 Scientific American | Private Ownership of Fisheries May Shore Up Stocks New York Times - 5 hours ago By CORNELIA DEAN Giving people ownership rights in marine fisheries - in a way, privatizing the fish - can halt or even reverse catastrophic declines in commercial stocks, researchers in California and Hawaii are reporting. New system could help avert collapse of fisheries Reuters Study: Catch share system may prevent overfishing The Associated Press Scientific American - Los Angeles Times - New York Times Blogs - Independent all 137 news articles |
Archive for September, 2008
Private Ownership of Fisheries May Shore Up Stocks – New York Times
18
Sep
Home Swimmer Makes Tethered Swimming A Reality
18
Sep
By Andrew Liszewski
As someone who speaks fluent Simpsons, when I first saw this Home Swimmer device I immediately thought of the episode where Bart is forced to join ballet after missing out on signing up for all of the popular sports, including ‘T.S.’
Skinner: [over PA] Attention, students. It’s time once again to choose a gym class for the coming term so let’s all prove how adult we can be by filing to the gym in a calm and orderly manner…even though it’s first come, first serve, and the most popular sports fill up fast.
[A mass hysteria takes over as everyone rushes to the gym]
Willy: [getting trampled] Aah! Too many wee ones.
Richard: This gets uglier every year! Any sign of Bart and Milhouse?
Lewis: No…and if they don’t get here soon, it’ll be T.S. for them.
Ralph: [at "tethered swimming"] I don’t feel right.
And I can’t say for sure if the Home Swimmer was inspired by the sight of Ralph thrashing around in the Springfield Elementary pool while tethered to the edge, but deep down I’d like to think it was. Basically it’s another take on the ‘endless pool’ concept which allows you to swim for hours without ever hitting the edge and having to stop to turn around. While it might seem a little embarrassing to use in public, for home use it’s cheaper than installing an actual endless pool which uses a constantly running current of water to keep you stationary, and considerably cheaper than installing an Olympic sized pool in your backyard. The Home Swimmer system comes with all of the poles, straps and connectors you’ll need in addition to the belt that keeps you in place, and is available from the company’s website for $89.99.
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This is what I want in a president
17
Sep
(author unknown) via Joho the Blog
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Shared by Robert Scoble
Awesome ad. Sounds a lot like what I asked for on my blog, too.
This ad presses all my buttons — the right buttons! He’s calm, clear, offers a plan, offers hope beyond a plan, embodies the change he’s promising, and makes McCain look confused and self-serving in silent contrast.
Rancho Escondido, Estate of the Day
17
Sep
Filed under: Estates
Santa Fe, New Mexico is home to a lot of pricey real estate but this is the most lavish home I've seen in the area. Rancho Escondido is a large home on over 11 acres high in the hills of Tesuque with red rock box canyon cliffs and a waterfall as a backdrop. The home is also surrounded by a 40 acre conservation easement for open views of the mountains and plenty of privacy. The impressive property includes an equestrian facility, guest house, guest casita, pool cabana and an infinity pool with perfect mountain views. The home itself includes eight bedrooms and details like a handcrafted copper entry, indoor/outdoor fireplaces, limestone and oak floors, hand crafted tiles, custom cabinets. The home is being sold with all those dark brown furnishings for a list price of $21.5 million.
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IBM putting social networking under microscope
17
Sep
NEW YORK--In an announcement sure to raise eyebrows among the companies gathered at the Web 2.0 Expo here, IBM said Wednesday it is opening the IBM Center for Social Software.
So is IBM intent on becoming another social media company? Hardly. Most likely Big Blue intends the new center to be a focal point for developing software tailored to help companies build social networking tools onto the sites. More importantly, the center could help IBM tailor consulting packages from IBM Global Services.
With that in mind, IBM's decision to open the center in Cambridge, Mass., (where the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University are based) rather than in Silicon Valley (where most social media companies are based ) makes more sense. In a press release, IBM describes the facility as an incubation center where it can collaborate with both customers and people in academia.
So why's this interesting? Many companies here on the exhibit floor at the Jacob Javits Center aren't social media companies. Instead, they're trying to sell software, hosting, and consulting services to social media companies and to traditional technology buyers like auto makers that are trying to add communities and other "social" tools to their Web sites.
IBM became a dominant supplier of software for Web 1.0 sites (both e-commerce and publishing) by following a similar model: It started into the market with rudimentary e-commerce and application server software packaged with IBM Global Services consulting contracts.
Smaller competitors such as the long-since-departed software maker Open Market scoffed at the IBM offering, noting that is was little more than a developer's tool kit that IBM used as a come-on to sell its consulting. They had a point, but IBM won that competition anyway.
Can IBM do the same to the nascent market for social-networking software? Few of the companies here at the Web 2.0 can afford to ignore that possibility.
