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Interesting concept: high rise farming complexes in the middle of urban areas. Link [http://www.verticalfarm.com/]. Excerpt: > The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new

Russia needs lots of small businesses to open shop. Unfortunately, small businesses are opened by people without much money who can't afford to pay a lot of legal fees to figure out bureaucratic nightmares. But that's the situation in Russia. A maze of regulation is strangling

Get Religion has a good short piece that gives an example of the gay marriage opponents talking past each other. It discusses an 8,000-word pro-gay article in The New York Times Magazine by Russell Shorto. Link [http://www.getreligion.org/?p=868]. Excerpt: > Shorto writes, for example: >

> Amended Section 2257 recordkeeping regulations [went] into effect at midnight [Wednesday] tonight. The federal law requires website owners to keep records documenting, among other things, that "every performer portrayed in a visual depiction of actual sexually explicit conduct" is over the age of 18. . . > Section 2257

This is interesting. We haven't taken a position on the .XXX domain, but we were inclined to approve of it since the First Amendment Absolutists tend to disapprove of it (they fear that sites will be forced to register as .XXX, even though the sites themselves don'

As mentioned yesterday, blogging will be light today. It's the 27th Annual Scheske Open. Eric Scheske has been beckoned to the golf course for his annual battle with the capital sin of anger. There will be a few breaks during the post-golf festivities, but just a few.

> Gene Ford, 77, a wine writer and educator who wrote extensively about the health benefits of moderate drinking, died June 10 of complications from heart surgery at a hospital in Seattle. Link [http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings22.2jun22,0,5699554.story?coll=la-home-obituaries] . Eric Scheske will drink

Nice piece about the floundering United Nations. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul257.html]. This excerpt pretty much sums up the problem: > Many conservatives have bought into the neoconservative dream of using the UN as a tool to advance an aggressive US foreign policy. But granting more power

We try to keep readers abreast of blog trends, so we bring you this: The professional cheerleaders blog. Link [http://nflcheerleader.blogspot.com/]. Edifying excerpt: > Meanwhile, the Ben-Gals are working on their 2006 calendar and recently wrapped up their annual uniform shoot. We're in for a great

According to this disconcerting article [http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7822]: Millions are dying in Asia and Africa due to malaria, which is spread by mosquitoes. DDT cheaply and effectively kills mosquitoes, and allegations of its dangerousness are exaggerated or unfounded, yet we're prevented from using