[UFO Chicago] Meeting Followup

[Neil R. Ormos]

1.  Smart Meters

    Apropos of our discussion, here's an
    interesting video presentation on Youtube
    about smart meters and their privacy risks.

      <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNFr_j6kdI>

    Those interested in smart meters may be
    interested in a pair of free e-mail
    newsletters, Fierce Energy and Fierce Smart
    Grid, that frequently cover the business and
    regulatory aspects of smart meter and smart
    grid deployments.

      <http://www.fierceenergy.com/offer/signup_web>

      <http://www.fiercesmartgrid.com/offer/signup_web>

2.  Keith Tantlinger, inventor of the stackable
    shipping container that revolutionized the
    transportation of goods, died last week.

      <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/business/keith-tantlinger-builder-of-cargo-container-dies-at-92.html>

    A brief interview with Marc Levinson on NPR's
    Talk of the Nation discussed Tantlinger and
    the container.

      <http://www.npr.org/2011/09/07/140256967/shipping-container-inventor-transformed-world-trade>

    Levinson is the author of "The Box: How the
    Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and
    the World Economy Bigger".

      <http://www.worldcat.org/title/box-how-the-shipping-container-made-the-world-smaller-and-the-world-economy-bigger/oclc/62161116>

3.  Another Book by Marc Levinson:

    The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small
    Business in America

      <http://www.worldcat.org/title/great-ap-and-the-struggle-for-small-business-in-america/oclc/700205696>

    An excellent interview of Levinson on WHYY's
    Fresh Air with Terry Gross:

      <http://www.npr.org/2011/08/23/139761274/how-the-a-p-changed-the-way-we-shop>

4.  The Book about how mega-farming made tomatoes
    taste like cardboard...

    Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture
    Destroyed our Most Alluring Fruit

    ... was actually written by Barry Estabrook; I
    had erroneously attributed it to Marc
    Levinson.

      <http://www.worldcat.org/title/tomatoland-how-modern-industrial-agriculture-destroyed-our-most-alluring-fruit/oclc/687675277>

    Another excellent interview on WHYY's Fresh
    Air with Terry Gross:

      <http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137371975/how-industrial-farming-destroyed-the-tasty-tomato>