Wednesday, December 28, 2005

More Renewable Fuels More renewable fuels will be at the pump. U.S. drivers will be able to gas up their vehicles next year with nearly 3 percent of clean-burning, domestic renewable fuels such as ethanol. "This investment in renewable fuels made from domestic crops will support American agriculture and replace fossil fuels with an increasing amount of cleaner-burning alternatives such as ethanol or biodiesel illustrating that environmental progress and economic development can, in fact, go hand-in-hand," said Johnson. [Physics Org] 10:20:13 PM

Bloggers' Top Media Sources Bloggers' top media sources. Here are the top media sources bloggers linked to in 2005, according to BlogPulse: 1 Yahoo! News 2 BBC NEWS 3 The New York Times... By Jonathan Dube. [CyberJournalist.net] 8:48:13 PM

(photo) galah - a kind of cockatoo A galah occasion. O, where are the antipodes of yesteryear? Returned to Western Australia on Christmas Day, land of the light and leaves and the strange vegetation -- the trees lose their bark in the summer instead of their leaves in the winter. [Posted to: MetaStuff] [Antipixel - Excerpts] 8:05:37 PM

Joris Ivens and the Return of the One-Man Crew Joris Ivens and the return of the one-man crew. In the late 1920s, Joris Ivens made his first documentary films working alone with a hand-held 35mm camera. In 1945 he commented that the time of the one-man documentary was over — such were the complications of script, sound, cameras, editing, commentary, and music, that even a team of two or three could not manage it. By 1967 he had thought again, and concluded that technical changes made documentary something for a small team, “a collective of people who understand each other”. Now, 16 years after Ivens’ death, we are back to his starting point, and one person can quite easily make a documentary on his or her own, from the images and sound to the editing and even the production and distribution. [Joris Ivens in Internet Movie Database] [Search for Joris Ivens] [RebelOne] BUY Living Dangerously : A Biography of Joris Ivens at Amazon.com. Your purchase through this link supports Cinema Minima [Cinema Minima: Personal Digital Cinema. News service for movie makers] 9:54:13 AM

Controversy Roils Annapolis, Story by Daniel de Vise Starbucks in tavern riles some in Md. city. The King of France Tavern opened in 1784, when Annapolis, Md., served as the nation's capital, and has hosted generations of lawmakers ever since. Legend has it that a secret tunnel still leads from the tavern's wine cellar to the State House, an ancient escape route for heads of state. [azcentral.com | thebuzz] 9:23:27 AM