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It started with a tweet.  Eddie Codel identifyed Boston’s streets as “Kafkaesque.”  I witnessed it on Wikipedia (it implies disorientating ), on with a listing of other name-revolutionized words. One hitched my eye: Machiavellianism. The first line of the Wikipedia entry:

Machiavellianism is the term that some societal and personality psychologists utilize to key out a person’s tendency to delude and keep in line others for personal gain.
It comes from Niccolò Machiavelli , a Renaissance writer, diplomat, etc. cognised, in part, for principles of conduct that are marked by cunning, duplicity and tough faith. His most renowned work is The Prince.

Upon a bit more investigation, I discovered that there is a personality test named a MACH-IV test that guesss a person’s Machiavellianism.  Patently there are “mellow machs” (probable to agree with Machiavelli) and “low machs” (improbable to concord). Most people are in the middle (I’m a lowly mach).  Read the 20-question test hither.

When I for the first time read about all of this, I couldn’t help but entertain the spammers and blackhats of the web.  Away from the trash that they grow, I’m fascinated by the people behind the spam.  Who are these people?  How did they catch this way?  What moves them out of doors of money? Do they cognize right from incorrect? How can they free their decisions?

Viewed with a Machiavellian lens, I fancy spammers a little other than. It haves me question if spammers are born vs. stimulated. Perchance this is the source of my fascination - that spammers aren’t just unethical, but maybe a bit genial. An insightful article in Salon has this quote:

What can enter a drawing a light-green building green is variegated and complex; therefore, in fact, the LEED standard, which despite its accolades, some have knocked as weighted and in need of update. Disregardless, there are legion things that can cook light-green green–materials, techniques, energy sources, all of these can work on unitedly to scale down the carbon footprint of a home or building and make for a more sustainable structure. One of the missed options is that of automation. Or, kind of, most folks don'’t think of automation beyond their programmable thermostat, if they think of it at all. Building automation bes given to go a little too much like something from The Jetsons, and for the most part out of reach of the mediocre home or business owner–what with permeative robotic assistants being stock-still beyond the ability of the marketplace to bring out and deploy. But it sure does not have to be quite that sophisiticated to be efficient, particularly in terms of geting to the most effective use of energy. And that affords the door for advanced energy management automation solutions. Being capable to take this kind of autmoation opens up up options for facilities managers, as comfortably as recognising the exchanging nature of business today. For example, a friend campaigns an IT business out of a big office building in Detroit. The building, to redeem energy, twists off the heat after 6pm, but my friend observes a computer programmer’s hours, which is to suppose: extremely irregula (more…)

Written by Sharon Troy, courtesy of Eat.Drink in.Better. With Memorial Day Weekend just now legislated and the 4th of July just now around the corner, millions of people will be opening fire up their grills to fete our American past times. Hither are some ready tips to holding back your barbecue safe, waste-gratis, and fun! 1. What’s the dark-greenest grilling option? Electrical […]

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The Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Perry Building will be home to art restoration firm SurroundArt once it opens up up this summer. Interiors for the 89,000-square-foot space, which is aiming for a LEED Silver under USGBC’s Core and Shell program, were designed by Steven Kratchman Architect, while the exterior of the building is being executed by Stantec. (Check into out our late posts on the Perry Building for more details on both the project and SurroundArt.) Last week, though, Stantec denoted some details on the project’s renewable energy features, which will admit a photovoltaic and wind power pilot program. The firm is partnering with Home Grid Energy Services in order to instal a number of solar panels and wind turbines on the Perry Building’s roof. The system will- at least ab initio- dish out just now the Perry Building and be tied to its independent electric equipment. Stantec is a publically-swaped, 9000-employee, 125-office design firm that is presently engaged in a number of other renewable energy projects (including some big wind farms) across the U.S. Other greenish features at the Perry Building let in an effective building envelope, arid urinals, a graywater system, and a number of recled-content construction materials. SurroundArt will make up close to $20 per straight foot for the space. The firm will at long last throw space across three unlike Navy Yard buildings and make what it calls off a Museum Resource Center, subleasing a portion to at least five more tenants that besides ply like art-interrelated services, which range from temperature-controlled storage to loading down, transportation, and exhibit design, fabrication, and installatio (more…)

Put a resolution to progress to those a great deal involved energy-effective home upgrades but haven’t caught about to it thus far? And did you live that improperly billowed tires increase emissions and shrink fuel economy up to now 70% of Vancouverites do not have in good order billowed tires?

So many questions - catch them resolved this Thursday and Friday through two 30 Days events. For the first time, lead out to ascertain light-green remodelling 101 and go experiencing lighter on the earth (at home) with guest speaker Dan from Greenworks Building Supply and others in the 30 Days of Sustainability Café: Dark-green Home - How to Name Your Home Green.

GreenWorks Building Supply was founded by Vancouver-held, SFU alumni Pete McGee and Alastair Moore in later 2006.

