Day October 19, 2005

How the neocons have screwed up the oil business

From the Oil Drum, discussing how difficult it is for oil companies to find qualified engineers now. Our insider comments that in an office where the  median age is now around  55 for the majority of drilling engineers and production…

Reason 764 to be paranoid

Secret code in color printers lets government track you A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. Rumors that cell…

Wilma now a Cat 5

Estimated minimum central pressure is 882 mb…26.05 inches. There has never been a hurricane like Wilma before. With an unbelievable round of intensification that saw the pressure drop 87 mb in just 12 hours, Wilma smashed the all-time record for…