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2059: FutureCoast [#geekgirl]

[Image Via Fast Company]

The emotional tenor and imagination of the messages range widely, but the futures aren’t actually that far off. In the FutureCoast world, voice messages are leaking into the present day from futures between 2020 and 2065. And some, like the disappearance of certain flora and fauna, mass political unrest, and water shortages, are incredibly realistic–just go and read the latest IPCC report.”

“One day we came in and they had started milking themselves.” [#geekgirl]

[From this NYTimes article] ““It just clicked,” said Susan Borden, Tom Borden’s 24-year-old daughter. “One day we came in and they had started milking themselves.”

Sure enough, on a recent Friday, the Bordens stood watch as cows lined up in front of the closet-size devices; each quietly allowed the machine to wash and scan its underbelly with lasers before attaching mechanical milk cups.

The cows ate the whole time, then moved along when the machine was finished. Nearby, another new device, a Roomba-style robot, pushed feed toward cows who lounged in a pen or lay on straw mats.

“We’re the most disruptive thing in here,” Mr. Borden said.”

“If it can’t…” [#geekgirl]

[Via The Australian Organic Directory/Green-4-U.com]]

Should You Whip It? [#geekgirl]

[Via Facebook: Author = JT]

“Open source comes to farms with restriction-free seeds” [#geekgirl]

[From an article at arstechnica.com] “There are now 29 kinds of plant varieties that are available under an open source license, reports NPR. On Thursday, a group of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison debuted the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI), a set of seeds that can be used by anyone so long as they don’t restrict use by others through patents or IP protection.

The initiative is one answer to the heated battle between farmers and companies like Monsanto, which holds patents on plants that have features like resistance to certain herbicides or seeds that produce slightly different plants if they are resown from a first-generation crop. Soybeans in particular have been a point of contention, with both organic farmers who want to keep Monsanto’s products out of their farms and commercial farmers who want the right to multiple generations from one soybean seed purchase.”

Aussie Female Game Developer Stats [#geekgirl]

[Via Debi Taylor at Aussie Game Developer Census]

“Your Guide to a Palm Oil Free Easter…” [#geekgirl]

[Logo Via Palm Oil Free Products]

In Australia it’s not a legal requirement for brands to state whether or not they use palm oil, which makes it an overwhelming task to separate the bad from the good. One very simple trick to avoid palm oil is: EAT WHOLEFOODS. It’d be very hard to sneak palm oil into a banana, carrot, avocado or bunch of fresh leeks, so this is an easy way to avoid palm oil at all costs.

However, on the occasion when chocolate really is the only cure, here are a few major brands that are safe to buy this Easter:

• - Haigh’s Chocolate
• - Koko Black
• - Whittaker’s
• - Lindt & Sprungli – Lindt Excellence and Lindt Creation chocolate blocks (Note that filled products such as Lindor do contain palm oil)
• - Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate blocks – Dairy Milk, Old Gold, Dream
• - Cadbury Green & Black’s chocolate blocks (except Butterscotch; Raisin & Hazelnut)
• - Aldi Stores: Choceur, Just Organics, Moser-Roth…”

Have you hugged your chicken today? [#geekgirl]

[Via Reddit]

Couldn’t Help Myself…[#geekgirl]

BREAKING: Barry O’Farrell cannot be contacted by press. Apparently his phone has gone out of grange #grangegate

— Bert Goldsmith (@BertMaverick) April 16, 2014

“A Rescue Dog and Her Little Boy…” [#geekgirl]

[Zoey and Jasper]