Blog of Josh Hall

The Biolite stoves are game changers. There are 2 different stoves being made right now.  One is a stove that is used for camping and one is being used as a solution for cooking in poor countries.  Both of these products are amazing. They’re clean, safe, and cheap.  They produce electricity to charge or power […]

Corporations are not people. Corporations are run by people.  They are not individuals and should not be entitled to any rights, privileges, or opportunities that would supersede or even equal the rights of actual people.  

I don’t want a house full of gadgets, but I do want some cool conversation pieces that set it apart from other houses. I definitely want a pool table.  this would be great – http://www.obscuradigital.com/products/detail/cuelight/  It’s a computer based effect that tracks pool ball movement across the table.  You’ve probably seen this technology before.  I […]

Well, the nice thing about global warming is that they found a wooly mammoth pretty much intact in Russia somewhere.  Some scientists say they’ll have a cloned version in 5-10 years…scary, huh? http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-cloned-111205.html

People’s willingness to pay a price defines market price, and that line is always being tested. This is probably more of an obvious one, but the social implications are severe, in my opinion.  There are two evils at play here.  The first, a common negotiation strategy is to ask for twice of what you really […]

How do you feel about thank you cards?  We’ve certainly started to use technology in a lot of new ways, but thank you cards are still the same old tradition that our grandmother’s did when they were our age.  Is that a good thing?   [poll id=24]