Influx

The latest Wired has a great piece by Matt Schwartz on what he terms "retail hacking". He describes a confluence of forces that have given rise to the emergence of consumers who will devote hours to hacking the system to get deals and how this world has been made accessible to masses of consumers...

There's a provocative piece by George Monbiot in today's Guardian, where he talks about the failure of politicians to grasp the concept that there are either higher energy costs from renewable sources or no energy at all. People are still thinking about alternative energy as alternative to oil, but...