Trouble with Airline Codes
Nothing like having an easily-confused airline code:
Kirsch Municipal Airport carries an unfortunate IATA identifier code and, if this comment to the Google Maps forum is genuine, it's starting to wind up the local jet charter firm.
'IRS' is the commo...
Natural Gas: The Future.
I'm not in the natgas cornucoppian camp, but this Peter Tertzakian piece is still worth a read. The key is this graph:
BMW Apps Demo
Love this BMW iDrive app, but I have to assume they're gated by movement. No Facebook/Twitter updating on the road, right?
Fact-Checking the Apocalypse
We should fact-check the apocalypse more often:
On ABC’s "This Week," the Rev. Franklin Graham was wrong when he said that earthquakes, wars and famines are occurring "with more frequency and more intensity."
The preacher, who is the son of the Rev....
Skier Outjumps Avalanche
Posted this earlier over on Posterous, but here it is again: Skier outjumps avalanche.
Field Notes: IPOs, Aliens, GDP, Entrepreneurs, Degrees, Vancouver, etc.
Global World Product Will Not Grow at 4%+ for Five Years (Source)
Mississippi river flood status (Source)
SETI to stop its alien-seeking radio dishes (Source)
WEF report on entrepreneurship (Source)
Foreign buyers buoy Vancouver housing (Source)
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Fineberg on Neo-Evolution
This wasn't quite dystopian enough for me, Harvey Fineberg on neo-evolution at this year's TED was still interesting:
Field Notes: Cat Bonds, Playboy Disease, Rail, Oil, Liquidity, Hitchens, etc.
The Trouble with Catastrophe Bonds(Source)
Bacterium that causes Legionnaires disease linked to mystery illness at Playboy Mansion (Source)
"This Is the Renaissance of Rail." (Source)
Imagining a world without oil (Source)
Liquidity as an Investment S...
Ian Morris on Why the West Rules
Ian Morris, author of one of my favorite books of 2010 -- Why the West Rules, For Now -- gave a seminar on the subject recently as part of the Long Now series. Highly worthy listening.
The Double-Rainbow of Powder-Skiing
You know that crazy-effusive double-rainbow video that went viral? Here, hands down, is the powder-skiing version. It's serious embarra-stoke.
Field Notes: Yuan, Education, Cleantech, Housing, etc.
Educational Tech Gets a look from early-stage investors (Source)
Silicon Valley Cashes Out Selling Private Shares (Source)
Fastest China Appreciation in Five Months ahead (Source)
For VC’s, No More Chasing Magic Batteries (Source)
Where the housing ...
Vancouver Bubble Watch: 25-Person Bidding War
I was sent this by someone today on the latest madness in the Vancouver real estate market. It sort of blew my mind -- 25 bidders, $655,000 premium, and 34% over the asking price for a house on 50x125 lot.
Kitsilano house goes for $655,000 over asking...
