my husband David and I had a chance to test-drive a Ford Escape Hybrid today – meaning a partly gas-powered, partly electric-powered vehicle (a decent sized SUV) that gets great gas mileage and is touted as environmentally friendly. The technology behind it is interesting, innovative, and impressive from my point of view, since it’s designed to be fully integrated and automatic. There is no maintenance required on the battery pack and it never need be recharged (in fact, it can’t be recharged the way it’s designed) because it is continuously recharged by either the generator motor or by “regenerative braking.”…
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The Nation publishes 100 Facts and 1 Opinion with a handy link to a PDF file to be downloaded and distributed as necessary. Very inconvenient, these facts. Likely to bring Bushco to its knees in the end. If after reading these 100 facts, which each have links to news stories backing them up, anyone still undecided will never decide.
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From Salon.com (subscription or ad-nag screen), apparent proof that for some purposes Bushco does not oppose cloning. Such as, making it appear as if a very large crowd of soldiers has got your back. Joe Lockhart of the Kerry campaign responds: “Now we know why this ad is named ‘Whatever it Takes.’ This administration has always had a problem telling the truth, from Iraq to jobs to health care. The Bush campaign’s advertising has been consistently dishonest in what they say. But today, it’s been exposed for being dishonest about what we see. “If they won’t tell the truth in…
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Boing Boing makes the Beeb: their item on the official website of Resident W blocking international visitors showed up on the BBC News website. It seems they found the information about alternate ways to access the site useful.
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Yep, that’s the Resident. This was back when he was governor of Texas. If you click on the image, the clip should play (but it’s from Salon.com, so it may throw you into a nag screen first). Kinda makes you wonder whether that smirking badass fratboy still roams the halls of the White House after the handlers have left for the day.
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Keyes was also asked about another comment he made last week critical of gay marriage in which he declared: “Where procreation is in principle impossible, marriage is irrelevant.” Keyes said the logic of that statement would not preclude elderly people past child-bearing age from getting married. Overshare Alert! Well, in my case “procreation in principle is impossible,” because reproduction has been permanently circumvented. However, this doesn’t stop us from fooling around anyway. Yay! Therefore, I’m childfree, and Alan Keyes would think I’m a monster, with an irrelevant marriage. Apparently, he would have people who are unable or unwilling to have…
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David was disappointed we were going to miss the total lunar eclipse tonight, but it turns out there will be a webcast. Yay!! UPDATE: I don’t know if the webcast sites will be any good, but the moon is visible through light haze at the moment, with a small bite taken out of the lower lleft quadrant. David’s trying something fancy with his camera involving a tripod, a long lens, and a hat. We’ll see if it works.
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Yes, the broadcast date of the 6th installment of The Amazing Race is November 16, and the CBS site has been updated with team profiles. After learning a lesson about not forming too many opinions on people before the premiere airs (that is, I tended to dismiss the TAR4 Klowns until I felt the Klown Luv and realized they were terrific, fun racers), I won’t say much. However, what’s with the woman in the red pullover and the “lookit my boobs!” pose? Oh, right, she’s a model. The professional wrestlers kind of bug me, but who knows? They might turn…
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Surfers outside the US have been unable to visit the official re-election site of President George W Bush (Ed. note: www.georgewbush.com, and hell no, I’m not linking to it). The blocking of browsers sited outside the US began in the early hours of Monday morning. Since then people outside the US trying to browse the site get a message saying they are not authorised to view it. The blocking does not appear to be due to an attack by vandals or malicious hackers, but as a result of a policy decision by the Bush camp. It may be a bandwidth…
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Weekend? There was a weekend? Friday Worked at the client home office location, so had to “dress up.” Took the new camera with me, got a few photos before the light went Went shopping for new clothes with my husband David. Actually bought some for myself, and they actually fit. Saturday Bar Mitzvah service in Northfield, wearing the new clothes Lunch with Dan and Deb at their place, not far from Libertyville Drove home for a short time, bought more clothes on the way. Drove back up to Libertyville to the location of the party. Got home very late, probably…