http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/09/22/0922mil...

One of the things that I have often wondered was what was going to happen when people shift to alternative fuels to power their vehicles. How is the government going to pay to maintain the roads? At the moment, most of the Federal funding that is devoted to maintaining our road systems comes from revenue from a tax levied on how many gallons of gas you pump into your car. Though this article from the Austin American Statesman only discusses reduced tax revenue due to increased fuel efficiency, those of us who drive electric cars have been getting a hefty break because, well... we don't pump fuel into our cars.

http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/...

'Nuff said.

Not healthy... but not dead. Seems the founder has DEEEEEEEP pockets. Here's hoping they keep increasing sales. I sure wish I could get a set in my car...

http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v98n04/2006-40.pdf

Trying to figure out how to link to maps from location info in III... This is a report from the Law Library Journal.

Customizing the Bibliographic Record Display

Looks like this will do what we want...

and this.

http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&sto...

University of Pittsburgh
University Times
Volume 38, Number 23, July 20, 2006

From the site:

From a windowless room on the third floor of an office building in Point Breeze, a handful of Pitt employees are poised to make their digital mark on human history.

Armed with stacks of antique books, a scanner and library administrators’ willingness to share, Pitt’s Digital Research Library is a partner in a project launched in 2005 by Yahoo! and the Internet Archive to build a searchable digital collection of the world’s books and multimedia content.

http://www.opencontentalliance.org/

from the site:

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. The OCA was conceived by the Internet Archive and Yahoo! in early 2005 as a way to offer broad, public access to a rich panorama of world culture.