Archive For January 9th, 2003
The Detroit Project – by Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars (AFEC) is a nonprofit group dedicated to decreasing America’s reliance on foreign oil. AFEC was co-founded by columnist Arianna Huffington, film producer Lawrence Bender, environmental activist Laurie David, and movie and TV agent Ari Emanuel
Robert Fisk: The double standards, dubious morality and duplicity of this fight against terror – Meanwhile, we are ploughing on to war in Iraq, which has oil, but avoiding war in Korea, which does not have oil. (via Electric Banana)
Next time you’re in Sydney visit the OpenAir Cinema. It’s a 25m by 16m screen that rises out of the ocean. People bring rugs or can hire bean bags to watch movies. Via Adam, our resident Aussie here in the office who watched Titanic with his wife, with the background of Sydney Harbour and the [...]
Early this week it was announced that the Irish Police force, the Gardai, are to follow a zero tolerance policy with regards to speeding. If you do even 1 mph above the 30 mph speed limit you’ll be fined and receive penalty points. This of course ignores the fact that both speedometers and police radar [...]
There’s a thread this morning on the ILUG mailing list about switching from a Windows email server to Linux. Here’s one reply from Kevin Lyda. On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:22:55AM -0000, Ciaran Costelloe wrote: > The issue that worries me is switching for Windows-based email to> Linux-based email. obviously support is a big [...]
