the hotel TV inflection point

we're at an interesting point of time right now from a hotel TV point-of-view ... every now and then you'll still get a room with tube TVs in the US, although flat panels predominate.

in 5 years, i doubt you'll see tubes anywhere in the states.

the future of a rising tide

good article about rising water levels and the marshall islands. i knew a woman in college who is marshallese ... i'm going to try and track herdown to see what she thinks.

http://m.yahoo.com/w/ynews/article/topstories/16?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxml.news.yahoo.com%2Fus%2Fnews%2Frss%2Frichstoryrss.html%3Fu%3D%2Fap%2F20101206%2Fap_on_sc%2Fclimate_disappearing_nations&.ts=1291684006&.intl=US&.lang=en&ref_w=frontdoors

the future of tom flanagan

i'm guessing this guy will be forced to resign his job in less than a fortnight:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/8172916/WikiLeaks-Canadian-official-calls-for-assassination-of-Julian-Assange.html

{12/1 flanagan has now apologized for his remarks (of course).  there's currently a witch hunt against the wiki leaks people, so there's some air cover for flanagan being an ass ... i still think it may take him down.

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/12/01/flanagan-wikileaks-assange.html}