Heycameraman.net: Justus in Denver

One of my favorite local bloggers Laz at heycameraman.net has a great video interview with Senator Jolie Justus about blogging, politics and the new media. Money quote: "I don't think any of us know how we're going to be getting our news in the next five years." I would add I don't think any of us know what we're going to do with a multi-million dollar glass printing plant in the middle of downtown in the next five years. Maybe turn it into an aquarium? Check out Laz's post here.

Friday Rant

I'll make this real simple. Commenters are not "bloggers." Learn the difference. That is all. As you were.

Another gift idea

At $5K it's a little steep for my pocket book, but if anybody wants to buy me one....

You heard it here first

John Edwards has admitted to the affair, but says "the kid is not my son, oh no no, hoooo!!!" Any bets on how long it will be before a Billie Jean parody appears?

Efficiencity UK

This is pretty cool if only for the animation. Check it out here!

So now I'm a liberal?

I've said it before and I'll say it a thousand times more. Digging things out of the ground and setting them on fire is not a responsible way to generate energy. Think about it. The majority of our energy comes from burning things. Coal, natural gas, oil... In the 21st Century doesn't it seem odd that we're doing something so completely primitive? It seems ironic to me that as I sit here typing on this high tech computer that somewhere there's a great big mound of burning coal making this possible. This morning I read a heated letter to the editor supporting offshore drilling and how liberals describe oil usage as an addiction. The writer uses the term "liberal no-drill crowd." I know I'm very liberal when it comes to social issues, but fiscally, and I am a Finance wonk, I've always been quite conservative. Do I think it's a good idea to drill holes in the ocean floor and pull out what can only be described as a toxin? Do I want a repeat of the 1969 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara? No I don't. So does that make me a "no-drill liberal?" I guess it does. Do I at least get a t-shirt with that?

BarackObama(.com) is taking too long to respond

Everybody has their hot button issue for a presidential race. Mine is, and has been since 2000, renewable energy. In '00 Al Gore hadn't really discovered global warming yet. Apparently he was still basking in the glory of inventing the internet. In '04 I'm not really sure what John Kerry was up to. I'm not sure anybody did. Republican candidates seem enamored with oil, and Libertarian candidates love ethanol. And Green Party candidates? Well that's always Ralph Nader. I'm not concerned that we need to be saved from the Corvair again. As a matter of fact, I still see quite a few of them on the road and the drivers seem healthy and happy. This time around John McCain told us here in Kansas City that he wants to build 45 nuclear power plants and start drilling like hell off our coasts. Once again an old white guy trying to make decisions the consequences of which he won't be around to see. So this morning I thought I'd look at Barack Obama's website and actually read his energy policy. He's making me nervous right now because he seems to be backsliding on offshore drilling, dipping into the strategic oil reserve and the biggest misnomer of all "clean" coal. So I did a quick search on "barack obama's energy policy" and found the link to his site. When I loaded it up I got the following: The server at www.barackobama.com is taking too long to respond. Wow! That's either very good news for the Obama campaign in that so many people are attempting to hit his site that the server is overloaded, or someone is trying a denial of service attack (I doubt it). As I write this I finally got the page to load. Al Gore has the right idea. T. Boone Pickens has the right idea. Hopefully Barack Obama will have the right idea. I have some reading to do.