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350 Is The Upper Limit
"If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted... CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm." Jim Hansen, NASA

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WTF is RSS?

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Just what is RSS? It’s what gets me what I want, when what I want is more information. And face it, that’s every waking moment, isn’t it? I’ve been meaning to write a short bit about this for awhile now, and frankly, have been so busy that I just neglected it. I apologize. This is something you really need, if you don’t have it already.

RSS is generally considered to mean “Really Simple Syndication”. It gives you a way to automatically search your favorite news sites and blogs for whatever is new, saving you the time of looking all over the web for what you know is there. I’ve been using it for a couple of years now, and I couldn’t get by without it. There are over 200 individual RSS feeds that I keep up with, representing such diverse areas as poetry, science news, world news, web and tech news, and blogs from around the world. There is simply no way I can keep up with all that by visiting the sites individually. RSS keeps it all available, showing at a glance when something new or pertinent has been published on the web.

Daniela Barbosa, who authors one of the blogs I follow, recently posted the following video on RSS.(Thanks for reminding me, Daniela!) I have to take a moment here to compliment the guys who created the video. Those guys at CommonCraft are video masters. This is perhaps the best explanation of RSS I have seen. Enjoy…