Sections: Uncategorized Jul 28th, 2005 2 Comments The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is being criticzed for holding back a report that indicates a significant drop in the fuel efficency of US automakers’ vehicles, just as Congress prepares a final vote on an energy bill that’s taken six years to get to the floor.
[ Why Is the EPA Delaying a Report on Vehicle Fuel Economy? ] Jalopnik
Sections: Uncategorized Jul 26th, 2005 No Comments An email found during the investigation, from one executive at Epic to another, read: “At the end of the day, [David] Universal added Good Charlotte and Gretchen Wilson and hit Alex up for another grand and they settled for $750.”
Another, from an Epic employee to a Clear Channel programmer looked like this: “WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET AUDIOSLAVE ON WKSS THIS WEEK?!!? Whatever you can dream up, I can make it happen.”
Hopefully this will get the word out to more Americans that most commercial radio is not nothing more than an extension of large corporations looks for profits at the cost artists and integrity.
[ Sony Busted for Payola! ] Pitchforkmedia.com
Sections: Uncategorized Jul 20th, 2005 No Comments This woofer is now the ultimate power in the universe, I suggest we use it…
Via Engadget
Sections: Uncategorized Jul 20th, 2005 1 Comment The Moon as seen through the Google Map interface.
Via Kottke.org
Sections: Uncategorized Jul 15th, 2005 4 Comments My other weblog, MotoringFile, is currently down. We are currently upgrading the site to a new host. We had planned on having minimal downtime this weekend however, due to circumstances out of our control, things will take a bit longer than anticipated. We expect the site to be back up sometime on Sunday just in time to post some more juicy bits of info.
Sections: Auto Safety Jul 14th, 2005 13 Comments 
Well not quite. Maybe 5mph and above. I was witness to a rather scary accident the other evening evening. Here’s what happened. I was at a stoplight with three other cars. There was a Jeep Liberty in the left lane (I was in the right) with a turn signal. Both of us were north bound. Then there was another Jeep Liberty in the left lane facing us, next to them was a Jeep Grand Cherokee. The light changed and the Jeep next to us immediately begin to turn left into the intersection - apparently oblivious to the fact that this particular light had no left hand turn arrow.
Sections: Uncategorized Jul 12th, 2005 1 Comment To workers and union leaders, it is a familiar refrain. These days, the story goes, consumers demand low prices, meaning goods must be produced and sold cheaply — and retail wages must be kept as low as possible. Companies like Wal-Mart insist they’re feeling the squeeze and must pay workers poverty wages — even while netting $10.5 billion in annual profits and awarding millions to top executives.
But there’s another company that is breaking the Wal-Mart mold: Costco Wholesale Corp., now the fifth-largest retailer in the U.S. While Wal-Mart pays an average of $9.68 an hour, the average hourly wage of employees of the Issaquah, Wash.-based warehouse club operator is $16. After three years a typical full-time Costco worker makes about $42,000, and the company foots 92% of its workers’ health insurance tab.
How does Costco pull it off? How can a discount retail chain pay middle-class wages and still bring in over $880 million in net revenues? And, a cynic may ask, with Wal-Mart wages becoming the norm, why does it bother?
[ The Costco Challenge: An Alternative to Wal-Martization? ] LRA Online
via Kottke.org
Sections: Uncategorized Jul 11th, 2005 3 Comments [ Texans Think Smaller ] Wall Street Journal
Let’s hear it for high gas prices!
Sections: Uncategorized Jul 8th, 2005 No Comments They start out in celebratory mode with the 2012 Olympics but things quickly take a turn to the dramatic.
[ The Jon Gaunt Show 7/7/05 ] BBC Radio (RealOne Player required)
Riveting stuff.
Sections: Uncategorized Jul 8th, 2005 No Comments Well, one of them…
PistonHeads.com have a nice write-up on the Ford RS200 Evo. A car that would do 0-60 in 2.1 seconds and had over 650hp from four cylinders. More than double the power than a modern WRC rally car.
Four wheel drive and 650bhp from a mere 2.1 litre engine made Ford’s rally car an instant legend which few cars have come close to catching.
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