Contributions from Oil & Gas industry to Bush 2000 campaign: $1,889,206
Contributions from Oil & Gas industry to Bush 2004 campaign: $2,596,725
Price of a barrel of crude oil at the beginning of 2001: about $23
Price of a barrel of crude oil at the end of April, 2008: nearly $120
$1 trillion profits to OPEC nations predicted for […]
Philip Greenspun, owner of a Cirrus SR20 himself has a great post speculating on what happened in today’s crash in Manhattan. What many assume was terrorism or suicide might have just been a couple minor mistakes resulting in the bad crash.
Holy crap, the rumors were true: Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion
I’m really happy about this and think it’s a good thing. Like I said last month, YouTube offers a fundamental shift in how video is shared online and provided a free hosting outlet for millions of people. YouTube proved that broadband and video can […]
I’m right there with Mike on the planets thing. I love that there are people fighting tooth and nail over this stuff.
I’ve long been a fan of alternate fuels and doing something to challenge car manufacturers to think of new ways to transport us without having to use oil, but this recent story on Treehugger kind of threw me for a loop:
Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s top marketer of biofuels, considers using food crops to make […]
Five undergraduate programs are being dropped: civil and environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, computer engineering and exercise and sports science.
Tulane University got rid of their Civil Engineering program in the wake of Katrina. Doesn’t that seem odd? At the time when New Orleans needs to be rebuilt, the biggest university there […]
This slideshow (via mefi) is one of the most amazing accounts I’ve seen of the hurricane, before, during, and after. It contains photos from familiar landmarks and areas of the city and shows pretty clearly why people that stayed behind didn’t think it was going to be that bad, and as it progressed, just how […]
I’ve watched a week of non-stop Katrina news and I’m still in a daze at what has happened. There’s nothing to say really.
Aside from giving to the Red Cross, Modest Needs is another great charity doing everything it can to help those in the wake of this disaster, and in a very simple and direct […]
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