F U OPEC

From Wired.com -

"A biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon, and it wouldn't interfere with food supplies, company officials said. Coskata, which is backed by General Motors and other investors, uses bacteria to convert almost any organic material, from corn husks (but not the corn itself) to municipal trash, into ethanol."

It reminds me of a little movie called "Back to the Future"

Boden's Next

Piece in the Middle East

This is a wonderful piece by Maureen Dowd about Bush’s Middle East trip. It says a lot about where we are diplomatically, how we are perceived in the Arab World, and what a deal-with-the-devil the combustion engine has forced us into.

Faith, Freedom and Bling in the Middle East

P.S. I'm really proud of the title I came up with for this post.

P.P.S. This is the hotel in Abu Dhabi that is mentioned in the article, the Emirates Palace Hotel. It is the most expensive one ever built. This is just a photo of the central section (the whole hotel is over half a mile long) -

Here's a shot of the royal entrance. Note the South Asian in the forefront who likely gets paid about $5/day -

Top 10 things that were pretty awesome this past weekend

The following list isnt actually in any particular order, if it were #5 would be #1.  

1. Going to The Abbey twice in the same 24 hour day

2. 3 birthday parties being celebrated among the maximum capacity of approximately 20 people that The Abbey can hold

3. 11 cars parked in our front yard

4. M5

5. Strippers are normal people too (sorta)

6. Blonde mohawk

7. Patriots win again

8. American Psycho bonanza

9. Not getting arrested for DTP

10. The fact that this was just another typical weekend and that theres no reason to believe that next weekend is going to be any different.

Sumo no terebi

Check out Panasonic's new 150" flat panel TV. The best part is that they have sumo wrestlers on the screen. And one of them's a pretty badass black dude. That's awesome. They should call it "The Panasonic Sumo". It costs about $100,000.

What's the AMPTP?

I didn't know either, so when I saw Sarah Silverman carrying a sign that described her hatred of said acronym, I looked it up. It's the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. I know what you're thinking. "I don't have a ton of sympathy for a bunch of really rich Jewish dudes who live in Beverly Hills." You don't have to sympathize to see how sanguine their argument is and their site is pretty awesome. The striking writers are losing more money than they hoped to gain through their union's negotiations.

www.amptp.org