Sea Shepherd
Australia Shuts Ports to Japanese Whalers
The latest news from the Sea Shepherd.
iTunes Reviews
Today I received an email from an artist thanking me for the great review I gave his album on iTunes. Not knowing him I searched the iTunes music store for his name and sure enough there was a glowing 5-star review of the album in question.
These Tunes are Simply Awesome, It brings me back to me early days back in Europe when I first started my band Luna Negra. The slow yet very hopeful and happy tunes are an inspiration to me. While I specialize in Flamenco guitar I feel like I can now reach new heights in music. – sic
Signed Ottmar Liebert. Looked up the other reviews by “Ottmar Liebert” and found 5 altogether. Notified iTunes of the impersonation.
Tuesday Morning
0ºF this morning. Santa Fe could afford to pass on a few degrees of coldness to this place, which seems to be warming up rapidly.
I am still working on my Tibet photos, now down to 1,500 from 1,950. 
Found this yesterday:
mori-cup
these cups were designed in 1969, especially for blind people, to help them tactically distinguish one from another.
LINK to main page. I can imagine a little game between friends… fill with liquids, some tasty, some awful, blindfold guests who have to remember the shape of cup…
Oh, and check out what Exxon has to say:
Heavens to Betsy! Is Exxon lightening up on climate denial? | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
Exxon says important questions remain about the degree to which fossil-fuel emissions are contributing to global warming. But “the modeling has gotten better” analyzing the probabilities of how rising greenhouse-gas emissions will affect global temperatures, Mr. Cohen said. Exxon continues to stress the modeling is imperfect; it is “helpful to an analysis, but it’s not a predictor,” he said. But he added, “we know enough now – or, society knows enough now – that the risk is serious and action should be taken.”
Whoa, that’s amazing: …the risk is serious and action should be taken. And with those words the sun is breaking through the clouds and lighting up the Santa Fe landscape.
Chaco Canyon, Pueblo Bonito
xrez gigapixel images – Chaco Canyon, Pueblo Bonito
Incredible hi-resolution images. This is just one of several you can find at xrez.com. Very cool.
Streetcars
Streetcars Back on Rails in America (TreeHugger)
When Portland’s new line was put in, It attracted about 100 projects worth $2.3 billion in less than five years, all within two blocks of the line. They include 7,248 housing units and 4.6 million square feet of office and retail. Proximity to mass transit allowed developers to build fewer parking spaces. Ridership was more than triple projections.::USA Today
