Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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When is a permalink not perma? When you've exhausted your 25MB allocation on your server. I'm moving the rehearsal diary and reviews specialized blogs into new locations at Comcast. Excuse our dust. posted: 7:38:25 PM |
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Scott Klemmer and other researchers at Stanford are developing ButterflyNet, an electronic field notebook for biologists. In the field, the tool allows workers to tie together handwritten field notes and sketches, photographs, GPS data, and data from other electronic sources. Instead of a tablet computer, the electronic notebook relies on a digital pen and paper technology licensed from Anoto. The system is being evaluated at the university's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. posted: 3:34:27 PM |
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The Economist recaps the dodgy status of the Comprehensive Everglades Recovery Plan (CERP), a large-scale state-federal cooperative effort to restore the south Florida ecosystem while providing for economic growth. The editors draw some sad parallels with another recent Gulf Coast disaster:
... it is already clear that the Everglades project is falling well short of
what was first envisaged. A few projects will go ahead, thanks to Governor
[Jeb] Bush's intervention—at an unknown cost. Much of the rest of CERP
risks falling into limbo.
And the main reason for the disappointment is one that holds an uncomfortable lesson for New Orleans: you need both the federal and state governments if restoration is to work properly. However awkward it is to have squabbling interest groups, a single, biased paymaster is worse. The implication for Louisiana is that the federal government cannot do everything. The implication for the Everglades is that the federal government needs to do more to keep its share of the original bargain by authorising more projects and providing the cash it promised. posted: 10:33:37 AM |
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