Asphalt Jungle Energy

This is a technique I hadn't heard of before, siphoning off heat from roads and parking lots. It would be slow to integrate into common use though if it was done through construction projects and repairs, but eventually all paved areas need repairs so in 10-20yrs it could be prevalent.

Tapping the hot asphalt jungle for energy

Late to the party...

I know! I know already! I know! I'm months behind on the links I send myself as important things for me to read or know about. I came across this one tonight as I was going through some old emails and I agree with Wanda. I'm all for raising the level of discourse even if it is just supposed to be catty 'fun' bitching.

Electric Bikes

I liked this story about electric bikes because I hadn't known much about them previously. What bothered me about the story is that it said that people still plug the bikes in, which uses carbon down the line at the electricity generation plant. It should be less carbon than driving a car around but it's still using a resource when you don't need to. Either people should just ride a bike with no charging or the electric bikes should have a mode to switch into where the user peddles exclusively to charge the battery, then when it's full (as when charged from plugging in) it's available for assisted riding.

Electric bikes provide greener commute

Griping

I don't understand this CNN 'news story' about this man that is complaining about the windmills on his fathers property that are guaranteeing a good income for a period of time. In this drama there has been family struggle and threats and high emotions, but none of the opinions the main character spouts seem based on his physical reality. He sounds like a very disgruntled hypocritical bastard that just waits for anything to come along he can pop off to his family or others about.

What a fucking loser you are, John Yancey of Lowville, New York.

Wind power brings prosperity, anger

Fucking Retarded Xians

Petrol pump pilgrims keep faith

Boulevard Woodgrill

Well, this was Boulevard Woodgrills second chance to impress me with its
food and it failed.

Boulevard Woodgrill
2901 Wilson Blvd
Arlington, VA, 22201

I ordered the 'southwest frittata' and it came with crab, chorizo,
fontina, and roasted potatos. The problem is with the food and its
presentation. What was delivered to my table wasn't very appealing
looking and it also wasn't a frittata. It was a thin layer of cooked
eggs with junk thrown on top that was held in place with melted
cheese.

Unfortunately this is a place that seems to serve food along the lines
of Whitlows on Wilson which is across the street from it. That means it
is just rushed out of the kitchen with no care and is merely something
to slop the fraternity/sorority pigs with.

I wouldn't recommend the food here and there isn't any atmosphere. My
waiter, Gene S., was nice and attentive but that can't make up for food
that is lacking.

pretty planter

I remember when there was no growth in this planter just a few months
ago.

Gay Republican Sex Drama

As I was reading this I had mixed reactions. It is in bad form for him to have donated to a republican, but it is his money and he is certainly free to do it. He isn't necessarily self hating or regressive but may actually think other things, besides freedom and equality, that mccains platform is based on are important.

What I thought was hilarious was that politics were intruding into sluts and whores pursuit of cock and the thought that any of them would really care. I doubt the power bottoms on the site take their asses out of the air long enough to know what is going on around them, same with the meth addicts, if they aren't one in the same.

So, that having been the larger society view of the users of the site, I think it being coined as a gay issue is a misnomer. Its a sex issue, not gay. The website is for sex networking, not social networking as others where users have profiles and interact. All this hubbub is just because it's sex and people identify, justifiably so, strongly with it. Now add in that it is a gay sex site and you get the baggage of people who feel the slightest criticism of their behaviour is a denouncement of them as people and the incident flairs to life.


Manhunt Chairman Jonathan Crutchley Steps Down from Board

Afternoon viewing

Tragedy of Suburbia by James Howard Kunstler at TED 2004.

Love a man with his legs in the air

Unfortunately, this guy was being an ass and not putting his feet down
when passengers would board. It wasn't a crowded train but its still
courteous to not make people go around you.

He had an iphone or ipod touch without headphones and I couldn't figure
out what he could be watching without sound. On my way out I saw he was
reading and not watching video. That is the frst time I'd seen someone
read for 15mins on an iphone or ipod touch.

Metro viewing

I watched 'End of Suburbia' and 'Underwater Astonishments' from last year at TED.

Metro viewing

While riding the Metro the last couple of days I have watched the first part of the 'Commanding Heights' documentary from google video and a talk on AIDS in Africa from last year at TED.

Fun talk about food and what we do with it

Thermoelectric Cooling

Promethean Power uses the sun for cooling

Ripping on Fiscal Conservatives

Not true fiscal conservatives but the Republican fakers that act against the interests of the majority of their supporters. You know who I'm talking about, all of the poor stupid people that vote against their economic interests.

Fiscal Conservatives?

Forced Sterilization

Swedish Castration Proposal Opposed

The article is about transgendered people undergoing sterilization as a mandatory step in gender reassignment to prevent them from getting pregnant, or I assume impregnating.

That is so wrong. What if the person doesn't want to become a traditional female or male but instead a gender queer individual? What organ would they decide to forcible rip out of their body then?
I doubt they've even thought about this aspect of peoples choices, that it isn't male or female but instead there's a spectrum of genders they could occupy, though we don't have names for them.

What they mainly seem to be worried about is a FTM becoming pregnant. Conversely I'd imagine they'd be worried about a MTF impregnating her girlfriend with her penis, if she chose to keep it. But what is wrong with either scenario? In the second one you have a woman pregnant, very normal. She was just impregnated by her girlfriend, which isn't so unusual because of fertility clinics giving lesbian women sperm for home inseminations. In the first one it's a pregnant man, different but hardly disruptive. Everyone already knows what to do for a pregnant person, meaning maternity leave (a change of terms would be nice), and reduced strenuous physical activity toward the end of the pregnancy. So what's the big deal?

Zombie Tech

Wesley sent me this article last week and I finally had a chance to read it. It's a fun look at 6 technologies that are dead but don't know it.

Zombie Tech

Learn to Beatbox!

http://www.mouthdrumming.com/

I was talking to my friend Jeff tonight and he mentioned that he had dinner recently with someone he went to MIT with and sent along a couple of links. As you can imagine I am amazed and pleased at the breadth of people Jeff knows. :)

Athens Boys Choir

I don't understand the title of the video but I don't care. He is a very cute guy. :) and bonus! FTM my favorite flavor. :D



Athens Boys Choir - A Gender Deviant, Multi-Media, Spoken Word / Hip-Hop
Extravaganza

Luv it!

Green Porno on Sundance

I love when Isabella Rosselini is creepy. *swoon* :D

Green Porno