Hard not to be skeptical, but Richard Branson is developing a clean fuel
It will be called Virgin Fuel, yes! It's not ethanol-based as such, but it'll be a clean fuel. And if we've got it right, it could be a very important breakthrough. We think this fuel will work in cars and trucks and trains within a year. And we're hoping that it might work in commercial jet engines within five years, possibly sooner. So it will be able to work in Virgin Atlantic planes one day.
But it's not just that we thought we should do this to try to save the world and the thousands of species that could die if we don't do it. Unless you can generate cash, it's not going to be successful. With oil prices above $70 a barrel, people want to save on the cost of fuel, and so alternative fuels suddenly make business sense.
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wolcott appropriately slags entourage and deadwood.
some good tennis on usa network. one set apiece in what could be andre agassi final professional match. first two sets both went to tiebreakers.
meanwhile my big tv broke today. yesterday it was a hard drive. better check my biorhythms.
meanwhile my big tv broke today. yesterday it was a hard drive. better check my biorhythms.
Dined at the Slanted Door on Saturday. Had the "Niman Ranch flank steak with early girl tomatoes, jalepanos and thick cut russet potatoes ($16.50)". Awesome. Truly special dish. Also, I like the green papaya salad better each time I have it.
double duty at the farmers market. yesterday got some handmade corn tortillas, hot peppers and cantaloupe on my block. today in union square picked up some slender green beans, red swiss chard and the biggest scallions ive ever seen - 24". lots of peppers, plums, nectarines, peachs, cukes, tomatoes and greens. tis the season......
loved the cantaloupe especially because its hide is relatively smooth and uniformily tan unlike the normal reptilian skinned variety. looking forward to comparing the taste.
loved the cantaloupe especially because its hide is relatively smooth and uniformily tan unlike the normal reptilian skinned variety. looking forward to comparing the taste.
dont know if this is sensationalist tripe but the ads look intriguing. think its on natl geographic channel tonight or tomorrow.
watched part of cool hand luke this morning on the history channel. now they may be reaching in calling this history but i did like that during an intermission they had a conversation with a history professor to deconstruct elements of the movie sort of like tcm does with their saturday night movie but markedly less frivilous.
couple of notes on turner classic movies. rob zombie will host a new series, tcm underground, presumably a cult movie night. and they will also air classic dick cavett interviews with hollywood stars on thursdays for the next two months.
Saw the "Monet in Normandy" show at the Legion of Honor Museum in SF yesterday. The collection was good, but the event was a horror show. Packed like sardines. They should have a) had a bigger space and b) metered the flow of people into the the galleries.
Armitage, a well-known gossip who loves to dish and receive juicy tidbits about Washington characters, apparently hadn't thought through the possible implications of telling Novak about Plame's identity. "I'm afraid I may be the guy that caused this whole thing," he later told Carl Ford Jr., State's intelligence chief. Ford says Armitage admitted to him that he had "slipped up" and told Novak more than he should have. "He was basically beside himself that he was the guy that f---ed up. My sense from Rich is that it was just chitchat," Ford recalls in "Hubris," to be published next week by Crown and co-written by the author of this article and David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation magazine.
kirsten powers handles ann coulter as she should be handled -- with distain. and its on hannitys show, no less. guess chivalry along with civility is dead.
kirsten brings da blog along with da funk.
kirsten brings da blog along with da funk.
i havent followed the whole snakes on a plane odyssey but well before the movie came out it had already become a catchphrase. personally ive never heard it used but...........somebodies are. in fact, it was probably so well known that they went back in later and reshot a scene with samuel l jackson uttering those exact words along with a few well placed expletives so as not to disappoint the schlock-loving popcorn gobblers.
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Village Voice writer Wayne Barrett wrote a scathing biography of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani a few months before the 9/11 attacks. Giuliani became a hero after the attacks and has maintained that image ever since. But Barrett has just co-written a new book that questions his handling of the situation. In Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani, Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins argue that Giuliani's leadership may have exacerbated the crisis. Plus, the Fringe Festival turns 10.
There was a very odd moment in today's press conference. It was so odd that I checked two different video captures to make sure it wasn't an edit. About 1:55 into this clip, he stops mid-sentence, softly mumbles something with his eyes closed, and then resumes. Maybe he's whispering to someone off frame, but it looks like glossilalia or a fugue to me. Just strange.
Lance: Angelina' s a goddess.
Intelligent and discerning reader: Are you out of your mind! She looks like a Barbie doll with a face designed by a cross-eyed Cubist who's terrified of real women!
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