Day June 28, 2008

Bill Clinton goes off deep end

The Telegraph UK quotes a “senior Democrat” who said Bill Clinton told friends Obama could “kiss my ass” for support. Someone once said about an exceptionally bad movie that Norman Mailer made that, I have no idea if Norman was…

Split personality

The home page for the L.A. Times is mostly fluff now. However, if you click the link for Print Edition, then you get the hard news.

Intruder alert. Hacking the electrical grid

Former CIA director James Woolsey turned “green hawk” cleantech venture capitalist asks a panel at a Google/Brookings conference what is being done to prevent our aging electrical grid from being hacked, with potentially serious damage resulting. He cites two major…

Net metering and feed-in tariffs

Germany has the world’s largest photovoltaic market. They did this with an innovative program that encourages homeowners to install solar. Rather than take the net metering approach (common in the US) in which excess energy is sent into the grid…

Dear websites with video

Would you PLEASE not autoplay video with the sound on when I arrive on your home page? And most especially not when they are advertisements. Thanks so much. TheStreet.com did this for a few days this week with a series…