December 12, 2002 I like this. If you live in London you can locate your virtual blog in the real world by adding your details to a tube map. I've found out I have all kinds of interesting people blogging near me... Click here to visit the map.
London bloggers tube map
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December 07, 2002 Article from the Washington Monthly (via www.aldaily.com) reviewing Keith Bradsher's book High and Mighty: SUVs. "...most Americans take it on faith that the only way to be safe on the highway is to be driving a tank (or the next best thing--a Hummer). Bradsher shatters this myth and highlights the strange disconnect between the perception and the reality of SUVs. The occupant death rate in SUVs is 6 percent higher than it is for cars--8 percent higher in the largest SUVs. The main reason is that SUVs carry a high risk of rollover; 62 percent of SUV deaths in 2000 occurred in rollover accidents. SUVs don't handle well, so drivers can't respond quickly when the car hits a stretch of uneven pavement or "trips" by scraping a guardrail. Even a small bump in the road is enough to flip an SUV traveling at high speed. On top of that, SUV roofs are not reinforced to protect the occupants against rollover; nor does the government require them to be. " Read the full article here
The trouble with SUVs...
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December 03, 2002 "The newer information technologies are profoundly democratizing, because they don't reward economies of scale. They work best in decentralized, non-controlled societies. They're anti-authoritarian, because authoritarians control societies by their ability to control access to information. So if people can get information on their own simply by dialing up a computer, then we have ways of getting around hierarchies. The internet helps to spread power out rather than concentrating it." From a transcript of the Closer to Truth TV show.
Francis Fukuyama on the democratic power of IT
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