links for 2007-09-17

• Robert Reich’s Blog: The Way to Prevent the Looming Recession
  “the Republican need to understand tax cuts for the rich won’t help because the rich don’t increase their spending when their taxes are cut. They already spend as much as they want to spend. That’s what it means to be rich.”
  (tags: via npr swhpl economics politics good quote)
• Tomboy : Simple note taking
  “Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in post-industrial Australia? Or are you one of t
  (tags: notes annotation linux csharp gnome)
• robotwisdom’s bookmarks on del.icio.us
  (tags: robotwisdom good *pda del.icio.us list interesting)
• http://del.icio.us/html/robotwisdom/?tags=yes
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• Routeabout: robotwisdom’s del.icio.us tags
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  (tags: robotwisdom del.icio.us tags)
• On Firefox 3 and microformats with Michael Kaply : Mozilla Links
  “”Microformats support is one of the most relevant features coming to Firefox 3.”"
  (tags: firefox microformat via robotwisdom)
• The Portland Company Complex
  “a nine acre industrial site with a commanding location on the eastern end of the waterfront. It was established in 1846 as a locomotive foundry to build railroad equipment for the connection between Portland and Montreal. It was a significant New England
  (tags: portland maine industry factor steel iron history interesting railroad 1800s train rail marine locomotive)
• Arcadia Publishing – local history books
  These are the folks who publish lots of books of photographs on many very local topics. Sepia covers.
  (tags: local maine photo history interesting swhpl publishing aggragate business mynote)
• The Portland Company: 1846-1982: Arcadia Publishing
  “The Portland Company commenced operations in 1846 in Portland, Maine, under the leadership of John A. Poor. It was founded primarily to manufacture railroad locomotives for the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad. The company played a major role in the econ
  (tags: railroad locomotive steel iron history portland business rail train war weapon ww2 ww1 auto truck photo interesting eclectic wishlist cast factory industry)
• Economist.com – Trapping sunlight
  “The world’s biggest solar farm, where more than 400,000 mirrors cover four square miles (10.3 square kilometres) of California’s Mojave desert, was built in the 1980s and still churns out 354 megawatts of electricity, enough for 90,000 homes. But until r
  (tags: solar energy stirling turbin power grid california)
• Sandia joins forces with Stirling Energy Systems to build, test mini power plant of six solar dish systems
  “The frame is steel made by Schuff Steel, also of Phoenix, while the mirrors, provided by Paneltec of Lafayette, Colo., are laminated onto a honeycomb aluminum structure invented and patented in the late 1990s by Sandia researcher Rich Diver (6218). The e
  (tags: stirling mirror solar energy california)
• YouTube – how its made ball bearings
  (tags: bearing how factory interesting manufacture machine cool video)
• YouTube – How Toilet Paper is Made
  (tags: how paper manufacture video factory tissue)
• The bicycle-powered supercomputer – Engadget
  “As the custom Trek bikes churned out 260-watts of power each, Dr. John Mucci — the company’s CEO — said, “Ten years ago, this analysis was impossible on even the biggest computers, and now it’s being done on a bicycle powered machine,” then added, “Ten
  (tags: swcycle bicycle energy computer)