Bob Morris on Sep 26, 2010, 6:10 am Leno’s garage has a solar roof putting out 54 KW so it’s off the grid during the day. The video features early electric cars, some from 1909, as well as steam cars. Leno clearly loves his cars and is highly knowledgeable about them. Interesting, some of the early electric cars could go 100 miles [...] Bob Morris on Sep 25, 2010, 10:36 pm For those of us owned by our cats, James Huggins has some useful guidelines to help us understand them. Here’s a few excerpts. As often as possible, dart quickly and as close as possible in front of the human, especially on stairs, when they have something in their arms, in the dark, and when they [...] d.eris on Sep 25, 2010, 5:36 pm One of Bob’s most frequent criticisms of the Democratic Party states that Democrats no longer stand for anything, except, perhaps, the reproduction of the reigning status-quo. Green Party candidates across the country, on the other hand, have come together in support of a “Green New Deal.” What is the Green New Deal? As Green Party [...] Bob Morris on Sep 25, 2010, 2:21 pm Two days after being confronted by ABC News, Bank of America has fired a debt collection agency after several of its operators were caught using racist and obscene phone calls to collect debts from bank customers Bob Morris on Sep 25, 2010, 10:40 am How dumb was the Silicon Valley hiring conspiracy? Let us count the ways When I think of Google, Apple, Intel, Intuit, Adobe and Pixar, the words that come to mind are usually innovative and progressive. In the wake of their shocking settlement with the federal government Friday over charges they colluded to not hire each [...] Bob Morris on Sep 25, 2010, 6:10 am The godfather of electric motorcycles. Gas 2.0 has more, including the video how to smoke a Mavizen electric motorcycle tire. 155 mph electric superbus. Dutch students are designing and now testing the cross between an electric muscle car and a luxury limo. With 800 hp, it can do 155 mph. Electric ATV [...] Bob Morris on Sep 25, 2010, 12:25 am Everyone is aggregating election polling. This HuffPo contribution has the usual mouse-over popups to see what happening in a state, plus positive / negative social media mentions. Nice. The races for Governor and Senate in California should not be toss ups. They should be easy wins for Democrats, which gives some indication of how [...] Bob Morris on Sep 24, 2010, 9:40 pm A top expert in protecting industry and infrastructure from cyber-attacks has told the Financial Times that a computer worm which surfaced more than a year ago may well have been a deliberate attempt by the U.S. government to destroy Iran’s primary nuclear facility. The highly sophisticated Stuxnet worm attacks specific Siemens software used [...] Bob Morris on Sep 24, 2010, 5:22 pm Those Brown Bailout ads are everywhere. Beyond annoying, aren’t they? And they are omnipresent too. Fedex is paying for the ads. Details here. They are at war with UPS and their ally in this war, the Teamsters. And I don’t care about their war. Surely there must be a way to stop the relentless assault [...] Bob Morris on Sep 24, 2010, 1:30 pm The Thanet windfarm has 100 turbines, and generates more power than all other offshore power put together. Total output is 300 MW, enough for 200,000 homes. And lots more offshore wind power is coming to the UK too. | Independent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues |
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