semi random yikes

"Exxon Mobil prohibits its employees from talking on the phone while driving company cars. It did so after conducting a study finding that the braking reaction time of phone drivers is three times longer than that of drunk drivers. ExxonMobil researchers also found that phone drivers are as likely to rear-end the car ahead as drunks, and that they are unable to maintain position in their lane. As with all other studies, Exxon Mobil found that it makes no difference whether the driver uses a hands-free phone."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9443-2005Feb8.html
http://www.iii.org/media/hottopics/insurance/cellphones/

+So: phone OR drive.

Much as I hate cell phones, I'd like to see more people taking buses or trains or bikes or rickshaws or one-horse open sleighs, ideally. I am still wondering whether an item seen a few days ago about SUV drivers torching their gas-guzzlers for the insurance was true (or significant).

Today I am wondering how one goes about finding out if biodiesel/SVO fuel requires more or less energy to produce than fuel alcohol (the most efficient to produce sort. Is it butanol?). The main complaint against fuel alcohol seems to be "but we'd have to take some crops [or old corn cobs] currently fed to livestock and make that into fuel!" How about drive less and stop sticking cow chunks into your faces. The phrase "livestock overpopulation" pops into mind.

I am curmudgeonly today.

happy macy's day

Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986, by William S. Burroughs
http://realitystudio.org/texts/thanksgiving_prayer/
http://realitystudio.org/multimedia/thanksgiving_prayer.mov

(seen posted in friendsfriends, by whom I do not recall, and hunted down elsewhere.)

dear blowfish,

Please, for the love of cunt, stop calling it a goddamned "hoo hoo." We are not four.

http://www.humanupgrades.com/ This is dreadful. The photoshopping is vile, and it seems fairly unimaginative as ribofunk goes. +Oh, by the way, that is not worksafe or some-moms-safe or squeamish-safe but the things you shouldn't click on are pretty evident by name, so I doubt I caused anyone trouble.