Timo Ewalds

@nprDanCharles @radiosmith Great episode about pumped storage, but please read dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-u… for the challenges and limitations of scaling it up. That whole blog is a fantastic resource for understanding clean energy.

@cgpgrey Combining Rules for Rulers with Humans Need Not Apply scares me, as automation takes wealth creation out of the hands of the many.

@MarkBennett We look to official sources and local media, then get licenses and aggregate them.

@ctvedmonton @CTVNews @CityofEdmonton Google.org launched google.org/crisismap/2013…. Please give us data to publish.

@ceonyc Laurent Paris (@parisl) leads the NYC tech team.

Interesting TED Talk on how income inequality is bad for everyone: youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8…

@DellCares How would I talk to the driver authors to figure out if this is fixable in the drivers or if it's a hardware limitation?

@DellCares How would I update the drives on Ubuntu? I'm running the stock kernel: 3.2.0-30-generic #48+kamal6~DellXPS-Ubuntu .

@DellCares Here is my description of the problem: plus.google.com/11830466053444… . Give me physical buttons that I can feel or no buttons at all.

@DellCares I bought an xp13 dev edition. It is brilliant, other than the trackpad. Please sell me one with a good trackpad (ie not cypress).

It's so serene to be unemployed. Only a couple of emails per day instead of a couple dozen per hour.

Why must the #dell #xps13 #trackpad suck? Here's my attempt to make it useable: plus.google.com/11830466053444… . Can anyone do better?

Got a dell #xps13 developer edition. Ubuntu, great keyboard, display and sound, but mediocre trackpad. Why can't I customize the gestures?

Stop desertification and climate change by increasing the amount of herd animals? ted.com/talks/allan_sa…

Bill Nye explains climate change: vimeo.com/28991442

Why Peak Oil Threatens the International Monetary System aspousa.org/2013/01/commen…

Good bye doctors, welcome Watson: forbes.com/sites/bruceupb…

Cool, thin silicon apollon.uio.no/english/articl…

Carbon fee would put the brakes on global warming before it's too late: nj.com/times-opinion/… Cool to see this suggested in the mainstream

Interesting that some states are considering some pretty big carbon cuts nytimes.com/2013/02/08/bus…