James Howard Kuntsler – The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

Kuntsler examines what the future could be like after the oil runs out.  He thinks we reached peak oil sometime between 2000 and 2005, meaning half the world’s available oil is gone and each year we’ll produce less and less.  He thinks we have 30 years of oil left, but skyrocketing prices will cause chaos long before then.  Unfortunately, he’s not too hopeful that alternatives like hydrogen will be ready before the oil runs out.

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Top 10

Wired News’ 10 Sexiest Geeks of 2005.

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Performancing the Stone

This is a test using Performancing for Firefox, a extension that puts a full-featured blog editor inside your browser. It works with all the biggies like WordPress, WordPress.com, MovableType, Blogger, and LiveJournal. There’s a great WYSIWYG editor available, and it’s much snappier than the slow ass editor in WP 2.0.  It also gives the excellent ecto a run for it’s money.

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Juicy Couture

During a quick trip down to Springfield/Branson this weekend I stopped counting after the fifth Jesus Radio station.  Then one of the secular stations had an ad for a store selling the Juicy Couture clothing line, and the girl kept pronouncing it Juicy Cooter. I think this is more than just a Mizzourah accent that says Versailles like Ver-Sales, and in fact the buckle of the Bible Belt has a store that sells juicy cooter and advertises it on the radio.

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Overheard

“Card-carrying leftist hippy.”

Last night at Twin City Tavern.  I had no idea that one could get a card for that. I wonder if there are patchouli or VW ownership requirements that must be verified before the issuance of said cards…

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