The Student Environmental Action Coalition has a new website.

I've worked on the website from 2001-2007, and before retiring, I transitioned the content over to a content management system (Drupal). So I'm glad to see that they are able to figure out the Drupal system and improve upon it!

You can see a beta version of the site I've been working on since January:

Energy Justice Map

The mapping is especially fast if you use the newly released Google browser Chrome
(For a map with a large number of markers, it is approximately five times faster than Firefox - which is an insane improvement!)

We're mapping around 10,000 power plants, primarily in the US, for the Energy Justice Network which is part of the Energy Action Coalition (a large coalition of anti-global warming groups).

I originally wrote this in 2004, but never published it anywhere. Here it is with some small edits.

“Information wants to be free.”
(Stewart Brand at the first Hackers' Conference in 1984)

“Activist information wants to be free too.”
(Aaron Kreider, 2008)

Introduction

I haven’t read the book. But I went to Notre Dame with David Freddoso, author of best-selling “The Case Against Barack Obama” and felt I should relate my experiences. During that time in school, I was a progressive leader on campus and he belonged to a group of conservatives who were trying not just to oppose our goals (which would be understandable), but also to shut our organizations down. The main targets of the attacks were the Women’s Resource Center, the Progressive Student Alliance, and the unrecognized LGB student group.

An open source radio project to create a software defined radio. Both the hardware (electrical design) and software are open source, and they have a community of people developing it:
http://www.philcovington.com/QuickSilver/

Software defined radios are amazing. You can record spectrum and do more. I'm wondering if I should buy one, or hold out as they keep getting better.

So GoDaddy is a rightwing company that you shouldn't support, but at least they are easier to deal with then some others and they're very stable which is critical in domain world. You just don't want to lose a domain and have to buy it back for $1000.

That said here is how to transfer domains from Yahoo to GoDaddy and save $25/domain per year.

1. Login to both accounts - Godaddy, and Yahoo (Small Business - Domains - Domain Manager).

Here are a couple possible causes for how a major progresive political party could develop in the US.

It will probably take several of them.

1. The death of the Democrats.

Walmart Watch just came out with a
map of Walmarts.

You can find new stores or old stores. You can find stores near you. You can find stores that have been stopped. Users can update information about the store.

I like it because it's very similar to what the Energy Justice Network is going to be doing with our power plants map site. You can find power plants (instead of stores), update their information, find groups or start your own group to oppose them, and share resources (files).

The corporate media shows its bias, as do most economists and politicians, by arguing that the current housing price decline is bad.

It's bad for people who own homes, and especially bad for people whose houses are being foreclosed, but it's good news for the MANY people who rent or who expect to buy a home in the future.

Yahoo is evil. They are increasing domain registration cost from $10 to $35.

I just got an email that didn't even use words like "increase". Just "keep enjoying your service" (they used those words) while your domain registration cost soars.

Bad move. Hopefully they'll be pressured by webmasters to not do it. Most everyone else charges $10 for domains. I could understand $10-$12, but $35 is crazy.