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I saw this as I was going through news and thought it was worthy of a bump. Over on Metalink, Alexey ran a test on a bunch of RIA technologies to find out performance. I’m not sure how meaningful the results are, but as these technologies come together, more tests like these will be good […]

Jennifer Hudson is cropping up all over the place. She was in nearly all of the half dozen fashion rags Ang and I returned from LA with. It’s so cool to see a woman rock her real assets! I wish we would have seen her instead.metadata:actress body image celebrity diva fashion […]

I’m sitting in the Engage keynote by Kevin Lynch and when he started talking about Apollo, the questions from the audience really started ramping up. It’s very interesting to see people like Ben Galbraith from Ajaxian ask about being able to access native code in Apollo or Ryan Carson asking about the business opportunities.
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I’m a bit late on this (that’s my new thing), but things just keep getting bigger and better when it comes to climate policy. Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington are joining forces to reduce emissions. Kudos to all five governors who pledged that:

…within six months they will set a regional target for lower emissions. A year after that, they pledged, they will devise a regional cap-and-trade system, which would let companies that can’t meet their emission reduction targets buy credits from those that reduce emissions more than required.

There’s even icing on the cake: British Columbia is likely to join in, which makes sense given that North America’s energy grid is pretty well integrated across national boundaries.

It strikes me that the combined commitment is good for at least two reasons: 1) It pressures each of the member states to take their goals seriously; 2) The sheer size creates an ever more effective market for reducing emissions, one that is big enough to force meaningful action from national governments. In fact, the combined population of the five states and BC is roughly that of Italy, France, or the United Kingdom (or, if you prefer, as large as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand combined).

The University of Washington College of Architecture and UrbanPlanning & The Northwest Danish Foundation invite you to:———-Global Green: Sustainable Planning and Design in the PacificNorthwest and DenmarkWINTER 2007: CIVIC and GREEN INFRASTRU…

I’m a rule breaker… and when other people break rules in the name of good design, I stand up and applaud. That is why, I’m happy to point Mike Industries readers to a new creation by Messrs Dan Mall, Jon Aldinger, and Mark Huot: swfIR. “But I already have a swfIR!”, you say. “I use it to shine my beautiful linoleum floors.” This swfIR isn’t a disposable mop, though. It’s a new Flash replacement technique…

From an announcement forwarded to us from our friends… Global Green: Sustainable Planning and Design in the Pacific Northwest and DenmarkCivic and Green InfrastructureMarch 8, 7-8:30 PM, Kane Hall Room 120 at the UW Seattle campus…

The Port of Seattle issued this press release, detailing among other things, this:

I’m just heading out the door to catch a plane to San Francisco for Engage. The event starts tomorrow so I’m hoping to hang out with people tonight. If you’re in the area, drop me an email, I’ll be trying to catch up as I wait for the plane.
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That was a blurb in the latest Georgetown gazatte, the photo-copied broadsheet published by the Georgetown Community Council. The building at 6601 Carleton had been up for sale, and even had a buyer, but the county records said that it never changed hands–until last month, when it was purchased by Allan Phillips, former Georgetown Community Council chair. This little store was the subject of our very first post, and a few months ago, the food went out the door at discount rates. No such luck on the tobacco and alcohol.