"By having a bunch of smart and creative people working on new projects, simultaneously, bashing their brains together — and not having to worry about the rent — startup accelerators give entrepreneurs a sense of shared purpose and community that has proven, like the Chelsea, wildly successful. [...] Despite their obsession with wealth, most startup accelerators don’t even come close to matching the economic impact of the Chelsea Hotel — much less its cultural impact."
I was wondering why this sort of thing (i.e. agent based systems to ambiently "find, filter, and organize the huge amounts of information now available") are not more widespread. Is this an isolated set of hacks or did the work go off in some other direction?
Have you looked at http://www.zotero.org ? it covers most of the same ground as Mendeley, browser integration is quite good and the standalone app is as good or better than Mendeley
While not "permanently off limits to foreigners", you might have difficulty travelling around parts of Tibet or Xinjiang for example without an official "guide".
Your ratio is approximately back-to-front. In 2007, the per-capita emissions for the US were 19.1 Metric tons to China's 4.6 Metric tons. http://www.iea.org/co2highlights