When in the jungle...

A new study about how to survive, quite easily, a fall into quicksand:

Quicksand HOW-TO

Dr. Watt-son, I presume

The day in articles. OK, so a couple of things happened this weekend. The first, and highly interesting to only the geekiest of the lot is the new GPS satellite that went up:

GPS ARTICLE

The second, and more interesting to a larger base of bikers (you know who you are) is this article about hubs that measure your true power output while bicycling:

WATT ARTICLE

Amazing....

You know what I think of statistics...Damned lies I say! These liberal, anti-American, socialist, treehugging environmentalists would have you believe that some piece of snow in Alaska is more important than being able to drive my SUV home at 80mph so I can sit infront of the TV with the air conditioner on all night! If I want snow I'll drive my 4X4 up to the hills and do doughnuts (God Save the Queen) until I get tired and have to stop by the Starbucks on the way to the gas station!

Good thing I only had one cup of coffee today JEEEZ, WTF got into me there? I tell you it's that right wing bottled water they have us drinking. Not pure....spoils my essence.

OK, so here's some data from the Apollo Alliance, which you have to check out:
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The United States has less than 3% of the world’s oil reserves, but accounts for more than 25% of global demand
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The U.S. consumed 96.95 quadrillion Btus of energy in 2001, almost three times as much as the runner up (China with 36.67 quad), and approximately 25% of the world total.
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2.7 million private sector jobs have been lost since January 2001, and more than 75% of those jobs have been high wage, high productivity manufacturing jobs.
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Cities and their mega-regions face nearly $2 trillion of neglected infrastructure needs according to the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Department of Energy.
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Every $1 Billion invested into public transportation supports 47,500 jobs.
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Congestion cost American commuters 4.5 billion hours of delay, 6.8 billion gallons of wasted fuel, and $78 billion in 1999, and the problem is getting worse.
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In the US, water and wastewater annually consume 75 billion kWh — 3 percent of the total consumption of electricity or equal to the total electricity consumed by the pulp and paper and petroleum sectors.
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Buildings consume more than a third of US energy, and the average home produces more pollution than the average car.
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Energy efficient buildings and appliances have higher labor content than traditional technologies, replacing wasted energy with high skill jobs.
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DOE estimates that standards on clothes washers, water heaters, and fluorescent lamp ballasts will create 120,000 jobs through 2020.
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Development of only 10% of the wind potential in the 10 windiest cities would provide enough capacity to reduce total U.S. carbon emissions by a third.
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Renewable power production is labor intensive - wind power creates 2.77 jobs for every MW produced, Solar PV creates 7.24 jobs per MW, and geothermal creates 5.67 jobs per MW.
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In the 1980s the US had an 80 percent share of the photo voltaic market; today we have 25%.

This group is quite impressive. Please click on the link below to learn more:

LINK

Biodiesel Blog

Biodiesel Blog

Anybody want to start a new school?

Got $200,000?
School for sale

George Bush HAS TO GO!

Really. I can't believe I missed this on Friday...must have been the beer and BBQ.

HALLPASS

Yeah, more water

I believe this picture of our "commander in chief" looking down on the flooding in the south sums up his entire tenure: looking at reality from such a great distance that there is no hope for him to connect, understand, or affect anything either here or abroad. Does anyone out there still believe he's actually in charge?

OK, enough of my ranting, here is a link to some pictures from the hurricane, that show a lot of military bases and personnel. My friend Barry was stationed at Keesler in Biloxi last year and is quite glad he was back in Cali this year. He sent me this:

Storm Photos

Cheers,
Bill

It's a good thing I never grew up

because this program is sweeeeeet!
Legos Not Bombs!


Lego's new 3D modeling program

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Questions?

Social Darwinism and America

I found the following article from the BBC rather interesting. It delves into the history of social darwinism in the US, and its effects on the modern climate, relative to the troubles in New Orleans.

BBC ARTICLE

Get on the wagon

Alright, so I am becoming more and more aware of the wound that is the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. There are massive failures from all sides. The core aspect of a government, it's basic foundation, is to be able to protect it's people. Ours cannot, and is not. This should be extremely alarming to people. What should be apparent is the cause, and that is the leader. I just can't see how people can be fooled anymore into thinking that our president is capable of leading this country. I suggest viewing some of the videos on this website for humor, pain, and logic...all of which sits squarely on the premise that America has been led astray.

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