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Month: July 2008

  • Economic Development – ‘ConnectGoldCountry’

    George Rebane Kentucky reports that getting internet connectivity into remote parts of the state – say, like the foothill counties of the Sierras – has been a boon to economic development of the region.  The estimated number of new jobs created by ConnectKentucky is about 63,000.  According to an article by Ann Carrns in today’s…

  • Los Angeles Times Gags Blogs

    George (the Banned) Rebane Slate has published a report about the LA flagship controlling the content of the blogs it serves.  This is another step down the path that MSM newspapers are taking toward oblivion (a related story on NC Media Watch).  Our beloved Onion just bans individuals (e.g. moi) and has yet to plumb…

  • Medpedia – The New Collaborative Online Encyclopedia of Medicine and Health

    George Rebane James Currier of Ooga Labs just announced the development and launch of a new wiki that promises to be the premier online service for everyone concerned with health, and that should just about cover everyone on the planet.  RR readers were introduced to James some months back (here), and, true to form, he…

  • ‘A WORLD THAT STANDS AS ONE’ – Obama in Berlin

    George Rebane Obama’s speech calling for a unified world starts out with a bald-faced lie and goes down from there.  It follows the well-trod and thinly veiled path toward world unity sought by socialists since the French Revolution.  Given his age and political panache, one can make the case that Senator Obama is the first…

  • Consensus on Global Warming is “Shattering” (PG-13) (edited)

    George Rebane More evidence on the global warming hysteria is now starting to pour in that corroborates what the technically-savvy skeptics have been saying for years – GW, and most certainly manmade GW, is not happening.  Anthony Watts and Russ Steele have been our northern California bellweather skeptics, and they have alerted us to the…

  • Ruminations – 22jul08

    George Rebane Scope insensitivity!!??   Well now folks, the politically correct wordsmiths have presented us with a new use for the word ‘insensitivity’ – a person is no longer ignorant or stupid, he’s just insensitive.  So an illiterate is just lexicographically insensitive; that sounds much nicer.  And an innumerate person, get this, is one afflicted with…

  • Singularity Signposts – 22jul08

    George Rebane As technology accelerates, one of the measurables is how often we have to upgrade our notion of supercomputer and how often supercomputer users must buy new ones.  The Department of Defense uses a lot of supercomputers and the pace of development has become so hectic that it must now upgrade every two to…

  • Jazz Camp in the Sierras

    George Rebane Another one of the gems, or should I say golden nuggets, of this foothills community of ours is Jazz Camp presented by the Sierra Jazz Society.  Once a year this society, under Artistic Director Bill Douglas, assembles a group of professional jazz musicians from near and far to put on a five day…

  • Big Box, Buy Locally, and Wal-Mart

    George Rebane Community planning and economic development of small counties like ours is often detoured and dead-ended by debates that lack a factual basis, or worse, based on myths generated by agenda-ladened activist groups and propagated by the MSM.  The location of big retailers like Costco and Wal-Mart in communities always brings out the warring…

  • Nevada County Economic Development Update – 17jul08 (Featured Post)

    George Rebane *** 25jul08 – This 17jul08 post is featured this Fri, Sat, Sun because it is referred to in my radio commentary that airs these three days.  After this weekend it will be relegated back to its normal place in the date queue.  I am grateful to the management of KNCO, Nevada County’s leading…

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