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Environment Legal, Laws, and Regs

Third party

I can agree understand why this Springfield Newspaper opinion piece suggests we need to bring in a third party to negotiate with Ameren, but I disagree with much of what was written. We can’t leave aside that Ameren is a multi-billion dollar agency that put profits ahead of safety. It is not a Mom and Pop organization, […]

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Environment Events of note Photography

A year in the life of Johnson’s Shut-Ins

One year ago, a billion gallons of water poured down a mountain, scraped away the dirt, the trees, the rocks, and any living thing in a flood of mud and debris. It landed at the entrance to Johnson’s Shut-Ins, slammed into the hill on one end of the park, swirled around taking away every last […]

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Stuff

The mushroom people

Warning: some spoilers I rented Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People and I can comfortably say it is the oddest movie I have ever seen. Directed by the father of all the Godzilla movies, Ishirô Honda, the story is about a group of city people out for a yacht ride who get caught in strange weather […]

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Energy Users Environment

The 2006 “Wish I could drop them off a cliff” award winner

Whatever the feeling nationally, locally there’s one clear winner of the “Wish I could drop ’em off a cliff” award here in Missouri, and that’s Ameren. I imagine that most of us would probably vote 2, 3, or more times for Ameren in this category, if we could. Black River News points to a terrific editorial […]

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JavaScript

Same under the skin

The Web Standards Project points to a post, Dear JavaScript Library Developers by Chris Heilmann, which makes some excellent points about the difficulties in using today’s JS libraries. In particular, I want to point out Chris’ last point: Don’t play the “mine is smaller than yours” card. It gives the wrong impression to new developers as they might be […]