Hear, hear! I knew LEED wasn't perfect when Fine Homebuilding featured three homes; the smallest had the lowest rating and the largest had the highest rating.

Quoted: although it is not LEED, Energy Star is nothing to sneeze at. There's a lot involved, and it's all great stuff

Quoted: Charles Taylor, the former leader of Liberia, denied committing war crimes. He said he was the victim of a US and British conspiracy. The prosecution now begins its cross-examination in The Hague.

Quoted: Others actually miss the charismatic leader who showered loyalists and foot soldiers with money and benefits.

Quoted: He opened our eyes to things hidden from us, things we never knew about....If the war had not entered here, we would never know these things."

the knowledge of good and evil.

Hmmm. A little suspicious somehow.

Quoted: New Scientist took a look at the relative carbon impact of owning a dog (or cat, or hamster) and owning an SUV like a Toyota Land Cruiser. The results, plotted in the chart above, may surprise you.

Here's the definitive list. GR isn't in the top ten; it's 30th. Obviously, faulty data. At least we have this going for us: "unusually high voter-participation." Minneapolis is 4th, Eunice. But there is Brett Favre...

Quoted: Which metropolis has the most intelligent residents? The Daily Beast crunched the data on the brainpower of America’s 55 largest cities, from first-to-worst. How did your hometown rank?

Hmm. Yay Dianne! Technical writers rank two spots behind professors for stress-free jobs. Now you know why we're laid back. (We are, aren't we?)

Quoted: Add in the summer vacations, long holiday breaks and near total job security for tenured positions, and it's no wonder college professors have such high job satisfaction

guess not

Quoted: Take this quiz to find out...if you fit the billionaire profile

The ice house project is interesting. The pictures and info about Detroit housing really good, especially the ones that compare circa 1950 to now.

Quoted: Detroit is a depopulated city with many areas returning to open space prairie land

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Quite the dust devil.

I got a link to this from today's APOD, which shows the effects of dust devils on Mars.

Cool!