The phrase double bottom line refers to having a bottom line besides just profit.

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• small group dialogs are best, too many people on one problem ends in voting/groupthink
• build a system that supports bees and and handles wasps (my verbage)

“Free as in Freedom” is a really important concept. That is, technology really as to be free in some important ways if people are to have political freedom.

- Eben Moglen, speaking on the GPL version 3 during FLOSS Weekly interview.

I was thinking about updating my broken Google Maps biodiesel stations mashup, but balked since someone over at Brevard created a much more complete map! It includes stations all over the United States using data from biodiesel.org.

A cursory perusal of their blog yielded interesting posts on Honda plans for selling new diesels (instead of hybrids) and problems/FUD regarding palm oil.

Out of pure sport, I decided to try the camera on a Fedora Core 6 laptop. I noticed the hard drive activity light flickering, then in a second or two a window popped up to let me know that a camera had been plugged in and would I like to download some photos?

Well yes, in fact, I would!

What, no recompiling the kernel? No surfing message board flamewars for secret modprobe arguments? No trolling mailing lists until I find the right Hungarian genius kid that can lead me to camera nirvana? What is the world coming to?

That, and utterly useless but completely irresistible desktop effects!

I’m glad I could do my little part in this viral marketing campaign.

But who cares? You don’t have to wait to get an electric commuter vehicle, you can pick one out right now!

When an employee exercises an option to buy stock, the difference between the strike price (what the employee pays) and the market price (which is almost always higher) becomes taxable income for the employee and a tax deduction for the employer.

Why should the company get to write off the difference? Presumably because they shared the profit with the employee.

As much as the media wants it to be true, Christian Koch doesn’t make biodiesel with dead cats. Not that it matters–as someone on Slashdot wrote–we’ve been using dead animals to run cars for years.

Quoted:

A spokesman for Bild told Reuters the story was meant to show that cat remains could “in theory” be used to make fuel with Koch’s patented method.

This topic is also elsewhere in the blogsphere.

Slashdot has also covered this story, with some pretty hilarious comments resulting, like: “How about fuel from dog farts? I know a Labrador Retriever who could probably fuel a moped with his daily output.”