Some interesting points.
1.Ethanol is so cheap in Brazil because they use sugarcane which
produces far more ethanol per pound than corn.  America's climate will
not let it grow sugar cane.

I went to Fry's Electronics yesterday to turn in a monitor for fixing.  I
had to get a "manager" to search the files for my sales invoice.
This "manager" was 18 years old.  We spent a bit of time together getting
the records out of the computer database.

In North Las Vegas, Nevada, over the weekend, police issued 206 citations to
drivers for failing to yield the right of way to a pedestrian.
They were concerned by four fatalities this year of people J walking.  They
had an undercover cop J walk, then ticketed the people who ...

Excerpted from a new or upcoming book, _Oil on the Brain: Adventures
from the Pump to the Pipeline_ by Lisa Margonelli, this article gives
an interesting look behind the scenes at a (small, and these days,
perhaps anomalous) urban gas station:

Wouldn't you know it?  In the good ol' Mid-South, most Starbucks locations
didn't have WiFi services.  Oh well...
Picking up where we left off, here's a video of US Federal Route 31W...  in
the key of F Major!  The location is in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.  There are

Can someone explain the "New book on Michigan highways" thread?
Why would someone spend so much time doing this?
I think it's time to hang some spammers and porn peddlers.
But, I'm not going to make it my lifelong agenda and relentlessly spew it

26 lanes wide. 356,000+ vehicles per day. Until it was rebuilt in
1997, it was one of the most congested freeway interchanges in the
universe. Even today it is one of the busiest. And now I invite you to
drive through it with me...

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4879019
(snip)
Stacey Stegman, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of
Transportation, said that the highway department and State Patrol are

Just added to the Worldwide Highway Library is a video of US Federal Route
31!  Footage encompasses southern Indianapolis, while its commentary
discusses everything from gas prices to macro-termini to the local street
name for the route.  There are two ways to see this latest ...

There is legislation in the Arizona House of Representatives sponsored
by Andy Biggs for Arizona to sign the new Driver License Agreement
(DLA). What this entails is Arizona sharing their driver license
databases not only with other states but also foreign countries of

Today I just noticed, just before the Old Town Victorville|Apple
Valley exit on southbound I-15 (that'd be the CA-18 East/D Street
exit), a Business Loop 15 shield. Elsewhere in Cali on the 15,
Business 15 is signed with a sign with the words "Route 15 Business."

Since some states have them (front plates) and some states don't,
wouldn't you think by now it would be clear to everyone that front
plates are not needed?  You know that if there was a correlation
between having a front plate and "better" law enforcement of some

Another day in criminal coddler america.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/16560417.htm?source=rss&channel=dfw_news
Posted on Sat, Jan. 27, 2007
Driver in deadly crash out on bail

I was getting onto the 210 the other day and the meter was on.
Unfortunately, though, the light NEVER changed once I approached it.
There was a car next to me, and gradually I could see more and more cars
pulling up behind us.  Now, I'll admit that I am not the most patient