Clean coal is a dirty lie/Il carbone pulito è una sporca bugia

(EN) Clean coal debate is getting hot especially because Al Gore and Obama this time are not on the same side.  Nowadays the fuel provides half of U.S. electricity but also 30 percent of the greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to global warming.  Coal-power lobby is very powerful in Washington and they decided to invest $300 million over 3 years to convince the population that Clean Coal Technology is going to solve  the environmental impact problems of coal (did you know that 1 gram of mercury can pollute and entire lake and coal plants in USA produce 50 tons every year?). I already showed you a campaign trying to fight this gigantic propaganda and now  it’s time for a new one called: The dirty lie. It’s new retro style! And here’s a pie on global distribution of electricity from coal in 2009: ————————— (IT) Il dibattito sul carbone pulito si sta scaldando specialmente perchè Al Gore e Obama non sono schierati

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Piracy is not theft / La pirateria non è furto

Norwegian political party Rødt started a campaign called “This is what a criminal looks like” to challenge the notion that file sharing is a crime in support of the Pirate Bay trial started on Monday . The message is simple “File-sharing is good, allowing people to share music, movies and culture” and if you call file-sharers criminal, it means we are all criminals. And they invite people to upload their own picture. Since the beginning , movie and music industry based their campaigns on the wrong concept that copying is like stealing (remember:  I wouldn’t steal a car ?), confusing two different concepts: It’s clear that they won’t be able to stop technological innovation and development by force, and if they keep hiding themselves that we are witnessing a paradigm shift they are only  wasting time that could be used to develop  a new kind of business model. ———————- (IT) Il partito norvegese di sinistra Rødt ha lanciato la campagna

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30 ways to electrocute / 30 modi per fulminarsi

(EN) Bre Pettis took pictures of these fascinating illustrations in Elektroschutz book from the ’30, found at the Technisches museum in Vienna. It’s good to know how dangerous can be taking  a bath or peeing around! (IT) Bre Pettis ha scattato le foto di queste insolite illustrazioni  da Elektroschutz,  un libro pubblicato negli anni ’30 e trovato al Technisches museum di Vienna. E’ utile sapere quanto può essere pericoloso fare un bagno o pisciare in giro!

Jobs losses: confronting recessions / Disoccupazione: recessioni a confronto

(EN) Flowing Data made a cool post collecting some comparative graphics about  USA jobs losses in recent recessions. So dont be shy to react like this: (IT) Flowing Data ha pubblicato recentemente una piccola collezione di grafici che comparano la perdita di lavoro USA nelle ultime recessioni. Il risultato d’insieme non è molto confortante, quindi non essere timid* e prenditi il tuo tempo per entrare in panico.