Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Phonix Trikes.
A video demonstrating the turning abilities of the Phonix Trike. These things are very cool looking. Really low!
Not sure if this Phoenix Trikes is the same company. They make VW based trikes similar to Bon Trikes.
A video demonstrating the turning abilities of the Phonix Trike. These things are very cool looking. Really low!
Not sure if this Phoenix Trikes is the same company. They make VW based trikes similar to Bon Trikes.
Excellent weird pushbikes:
Cool:
Tall!
Probably more practicle:
The Chinese have adopted electric bikes in huge numbers. Local legislators tried to hold this movement down without success. When a tide of millions of people all move one way it is impossible to stop.
This video shows a conversion of an inexpencive mountain bike into a plug in hyrid.
And off I surf :)
Cool:
Tall!
Probably more practicle:
The Chinese have adopted electric bikes in huge numbers. Local legislators tried to hold this movement down without success. When a tide of millions of people all move one way it is impossible to stop.
This video shows a conversion of an inexpencive mountain bike into a plug in hyrid.
And off I surf :)
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
If he's good enough for Amigos de Obama, he's good enough for me... but I don't get to vote... we get to fight in the wars America starts but don't get to vote out the governments that start them.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Marina Camila Mijangos Garcia has repaid her loan so I can either withdraw the funds from my Kiva account or relend the money to another budding business person. This is fun!!
So, I'll go and look for someone...
It's easy:
1) Click on "Lend" from the above page.
2) Select any criteria you have. I prefer to lend to mothers rather than fathers cause mothers feed, clothe and educate children, and repay loans. Fathers can be less reliable.
3) Pick someone from the list. Vietnam is a country that deserves our help after we supported the USA in their pointless Vietnam War.
4) Check out their lender. Is their interest rate well below local unsecured lending rates so that my money gives good benefit? Is their repayment rate good so I know that people are learning how to run a good business that will support them and not just living off debt cycles using Kiva like a credit card?
5) If it still looks good, off I go.
Because I am relending the funds I don't need my credit card. The funds already in my Kiva account are sent out. Easy :)
I haven't found a way to make a donation to Kiva for this re-lend of the money. They didn't put a lot of pressure on me for a donation.
I chose Tran Thi Minh from Y Yen, Vietnam:
She is an experienced borrower. Her business is growing so her family's standard of living will be improving. The purpose is sustainable.
So, I'll go and look for someone...
It's easy:
1) Click on "Lend" from the above page.
2) Select any criteria you have. I prefer to lend to mothers rather than fathers cause mothers feed, clothe and educate children, and repay loans. Fathers can be less reliable.
3) Pick someone from the list. Vietnam is a country that deserves our help after we supported the USA in their pointless Vietnam War.
4) Check out their lender. Is their interest rate well below local unsecured lending rates so that my money gives good benefit? Is their repayment rate good so I know that people are learning how to run a good business that will support them and not just living off debt cycles using Kiva like a credit card?
5) If it still looks good, off I go.
Because I am relending the funds I don't need my credit card. The funds already in my Kiva account are sent out. Easy :)
I haven't found a way to make a donation to Kiva for this re-lend of the money. They didn't put a lot of pressure on me for a donation.
I chose Tran Thi Minh from Y Yen, Vietnam:
She is an experienced borrower. Her business is growing so her family's standard of living will be improving. The purpose is sustainable.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Curitiba, Brazil has shown the first world how to create a simple, efficient, environmentally friendly, people friendly, socially responcible city on a shoe string budget.
I first learnt of Jaime Lerner's design of Curitiba on SBS Australia's Dateline.
He has turned his back on urban planning habits favouring livable human cities with parklands, programs to get people out of poverty and inexpencive public transport.
Treehuggers article:
The bus system takes priority over cars. I would imagine that you wouldn't have to see many buses wiz by in their bus lane to get over the need to take your own car into the daily trafic jam. Having a huge, bi-articulated bus on a road with cars would be disasterous but in their bus lanes this would not be a problem.
Wikipedia Article
I first learnt of Jaime Lerner's design of Curitiba on SBS Australia's Dateline.
He has turned his back on urban planning habits favouring livable human cities with parklands, programs to get people out of poverty and inexpencive public transport.
Treehuggers article:
The bus system takes priority over cars. I would imagine that you wouldn't have to see many buses wiz by in their bus lane to get over the need to take your own car into the daily trafic jam. Having a huge, bi-articulated bus on a road with cars would be disasterous but in their bus lanes this would not be a problem.
Wikipedia Article
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Thursday, February 07, 2008
It's definately better to comment on youtube videos on a blog than in the youtube site where the post size is limited and any comment just gets lost umungst the masses of other comments.
Anonomous have taken on a difficult task. It doesn't matter how many times a church is torn down it only reinforces the followers faith. You can't bring logic into the closed circular arguements offered by religion. There is a gap in the theist's brain that is filled by religion. Atheists are comfortable with this gap and don't yearn to fill it with nonsence. :P
This is an excellent video. The effect of having the monologue read by a computer is great. It sounds really menacing. Well done.
Anonomous have taken on a difficult task. It doesn't matter how many times a church is torn down it only reinforces the followers faith. You can't bring logic into the closed circular arguements offered by religion. There is a gap in the theist's brain that is filled by religion. Atheists are comfortable with this gap and don't yearn to fill it with nonsence. :P
This is an excellent video. The effect of having the monologue read by a computer is great. It sounds really menacing. Well done.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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