Monopoly or Democracy? (washingtonpost.com)

Even Ted Turner is voicing his opposition to the expected Monday’s FCC ruling that one company can own all newspaper, radio and TV stations in one area, and he is a major stock owner in one of the big 5 media companies. 

Flowers from the front yard …

This is the first time ever that I am able to pick some flowers from my little front yard to put them in a vase. Looks and feels very good. Although I am not very happy about the picture. Time for a real digital camera.

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On the way to jail …

One more reason to love Rube Waddell. Not only do they perform Mack the Knife on the sidewalks of San Francisco and the do best shows at the Odeon. But today Saturday afternoon, while other Musicians were sleeping they went to Laguna. Not the racetrack, nooo, to one of this country’s largest assisted living centers, Laguna Honda Hospital, right here in San Francisco to entertain the …

Futurist notes …

Radom notes from tlhe Salon tonight: Bill Shireman: Business Lessions from Nature– We are part of nature – As that we should look into what what rules ecology – crises also opportunities – We are not living in a real information based society, it is a by information augmented industrial society. We are still doing the mass production for a …

It was a blast …

How better to spend a Sunday afternoon as at a junk yard where some tinkerers have build race cars out of old power tools. My favorite was the one to the left. It uses an old chain saw engine and in place of an exhaust pipe he attached a trombone. It wasn’t the fastest powertool today and when it raced the engine and the people …

Check this out …

A couple of years ago I went to Fort Mason to see the final day of Robot Wars. It was all fenced off behind thick Plexiglas and everything was geared towards a TV audience. What a disappointment, but Junkyard power tool drag racing looks like people have literally skin in the game. Additional bonus points for being only a little bike ride away …