$3.99 coffee beans

I didn't believe Chris when he first said it, I thought there was some catch, that this was probably some hoax. But I found it. Biodiesel:

"After a few months of driving 10 miles to a biodiesel fueling station, Toal-Rossi went online to find a recipe and began making his own fuel. Because Toal-Rossi gets the primary ingredient -- used cooking oil -- from a nearby restaurant for free, he spends just 41 cents per gallon to make his 12-liter batches of biodiesel." [link]

The recepie is online, too. [link] The catch is that this is for Diesel engines. This, however, is inspiring. Maybe, oh, just maybe, we'll break our gasoline addiction. Someday. Read the Slashdot. [link]

Cincinnati almost had a subway. Now it has caves. [link] [more]

This spring I wrote a paper about destroyed cities. The destruction of a city is an apocalypse. I chose to discuss Pompeii, Troy, the fires of Chicago and London, Dresden, and Hiroshima. I left out Centralia, PA [city evacuated because of long-term underground coal mine fires] and Atlantis. Cetralia was a space decison, it didn't add to the paper. Atlantis was an intelectual decision, it would be devious to mention a "mythical" city in any detail as an example of post-catastrophe planning. But, I should have reconsidered. [link] Was Plato honest?

Finally, 50 Coolest Song Parts. [link]

addendum: two wikipedia links found during post. relegated to the dustbin of the bottom of this post. [apocalypse] [psychohistory]