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Slow Going for Alt Vehicles
A new DOE report predicts how many vehicles will use alternative fuel by 2030. Looks like by the time Jenna Bush or Chelsea Clinton consider presidential runs, 72 percent of vehicles will rely entirely on the trusty internal combustion engine for power. In Autopia. From Wired News on December 16, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Vote: Best Games of 2006
Gears of War? Zelda? Make sure we consider your favorite for our end-of-year video game awards. The votes are rolling in, so nominate the one that stands above the rest in your world. In Game|Life. From Wired News on December 16, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Solving the planetary crisis
Discover magazine runs two letters this month that bring up two more problems with the International Astronomical Union's criteria for planets. Jerry Svoboda points out that because Neptune's orbit is crossed by Pluto, Neptune fails to "clear its zone," thus failing one criterion for planethood. Brett Bochner argues (in a reductio ad absurdum sort of way) that Jupiter is 300 times larger than the Earth and is made almost entirely of gas, and thus shouldn't be lumped with the Earth. Fortunately, I have the solution. Everyone knows the IAU's tortured criteria were designed to From Joho the Blog on December 16, 2006 at 1:49 p.m..

Backstory: Is America pledging less?
The schoolkid's mantra is more legally mandated - but less recited - than ever. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 16, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Facebook: A campus fad becomes a campus fact
The social-networking website isn't growing like it once did, but only because almost every US student is already on it. From Christian Science Monitor | Learning on December 16, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Global Voices get-together
The Global Voices folks are meeting in Delhi, and there's a whole lot of blogging going on. There's live blogging at the conference blog. Rebecca's put a slideshow up at GV. Theres IRFC at irc.freenode.net #globalvoices. There's a live audio stream. You can search for the tag gvdelhi2006 to find all the other blogs, photos, streams, and biometric monitoring... [Tags: gvdelhi2006 globalVoices berkman]... From Joho the Blog on December 16, 2006 at 12:46 p.m..

Zack's transitional revolution
Zack Exley has posted Part 2 of his call for revolution. It's a transition piece, leading us to a post in which he may suggest some of the changes he's asking us to start thinking about. But it tells a terrific story that involves a white teenager in dreadlocks, an Ethiopian cab driver, and Larry Summers being a swaggering dickhead. Zack is right. We're not thinking big enough. We should be thinking as big as the possibilities we've created for ourselves. Reality is for wimps. Possibilities come first. And we're not living up to the possibilities we've created for From Joho the Blog on December 16, 2006 at 12:46 p.m..

Desire (Design and Democracy)
I think the current Privacy/We-blog seminar (see blog) is turning out very well. The students are working on a project that is very "web2.0-ish" and a profound reflection on the business models that drive this market (or new bubble if you will). One of the questions that constantly return to me is what is the function if design as seen from strategists. There is a discourse about design is being in charge of providing "emotional value" to products - or in other words: to sense desires of consumers. I have addressed th From owrede_log on December 16, 2006 at 9:45 a.m..

Learning for individuals & for communities, too
Most people talking about Web 2.0+Learning come at the topic from the individual learning perspective, rarely from the organizational perspective, and almost never from both. Leave a comment if you have an opinion on this… From Internet Time Blog on December 16, 2006 at 4:45 a.m..

Gallaudet Will Proceed With Action Against Protesters
Gallaudet University will proceed with disciplinary action against student demonstrators who forced the ouster of the universityâ€™s president, trustees said. From New York Times: Education on December 16, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Rhode Island: Senator to Take Post at Brown University
Senator Lincoln Chafee, Republican of Rhode Island, has accepted a job at Brown University after losing his seat to Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat, last month. From New York Times: Education on December 16, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..

Negotiations Are Signaled on Phone Ban in City Schools
The city is considering a plan to allow students to pay to check their cellphones at the schoolhouse door. From New York Times: Education on December 16, 2006 at 1:45 a.m..