Stuffis

Still "Brent's pile o' stuff" but at least now there are sections.

Society

Alternative Energy

• NEW The QinetiQ Zephyr solar-powered UAV (a.k.a. the "eternal plane")
• Nissan Land Glider concept car — very narrow (2-passenger) all-electric vehicle that leans into turns like a motorcycle
• Micro Wind Generation
• Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does: "This means that switchgrass ethanol delivers 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, compared with just roughly 25 percent more energy returned by corn-based ethanol according to the most optimistic studies."
• Google.org's RE<C (Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal) and RechargeIT (plug-in vehicles) initiatives

Fiscal Responsibility

• The Concord Coalition
• Taxpayers for Common Sense
• U. S. National Debt Clock
• U. S. Federal Funds Rate graph

Small Housing

• Shipping container dormitory in Amsterdam

Politics

• Lawrence Lessig article on why transparency alone will not fix our distrust of the system

My contact information, brief autobiography (such as it is), and family tree.