Damek.

So, that’s done. [UPDATE: No it isn't.] Have fun. Not much new, though there are some pictures from last summer’s Oxford vacation that I hadn’t put up when I wrote about it on the blog. Old posts that had pictures have been changed to link to those pictures in the gallery.
In unrelated [...]

Green roofs gaining ground — so that’s good, then.
Unrelated, signs of the housing bubble bursting. So is it a good or bad time to buy a home? In a building in Manhattan?

Along those lines, Glenn at The Oil Drum NYC points out the schism betwen political image and political reality (repeated in this comment on a main page post).
Seriously. Hastert sneaked off to an SUV from his gas price event? Schumer drove a block to his? I remember growing up when our dog [...]

So there’s a lot of political posturing going around with this whole gas price issue. My fear is that those of us who view America’s oil dependence as an engineering problem will be drowned out by the shouting of those who insist on making it a moral issue. (This comes from both sides.)
See, [...]

The folks over at The Oil Drum have come together to issue a consensus press release, essentially arguing that both Republicans and Democrats are headed in the wrong direction on gasoline prices. Party leaders seem to think that oil companies alone set the price of gasoline. This is false. The American people need to understand [...]