only be bettering ourselves. We will be living in the web in the future, so now is the time to prepare, and gain all the knowlege we can ablout the changings that are occuring now.
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