CNN: 250 miles per gallon? They’re doing it – Aug 15, 2005

While the title is a bit misleading, the article has a good point. This is something the auto industry has resisted for a long time. If you mostly do light commuting and you’re handy with electronics, this might be a good project for you. Perhaps now that a few people are trying this, the industry will wake up and start offering this as an option on some of the current hybrids. One can only hope…

Here is a link to the Prius+ site on Yahoo Groups. The guy mentioned in the above story is a member of this group which has done a lot of work on Prius PHEV conversions. Check it out..

The space shuttle Discovery has made it’s way safely back to Earth. Congratulations to the Crew and to NASA for a job well done! Let’s hope they can get the last few problems fixed and get these old birds flying again.

Though I’ve always suspected this to be the case, it looks like SCO’s claims about linux violating their copyright are completely baseless. Aparently they hired consultants to pick apart the linux kernel and according to them, there’s nothing there. Of course SCO disputes this, but after all that they’ve done, I’m not exactly inclined to believe them. The story was originally boken by the Groklaw website which obtained an e-mail containing the evidence above.