Tag: january

March 2, 2013 0

Bright horn

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

January 30, 2013 0

Dr. Denial’s Kids Do Kickstarter

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

January 11, 2013 0

Crowded crowd-funding for solar projects

By News Desk

Crowded crowd-funding for solar projects On Monday, Mosaic announced it would do the first-ever crowd-funding of solar projects , with a $25 minimum investment.  Yesterday I tried to buy in myself but their four new projects are fully funded .  They look like they might be having the same problem that Kiva used to have – more money than projects (it also seems like a different model than Kiva, the money goes directly to the projects rather than paying for a general fund)