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• Dismantling of a Libertarian - Link focuses on Matt Ridley, rather than Kent Hovind (already dismantled?)
• EULAlyzer - End-User License AGreement Analysis software, free. (1.7MB download)
• Freecycle - Provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to recycle/ give away unwanted items.
• Global Consciousness Project - Seems to show that random is not random, and mind is over matter. May validate Chopra.
• Goal: Dell FREEDOM Box - A Fully Open System for Home Users by 2010 - Dell IdeaStorm
• Is it possible for a virgin to give birth? - Describes (scientifically) how a virgin birth *could* occur. At least two critical steps appear to be genetic.
• National Popular Vote - Electoral college reform by direct election of the President. Site tracks progress of legislation by state on US map. LInks to editorial support and book.
• Plumpy'nut - Peanut-butter like stuff (inspired by Nutella) effective for reversing severe malnutrition. WikiPedia entry includes picture of package
• This I Believe - NPR, Atlantic Public Media and This I Believe, Inc. partner, want 350-500 words.
• Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor - Uses lithium-6 to absorb neutrons (from?) in a 20x6 foot space. 200kW. [Alternative Energy Innovation News]
• Tuition-Free Colleges - "10 colleges that offer students a free eduction" [BusinessWeek]
• Urban Furniture - And other Homeless Innovations. Starts with facts about homelessness in USA, but ends with a few possible solutions.

• Global Orgasm - Peace through Global Ecstasy - On December 22, 2007, the Synchronized Global Orgasm will create a concentrated influx of positive energy into the quantum field of the Earth by combining orgasm with conscious intention for Peace. Initiative by BaringWitness.org, design by Globulart Dise�o, globulart.com (December 22, 2007)
• Peak Oil: local residents kick oil rigs in the shins - "Transition Towns" (in the UK) attempt to 'relocalize' economy, delay peak oil. [Environmental Graffiti] (December 22, 2007)
• Senate stays in session over holiday to thwart Bush - Democratic-led Congress blocks "recess appointments" from the White House, though most senators left the Capitol for the Christmas holiday earlier in the week. [CNN.com] (December 22, 2007)
• MIT corrects inherited retardation, autism in mice - Credits class of drugs not yet approved by the FDA. Gives tech. details, allows responses [Science Blog] (December 20, 2007)
• The God Effect - Apparently, subconcious civic priming works better than subconcious religious stimulation to promote altruism (December 19, 2007)
• Stanford's nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones - improvement to Lithium-Ion cells. (December 18, 2007)
• Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost - $1 per watt, NanoSolar booked for 18 months. (December 18, 2007)
• Netherlands adopts open-source software - deadline of April 2008 to start using open-source software "estimates it would save $8.8 million a year on city housing registers alone" "numerous European towns and cities, notably Munich, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, using open-source systems remain a tiny slice of the overall software market" (December 13, 2007)
• A child's view of the $100 laptop - Rory Cellan-Jones enlists the help of his son to see what a youngster in the UK makes of the machine. Endorses. [BBC News] (December 12, 2007)
• Moon Rocket - Open-Source Contract With Boeing - NASA will make *specifications* for the Ares I "open-source and non-proprietary" [Popular Mechanics] (December 12, 2007)
• Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead - Celebrates defeat of the attempt to award California's electoral votes by congressional district, which would have given the Republican candidate 20-25 California electoral votes in 2008. (December 7, 2007)
• To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood - liberal - progressive proposes end to rights for corporations. Users respond with comments and average 4 of 5 rating. (November 30, 2007)
• Finnish kids are the brightest in the world - Apparently in an un-privatized system. (November 29, 2007)
• xo-laptop: On the Open-Sourcing of Business - "Linux is the best operating system yet written." . . . "free and open-source software is just the scientific model applied to programming" (November 29, 2007)
• A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions - OLPC in major media. [WSJ.com] (November 24, 2007)
• Nanosolar’s Breakthrough - Solar Now Cheaper than Coal. STory lists innovations, includes video and table comparing technologies. 15 comments. [Celsias] (November 23, 2007)
• Where Do Ugly Americans Live? - "Most attractive" in Miami and San Diego. Allows comment. [Anxus] (November 23, 2007)
• Plugging Africa's kids in to $100 laptop - An instance of OLPC, a nonprofit initiative to design, build, test and ship 15 million at-cost, child-friendly laptops to developing countries. (April 11, 2007)
• Psychologist Produces The First-ever 'World Map Of Happiness' - Puts Denmark in first, USA at 23. (November 14, 2006)
• Open Source Software and Schools - New Opportunities and Directions. "to responsibly spend taxpayers’ money and to maximize the potential of information and communication technology in education, it is important that educators learn about open source software and challenge conceptions that give priority to proprietary software." (December 30, 2005)
• Service of Siblings - Sociologists discover that siblings are good. (October 15, 2004)

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