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Safeway runs on biofuel

Written by Rhodos in Sunday, January 20th 2008 under Consumer News   
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Wind Power Safeway has a fleet of more than a thousand trucks that will eventually run on biodiesel fuel. This gradual phase-in will reduce Safeway’s carbon output by an estimated 75 million pounds. More companies are associating with cleaner practices as consumer awareness of the environment grows.

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Next Generation Silicon Batteries

Written by Rhodos in Saturday, January 19th 2008 under Technology   
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Next Gen Battries With a storage capacity 8 times of conventional lithium batteries, the applications of these revolutionary batteries are endless. The semi-technical term is silicon-nanowire batteries, and the research was a collaboration of Stanford University, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Hitachi.

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Google Duality: trying to save and own the world

Written by Rhodos in Friday, January 18th 2008 under World News   
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Helping Hand Google.com has a philanthropic venture group of the same name, except they end with an “.org”. Besides its many mission goals, the “other half” of Google is working on issues like identifying infectious diseases, predicting droughts, and funding international social and economic services in third world countries. The timeline for its “core initiatives” is between the next five to ten years.

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Prostate Cancer Risk Identified by Genetics

Written by Rhodos in Thursday, January 17th 2008 under Health   
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Strand of DNA What exactly does having 4 or 5 bad genes mean to you? A study found patients with variants of these genes have a four to five times chance of prostate cancer over patients that did not have them. According to the Times article, “Nearly half of the cases of prostate cancer among the approximately 5,000 men in the study could be attributed to the five gene regions and a family history.” The implication, at the least, is to get one genetics test in your lifetime.

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Fuel prices up again

Written by Rhodos in Wednesday, January 16th 2008 under Consumer News   
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Gas Prices According to the Lundberg Survey released Sunday, national regular gasoline prices rose to $3.07. Unleaded gas rose to about $3.19, and super unleaded rose to $3.30. If you’re the bargain shopper type, you might have to travel a while to get the best deal. The nation’s lowest price was in Cheyenne, Wyoming at $2.77 a gallon. And not surprising with a city with a proposed driver tax, San Francisco, has the highest gas price of $3.39 a gallon.

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TSA Flying Blindfolded

Written by Rhodos in Tuesday, January 15th 2008 under Consumer News   
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Flight Times As if getting on a plane wasn’t hard enough, now you have to face the consumer support nightmare of their website. The current No Fly List isn’t perfect, and the process of disputing it is even more ridiculous. Concerns over the TSA’s customer support website were first brought up last February by a blogger Christopher Soghoian.

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Health Risk of Sweetener Sorbitol

Written by Rhodos in Monday, January 14th 2008 under Health   
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Colorful Gumballs Published in the January 12 issue of the British Medical Journal, an observation found your gum chewing habits could lead to negative consequences. The observation done by Dr. Herbert Lochs and Dr. Juergen Bauditz found two of their patients experienced rapid weight loss due to excessive diarrhea. Both parents were visiting the bathroom in excess of 10 times or more a day.

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Even the Feds make late payments

Written by Rhodos in Sunday, January 13th 2008 under World News   
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Sealed Documents It’s not surprising the U.S. Government may loose its AAA credit rating for the first time in the nation’s history. According to a report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, nearly half of FBI’s phone bills linked to operations was not paid on time. And as expected in every case of nonpayment, their operations were temporarily halted until they paid. The worst part is that these operations were related to homeland security, specifically wiretapping terrorist suspects. Richard Kolko, a spokesperson for the Bureau said “no evidence was lost because of the disconnections.”

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National ID card a reality this spring

Written by Rhodos in Saturday, January 12th 2008 under Consumer News   
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National ID a reality You might want to check if your state is opting out of the Fed’s National Identification Card program, which will be required by 2014 for citizens born after 1964. For non-participating states in the program, the Feds have mandated to the commercial airlines industry that your state driver’s license is no longer valid identification to board a plane.

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Worst Domain Registrar of the Year Named

Written by Rhodos in Friday, January 11th 2008 under Technology   
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Domain Names Held Hostage Network Solutions Inc. recently reversed its policy of reserving domain names searched through its website. Who hasn’t visited a registrar and searched for a domain they wanted to buy. Most of the time it would of already been registered, but guess how many of those times were because of Network Solutions’ blatant greed and deceit?

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