Month: July 2011

Instead of having panels on your house, in five years you'll buy something more like wallpaper, something that covers your ...

We don't have to replace all oil with solar energy in order to have a profound impact on market prices ...

Gore's fight for the planet has failed, as a moral and political exercise. It will only succeed as an economic ...

I have never understood the cry of "socialism" against open source, a cry I still hear, but I think it ...

No yuppie wants to live above the Kirkwood Bar & Grill. But if any KNO board member said that, they'd ...

Open source is a friend of competition. Agreements to share basic infrastructure across an industry let all those in on ...

The rule should be simple. You can patent a mousetrap, but not the idea of catching mice. You must be ...

Once conservatives started spending the $1 coin and rejecting the bill, the bill could even be retired -- that's the ...

Asking the question in the right way is now the whole of experimental design, the answers to big questions arrive ...

Think of this as Volume 15, Number 29 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. The big ...