A relative newcomer to the Friday Five, Tanya the Happy Tester asks: Due to a highly improbable circumstance, you have the power to create or destroy 5 of the laws where you live. This could be anything from changing a local ordinance to overturning case law to drafting new sections of your constitution. What do you change? That’s a really interesting question, and I’m not sure I can really answer it in the way it’s intended. You see, most of the problems I have with South Korean law have to do with their enforcement, as opposed to the laws themselves, …
Month: February 2005
T-Shirt Contest
No, Shawn, not THAT kind of T-shirt contest. The shirts are not (necessarily) wet. No, you see, Viridian Pope Bruce Sterling has another design contest on, this time a T-shirt design contest. The deadline is March 2nd, which leaves only a little time, but I’m sure some of you out there can do up some really nice designs. The prize is pretty cool, though for me, the process of designing it was fun in itself. The shirt is supposed to convey not the dark image of how absolutely screwed up the world is ecologically, because anyone who’s honest and intelligent …
A good reason to fund astronomy
Boom.
Oil Trader Fisticuffs
via the latest Viridian Note, here’s an interesting look at what happens if you try to disrupt oiltrading in Britain. ‘I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.’?Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: ‘Sod off, Swampy.’ Greenpeace had hoped to paralyse oil trading at the exchange in the City near Tower Bridge on the day that the Kyoto Protocol came into force. ‘The Kyoto Protocol has modest aims to improve the climate and we need huge aims,’?a …
Neal Stephenson Interview
Here’s an