Check out this site... this company has been refining (pun intended) their process for several years now, and they seem to be getting it really straight. I think I first heard about them in Wired a couple years ago... their process seems similar to Clean Energy Products/Green Power Inc. Take a peep.

http://www.changingworldtech.com/index.asp

Just imagine how quickly we could have real energy independence, if the government would actually fund some of this research.

Did anyone else feel sorry for Jeremijenko's children after reading the article? I know I did. The bizarre names, the life in chaos, the mother with far more ego than talent, the father who puts up with this madness.

Why must people beat up on those with unusual names? I learned a harsh lesson myself when my kids, John and Mary, came home from school crying because the other kids were constantly teasing them for their strange monikers. In retrospect, both myself and my wife, Polymorphic Jurisprudence Halflife Kickstarter Xenocentrification Flashlight (nee Petulant) should have given them more conventional first names.

“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.”

(cribbed from Cory Doctorow's Creative Commons licence notice)

Dude, there's an easy solution. You're miserable because Sandy Eggroll is BORING. Move on up to L.A., and you'll find all the groovy things about California that brought you out here, but with the added attraction of real urban grit and chaos (when you want it). Better yet, move to Hollywood... the Boulevard is like a sunstroked version of Times Square, you can get a decent slice at Greco's Pizza, and we've even got a subway. Hell, the Dodgers didn't go to SD, they knew better. There's loads of New Yawkers here, and I think you'll find that there's a decent compromise between the aspects of NY you're missing, and the vacuous, empty-headed California you're experiencing. L.A.'s pretty cool, trust. I've been here almost five years from Back East, and it takes that long to get used to it (if one ever really does). The hardest part is getting through the first year or so. Get past that, and you'll start to wonder why it took so long to move out here. Luck, and hang in there.

alright... I'll add to the chorus here: I personally quite enjoyed the digest of celebridiocy and pfluff that The Fix offered... in a way, it seemed to temper all the seriousness of the rest of Salon. In fact, I read Salon much like a print newspaper: First, the funnies (esp. Carol Lay and Keef!), then, the fluff (Fix), before scanning the wire reports (anyone else notice how BADLY some of these are written?! Shame, AP!), then moving on to the meat-n-potatoes features. Saving King Kaufman for a wind-down afterward. What I'll miss most about the Fix though, is that, like Heather Havrilesky's reporting on "reality" TV, it gives me the gist of the thing without actually having to pay any real attention to it. AS far as adding content, I'll agree with what some others said in that Video Dog seems to be devovling into bunny videos and war reportage... how about some more unusual/weird/non-episodic stuff? I haven't actually checked out Video Dog in a couple months because it's always those damn bunnies or the war. Also, more tech reporting, please. How The World Works is nice, but only maybe 10% tech... sorry, but I don't consider east Asian economics to be technology. Alright, rant over. Bring back the Fix though. It's a nice bit of variety and welcome silliness in an increasingly hard and serious world.

Good Lord, I would love to vote for him again. Maybe this time, not only will he win the election, but the office, too.

Tasty topic, good presentation, meaty analysis. Interesting thoughts about the response bias... I've often wondered how many people simply put five stars automatically when they're -somewhat- satisfied, or conversely, scored an item/service at one or zero ("tihs suxs") when they're only mildly dissatisfied. The red-yellow-green meter thingy is intriguing. Hope to see that sort of thing around a lot more.