Pete returned from business in the US and Alastair from instructing sustainable development in Europe to reveal that Vancouver didn’t have a source for dark-green building materials.

GreenWorks Building Supply opened up to offer up homeowners a one-stop shop for environmentally well-disposed building materials. Modeled on dark-green building centers that have bourgeoned up across the US over the last decade, GreenWorks’ goal is to offer its customers in Vancouver and across Canada the betterest options for making salubrious, beautiful spaces –within and outside the home.

So, this Friday, unload in to con how to the right way blow up your ain tires. Drive off with gas savings and the knowledge that this mere step gets a heavy difference to the environment and your wallet.

Brought back you by 30 Days.

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One of the expectantest roadblocks in the way of light-green building initiatives is lack of education–ignorance, to couch it more roundly. This past weekend, I took up work on stoping a bedroom and an office in the depressed level of my house, and honestly, I couldn’t assure you the first thing about what I call for to do to draw my work more dark-green. I live generic tips, like applying best insulation, and more effective lighting, but beyond that? Clueless. Not because I desire to be, but only for a lack of information and education. That’s why the External SEMATECH Fabricating Initiative’s (ISMI) late offering of a course with the US Dark-green Building Council is such an authoritative step forrad. Awarded, the course is limited in scope, but it’s besides decisive free-based on who ISMI’s component members are: IBM, Intel, AMD, Hewlett-Packard, and so on. Prompting these folks to tune up their buildings and facilities into the light-green-and-uncontaminating way of coming things is decisive for sustainable information technology down the road. I cited this earlier, of course, with regards to Intel and Google’s landmark partnership to shrink the energy footprint of the IT industry in world-wide and their end products specifically. But, as any law-abiding student of cleantech cognizes, it’s not simply how effective or sustainable something is while in operation, sustainability likewise looks on how it was built up, including all the foreign bits of uneconomical processes and practices along the wa (more…)

The so bidden debate that Vision Vancouver declared Wednesday to showcase the three candidates runing for its mayoral nomination was not just a knock down drag out series of fisticuffs. Neither Raymond Louie , Gregor Robertson nor Al De Genova were bing adrift like butterflies or burning like bees (although it must be avered that Gregor made it a comme il faut try). Or else, they transmuted the evening into a practical love-in, writing all their betterest shots for Sam Sullivan.

Much more interesting is what is runing on behind the scenes…

Vision has visited as many as 11,000 Modern members bless up by the May 15th deadline so they can be eligible to vote in its June 15th nomination election. Such an explosion of other interest and participation is a singular development and indicates that this fall’s municipal election is probable to be a barn burner.

The candidates struck Sullivan severely on issues such as low-priced housing, the dispossessed, transportation, taxes, crime and the city’s commitment to being a leader in sustainable urban planning. Whomever gains this November will preside over the city during the 2010 festivities and the world media circus awaited to convoke.

As common, The Tyee had the betterest coverage of the "debate" and with lots of other election analysis, is the place to stick around tuned up to.

Most interesting is Peter Ladner’s foresighted shot opposition to Sullivan in the NPA. He has been excluded down in his attempts to pay off the Mayor to fence him before the NPA’s ain nomination election to be held the line June 8th.

And we have until now to hear from COPE which meets on June 1st. Would they indorse the Vision candidate this fall?

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Well, as of today it has been incisively one year since all this video craziness commenced.  On April 22, 2007 we printed RSS in Plain English.  We ne’er hazarded these videos would lead us so far - it was exactly a problem that prayed to be worked.  Did you always visit a blog post with the same name from 2004 ?

Since our work is in front of people oftentimes, we both sense a small self conscious in talking about the numbers behind the videos. We don'’t want to seem ostentatious or too self-promotional.  But, at the same time, I think that exposing some of the figures provides context and hopefully examples of the power of Social Media.

So, let’s take a look.

First, please note that the #s of views are rounded and cumulative across hosts. A single video exists in multiple places and those views are added together unitedly.  These numbers comes from our accounts on You Tube , Blip.tv and dotSUB.  We habituate other hosts, but these are our core.

Totals April 2007-April 2008: 

Total views (including client work):  3.9 million views
Total views (excluding client work): 2.4 million views

Most regarded Client Video: Google Maps for Mobile 834,000 views (lets in UK version )

Most considered Show Video: RSS in Plain English : 755,000 views

Breakdown of Views by Video (Usual Craft Show solely):

RSS: 755,000
Wiki: 436,000
Societal Networking: 207,000
Societal Bookmarking: 205,000
CFL Lightbulbs: 53,000
Zombies: 280,000
Blogs: 169,000
Photo Sharing: 42,000
Twitter: 223,000
Podcasting: 5,000 (written 2 days ago)

Breakdown of views by host (Show alone):

You Tube: 1.3 million views
Blip.tv (embedded on our site):  772,000
dotSUB: 300,000