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More on the High Road to Taos here. Sort of related: Doc posts some great aerial shots over the Sierra Nevada (I agree with his perspective on the landscape).
Lassee on Ethanol
Wisconsin State Senate President Alan Lassee on AB 15:
I hope to set the record straight that ethanol is a welcome choice for citizens and taxpayers statewide. As the price of gasoline continues to skyrocket, we need to examine the use of alternative fuels and other means to ease our burden every time we fill up our tanks. One of the main reasons I support Assembly Bill 15 is my belief that we need to reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil and break the stranglehold of foreign oil sheiks. To me, it is a no-brainer that ethanol, which can be produced in state by the corn grown by our farmers, is a good start to reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
The Renew Energy Blog has another perspective on this.
Mossberg on the Evils of DRM
In some quarters of the Internet, the three most hated letters of the alphabet are DRM. They stand for Digital Rights Management, a set of technologies for limiting how people can use the music and video files they’ve purchased from legal downloading services.
Health Savings Accounts and the Future of American Health Care
Richard L. Kaplan:
CBS’s Andrew Heyward: The Era of Omniscience is Over
The President of CBS News says: “On most matters there are multiple points of view out there as opposed to a single, discoverable truth.”
Hybrid Car Design Battles
Norihiko Shirouzo & Jathon Sapsford:
A battle for power and influence is under way in the auto industry, as the basic technology under the hoods of mass-market cars goes up for grabs for the first time in nearly a century.
Amid soaring gasoline prices, car makers are rushing to use hybrid engines, which boost fuel efficiency by combining a traditional gasoline motor with an electric one. The result is a race among the world’s automotive giants that — like the VHS vs. Betamax brawl in the early days of videocassettes — could redraw the industry’s hierarchy and system of alliances for years to come.
Your Printer’s Fingerprint – Exposed; A Way for Government to Track Your Documents
A EFF led research team recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. Bruce Schneier has more on the DocuColor scheme.
Auto Industry Marketing
This past summer’s widescale auto discount, or “employee pricing” programs and car manufacturer’s attempts to ween themselves from such initiatives are discussed over at Autoweek.
Overture Refinancing Coverage
Kristian Knutsen and Marc Eisen provide extensive coverage of Tuesday night’s Madison City Council vote to support refinancing the Overture Center. Knutsen live blogs the meeting while Eisen talks with former mayor Paul Soglin and obtains his views on the matter.
1958 Edward R. Murrow Speech
Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. I invite your attention to the television schedules of all networks between the hours of 8 and 11 p.m., Eastern Time. Here you will find only fleeting and spasmodic reference to the fact that this nation is in mortal danger. There are, it is true, occasional informative programs presented in that intellectual ghetto on Sunday afternoons. But during the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: LOOK NOW, PAY LATER.
via Xeni