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If you haven’t checked out the NNDB Mapper, it is a pretty fun and useful tool.  As with Wikipedia, however, it requires the persistent attention of the public to maintain its credibility and usefulness. I made a map myself about the chemical spill which happened in Petrolia, PA this past weekend.
Click here to see the map.
Via Pittsburgh Tribune Review:
State environmental officials will determine whether Indspec Chemical Corp. in Petrolia will be penalized for a chemical release that formed a mile-lo

MARTHA: So what do we do now? What are you going to do now to try to fight to make sure that this program works as best as humanly possible?
DENNIS: Hah! Well, you know, that’s a big order. I mean, you’ve got the Treasury Secretary, basically, who’s going to pick winners and losers. From a capitalistic standpoint, this thing is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. It actually destroys the idea of a free market economy. The Treasury Secretary can pick winners and losers, we can reward speculators, bail

From What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff page 148:
Doug Engelbart sat under a twenty-two-foot-high video screen, “dealing lightning with both hands.”  At least that’s the way it seemed to Chuck Thacker, a young Xerox PARC computer designed who was later shown a video of the demonstration that changed the course of the computer world.
On December 9, 1968, the oNLine System was shown publicly to the world for the first time.  Encouraged by Taylor, Engelbart had chosed the annual Fall Joint Computer

Shakti Sunfire and Rainbow Michael perform at Sonic Bloom. Fire dance - single and double hoop, dou

A video I compiled for a Law, Tech, and Society course at Skidmore College - Spring 2008