ARTEFACTO » Other http://www.artefactoblog.com A PLACE WHERE TO START - By Adrian Palacios Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:30:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 In Context http://www.artefactoblog.com/2010/01/04/in-context/ http://www.artefactoblog.com/2010/01/04/in-context/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:22:54 +0000 Adrian http://www.artefactoblog.com/?p=679 climate_consensus_550_3

Again and again the question keeps coming back to me. Is climate change a product of human activities, or a product of human marketing?. My answer is always the same, I have no idea, but I somehow have a strong tendency to the first option. We know science is not a democracy, but let the climatologist do their best and shed some light at the matter.

Via: informationisbeautiful.com

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This New Year Resolution Generator will help you in case your imagination / needs / will are not at their best.

Via doggle.com

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]]> http://www.artefactoblog.com/2009/12/27/question/feed/ 1 No ice please. http://www.artefactoblog.com/2009/12/26/no-ice-please/ http://www.artefactoblog.com/2009/12/26/no-ice-please/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:14:19 +0000 Adrian http://www.artefactoblog.com/?p=667 Climate change?, I don't know. Lack of common sense? I'm sure. Somehow people don't remember from one year to the next one how dangerous driving on ice is. If not for yourself, please do it for the body of my car that will be parked as long as a bit of ice remains.

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As a joke note that called my attention here goes a good example of  'not so good' engineering. It turns out that the incandescent light bulbs used until now in traffic lights were not that inefficient and had a pretty unknown side function. In several cold weather American States it has been reported that the new, more efficient, LED lights installed are not producing enough heat to melt the snow that accumulates on them, resulting in an increase on traffic accidents.

Via: treeugger.com

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When we talk about carbon footprint is not always clear what we mean by it. Carbon.to is a sleek web application that lets you compare CO2 emissions from actions in our everyday's life.

Via: Microsiervos

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"XXXXXXX": this is what the parking enforcing officers enter in their system when the vehicle license plate is not visible. The problem arises when you decide to customize your plate to match these "magic numbers", in this case all the parking tickets for all those people with dodgy plates will get sent to you. The result: $19.000 in fines.

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Nowthatsnifty has a collection of what they call "Not so nifty inventions".

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The video has come technical explanations but further information can be found in the official papaer.

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