Day January 6, 2008

Imagine, a web site for your toaster

Whirlpool has announced a refrigerator with embedded wi-fi. “Hello, this is Refrigerator Tech Support, how may I help you.” “My refrigerator door refuses to open. It says my authorization has been revoked.” “Let me log on to your fridge to…

Biofuel from spare tires

It sounds too good to be true: a machine that turns trash into oil. But it exists— and the first commercial model has been sold to a company in Arizona to turn junk tires into oil, natural gas, and other…

Foreclosure tsunami coming

Ray Kest, a business professor at Hodges University in Fort Myers FL who follows the local economy, said banks and other lenders are unable to process the increasing numbers of people who aren’t making their payments. “I understand they’re backed…

The hippies were right

From The Left Coaster The hippies were right One of Duncan Black’s favorite minted expressions, rightly so, is dirty fucking hippie, the instant dismissive moniker chucked at any liberal idea to crush its legitimacy. … Those environmentalist hippies were and…