Found this letter from Sam Farr interesting…and not just because he misspelled spinach: MOVING BEYOND THE SPINIACH CRISIS Rep. Sam Farr November, 2006 John Steinbeck called the Salinas Valley the “salad bowl of the world.” How true a description – one that can equally apply to every farming region of the Central Coast . This … Continue reading Sam Farr on the Spinach Crisis
Words of Mass Destruction. President Bush’s appointment of John Bolton to the UN has indeed created a disasterous relationship with the organization, as many predicted. Bush ignored the Senate in order to confirm Bolton perhaps because someone (Cheney and Rumsfeld) believed that the only way to right (what they saw as) the wrongs of Colin … Continue reading Bolton launches WMDs at UN
Several people from the Comoros have written me via email. I expect even the most remote areas will have some sort of Internet access within five years. This will have to be driven by knowledge-based workers receiving or transmitting data for their research, such as doctors, aid-workers, or even local entrepreneurs. On the other hand, … Continue reading Organic disposal digital cameras