http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ en-us brianATATATbrian-fitzgerald.net 2006-04-22T09:28:50+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000027.html If you are pulling this blog via RSS, you need to switch to one of the feeds at my new site: http://blog.brian-fitzgerald.net/... 27@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-04-22T09:28:50+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000026.html McNuggest or Monkeys? The clown is evil. 26@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ Activism 2006-04-08T08:56:05+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000025.html Boing Boing is featuring a great audience-funded piece of feature journalism here from Josh Ellis: "Dark Miracle: Trinity, the Manhattan Project, and the Birth of the Atomic Age." He asked folks to pay for his trip to Alamagordo on one... 25@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-04-07T07:22:39+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000024.html My 7-year-young son is up with the birds, and his Dad, this morning. He's at the PC next to me, googling Pokemon and endlessly asking when I'll be done so I can tell him a Pokemon story. (Which is actually... 24@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-04-06T06:36:12+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000023.html Top topic today in the Attack of the killer Tahoe Ads story (which is now officially mainstream: New York Times, NPR, Nightline, and, of course, all over the blogosphere.) Network-Centric Advocacy has a nice post about how advertisers are trying... 23@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-04-05T06:07:41+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000022.html Dang. I've used up the morning blog time I have (between 6-6:30- when I rise to 7:50 when I need to get my son Packed off to school) posting over at WorldChanging. I'll cross post what I said over there... 22@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-04-04T07:41:08+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000021.html Martha and Doon in MY idea of a sports utility vehicle Woo hoo... the Chevy Apprentice anti-ad campaign crosses over into "the news." Here's an article from CNET. Calls to Chevy for comment were not returned. I bet. At the... 21@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-04-03T07:39:48+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000020.html Ahhhhh. Every now and then you just have to take a moment and give thanks for the stupidity of your adversary. Chevrolet is introducing a brand new, gas-guzzling Tahoe SUV which gets "an amazing 20 mpg." Yep, in an era... 20@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-03-30T21:29:30+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000019.html Grateful Child is a self-described elderly hippy living in Connecticut who pings all of us at Greenpeace with love every now and again. He sends encouraging messages when we save whales. He made up mugs and mousemats for the web... 19@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-03-30T06:48:02+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000018.html Exxon's profits last year were bigger than the annual budgets of 123 countries. Countries are, in theory, accountable for their dirty tricks. Fat cat corporates like Exxon can simply buy the democratic process. 18@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-03-29T06:43:34+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000017.html The geopoltics of this particular crisis may be complicated, but the big picture answer is simple. A fissile materials ban for all. We have a choice: a world where there's a nuclear weapon for every man, woman and child on the planet, or one where they're 100% prohibited. No nukes. Period. Now, how do we get 30 million people out in the streets to say that with one voice????? 17@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-03-28T06:02:25+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000016.html If you love a good rant (and who doesn't love a good rant?) check out the podcasts from Max and Stacy of Karmabanque. I wrote a profile on this "Bonny and Clyde" of Karmabanque some time ago, and in... 16@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-03-27T06:20:33+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000015.html "Somebody ought to build an application that lets people visualize precisely what a 2 meter sea level rise might mean" we said a few years ago around the Organic Water Cooler at Greenpeace International in Amsterdam as the latest... 15@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-03-22T22:07:06+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000014.html I enthuse to Martin Lloyd in the office about my experience at the South By Southwest conference, and he responds with "so what will you do differently as a result." This is a man schooled in the "verb the noun... 14@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-03-22T07:46:35+01:00 http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/archive/000013.html Elizabeth Kolbert is becoming the New Yorker writer I most dread reading. In the most recent issue she describes the findings of a pair of satellites, nicknamed Tom and Jerry, which have been chasing each other around the planet for... 13@http://WWW.brian-fitzgerald.net/blog/ 2006-03-21T06:53:31+01:00