BBC's "no waste like home" series

How cool is that? There is a show in England that has about the same format as "trading spaces" or others on TLC or HGTV... BUT... it's about how to make your home more environmentally friendy with more energy efficiency! I want the host to come to my house!!!!! No waste like home site Found on the alternative power blog that I check daily... REALLY COOL and INFORMATIVE BLOG

Bush makes me cry

Crooks and Liars found this in the LA Times: Gretna City Council backs closing of the bridge Little over a week after this mostly white suburb became a symbol of callousness for using armed officers to seal one of the last escape routes from New Orleans — trapping thousands of mostly black evacuees in the flooded city — the Gretna City Council passed a resolution supporting the police chief's move-- New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin said Thursday that Gretna officials "will have to live" with their decision. "We allowed people to cross ... because they were dying in the convention center," Nagin said. "We made a decision to protect people…. They made a decision to protect property. Is this what you would call compassionate conservatism?

My pyramid, the Khufutron

Still working on my pyramid... somehow I got it working, and I mean ALL my sensors work, but it needs tweeking... AND I'm not sure if it's not a little boring... maybe I need more on it. I do want to make it more practical because there is too many cables and connections coming out of it and into the computer... Gotta think harder! But I still am kinda proud of it, it looks cool if anything!

Brian Eno on tiny music

RE: Microsoft Sound -- "The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, 'Here's a specific problem -- solve it.' The thing from the agency said, 'We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,' this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said 'and it must be 3¼ seconds long.' I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time." - Brian Eno

Kurt Vonnegut's list

LIBERAL CRAP I NEVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN Give us this day our daily bread. Oh sure. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those wh trespass against us. Nobody better trespass against me. I'll tell you that. Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the merciful. You mean we can't use torture? Blessed are the peacemakers. Jane Fonda? Love your enemies - Arabs? Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. The hell I can't! Look at the Reverand Pat Robertson. And He is as happy as a pig in s**t. (Vonnegut on the daily show)

We're back!

Mike and I came back from Montreal last night. We got to see the orange color taking over the trees, hang out with my family, and generally rest! AAAhhhhh! There was also some interesting things happening there while the Katrina tragedy was evolving. Related to the Katrina event, it seems people outside the US, and especially french speaking countries (as far as I know right now) had no idea of the amount of racism here. I personaly had no idea about it until I moved to Boston some 10 years ago, but thought that the news had spread somehow. Well no, the news are showing so much of the white preferential help over in Louisiana that France and Canada (especially Quebec) are utterly suprised and outraged. How is it that the black people here are treated like this when with the same slave history, they are, in France and Quebec, feeling very much part of the population. It seems here they don't feel very much "american" where over there they do feel french or canadian... Anyway, it was a very interesting thing to realize, and I truly hope that the international awareness of this problem will change things, but somehow I also doubt it. The other thing that happened was with the gas prices... Like us here, they are very much affected by the quick raise in prices at the station. Unlike us here, they react very fast and are already "rebelling" against that. One man started going to major gas stations and use his credit card to pay for 6 cents worth of gas, taking his sweet time to do it, using the bathroom, cleaning his windshield and pretty much using every single facility provided there for paying customers. This idea spread because he called the radio station to tell what he'd been doing and a lot, and I mean a lot, of people started doing the same thing. That was about 4 days before we left, and the day we left gas prices were already going down. The gas companies started meeting with the representatives of the states, then pufff... it drops. I guess knowing that the gas and oil companies have made record profit this year compared to the same time last year, maybe they can afford to NOT make so much and avoid us the complete pain of having to fill up for $40 everytime (and that's only an average!)... or maybe they should let us have our hydrogen and electric cars, stop screwing our children's air and stop preventing this social change!!!!!!! I'd also love to see how the people in Los Angeles would do if they had to put 6 cents worth of gas in their Hummers... Oh my God, they would have to buy another one with a full tank then! Ahhh, I thought we were doomed! Sad huh!?

Halliburton

So they are the first ones to be hired to reconstruct in New Orleans? How is that possible? How is it that Clinton almost was impeached for so much less than what they lied about??????!!!!! How much money is the administration going to steal this time without being shut down? Didn't they lie for something much more important than the sex affairs of our previous president? Isn't that what matters, especially in these times of war and natural catastrophies all over....? Just as the global warming issue, it is very easy to say that it doesn't exist but yet all these typhoons, hurricanes and melting of polar ice show that something IS different from before.... It is also very easy to say that the Halliburton problem didn't happen... Will people in the US finally remember what happens in their past that affects their history and their people? How can we let it go again????? I don't think that the american people are stupid. Seems to me George W does! Will the "voice" of the people who think this new Halliburton deal is wrong finally speak UP? Come on Dean, say it really loud and yell your warrior cry so we can start reacting a little!!! This pacifist crap has lasted long enough... I feel responsible for all these deaths in Irak and New Orleans at this point!!!!!! http://www.halliburtonwatch.org

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