Hybrids bah

I knew that we get stiffed in the US when it comes to economical cars, but this is the topper. Ford sells a diesel version of the Fiesta in the UK that gets 73.5 MPG and emits 93g/km of CO2. That's better than the Prius for MPG and almost exactly equal in CO2 emission.
I sure wish they'd let us get these things in the US. I expect there will be increasing pressure to do so over the next few years, as I expect permanent $4/gal gas to hit either this year or next, and we'll probably see $5/gal by 2013.

Neat!

The song that the Futurama theme song was based on. Also a cool video.

Audiobook finished

The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton

Quite good. Two books in one, really, as the "dream" parts are quite a good fantasy novel, the rest quite a good scifi novel.

My listening rate is way down since I only have 40 minutes most days to listen now instead of 90.

Loading up book 3. About time I plugged the player in anyway, I had to delete the unlistened-to 2nd Thomas Covenant book from there before I got tempted to start listening to it.