Elizabeth Gentile has posted some lovely VR scenes from Central Park, site of Christo & Jean-Claude’s The Gates. Scene 1, 2, 3, 4. Well worth checking out.
Kate adds:
In Central Park, there is a great work of art, called The Gates. There are many gates that have beautiful flags hanging from them. They are made by Christo & Jean-Claude. The works of art will be on display for two weeks.
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on the growing number of bloggers. Quicktime video
Local utility Alliant Energy announced that they have taken full control of an $82M Mexican resort development, Laguna Del Mar. Thomas Content and Judy Newman follow the story. Content notes that Alliant also lost money invested in Brazil several years ago. Clearly, these regulated entities have no business spending money in this way. How about a rate cut (MG & E also spreads the money around in odd ways. Background here and here.
The game consists of one golfer, one shooter and a field judge. The purpose of the game is to shoot your opponent’s high-flying golf ball out of the air with a finely-tuned 12-gauge shotgun, thus preventing him (your opponent) from lofting a 9-iron approach shot onto a distant “green” and making a “hole in one.” Points are scored by blasting your opponent’s shiny new Titleist out of the air and causing his shot to fail miserably. That earns you two points.
Appleton based regional carrier Air Wisconsin (which operates much of United Express’s routes) has participated in a $125M investment round with US Airways. Fascinating game of poker as Air Wisconsin renegotiates it’s deal with United and a rather interesting gamble. I wish them luck!
Keep in mind that Air Wisconsin currently has one (!) customer – United Airlines. United is shopping around for a better deal on regional flights (in effect, squeezing Air Wisconsin). Air Wisconsin does not, or did not have much leverage, other than price. This deal creates a different playing field for Air Wisconsin and United…
Joel has some useful comments on Microsoft’s latest attack on other software companies: “free” antispyware software. Wiping out the competition surely opens up a can of worms (I agree with Joel that it is highly unlikely that Microsoft will truly wipe out your spyware – especially when a friendly media conglomerate has paid to put it on your vulnerable pc).
News.com on the lobbying behind the failed Indiana bill that would have killed any type of municipal broadband (Local telco monopoly SBC was behind this).
Wisconsin DPI Superintendent Candidates participated in a forum yesterday, sponsored by wispolitics.com. Alan Borsuk has the details.
Though he foresaw many ways in which Big Brother might watch us, even George Orwell never imagined that the authorities would keep a keen eye on
your bin.Residents of Croydon, south London, have been told that the microchips
being inserted into their new wheely bins may well be adapted so that the
council can judge whether they are producing too much rubbish.If the technology suggests that they are, errant residents may be visited
by officials bearing advice on how they might “manage their rubbish more
effectively”.
I wonder if Madison’s forthcoming trash bins include this “feature”?