A news site has 20 fuel-saving tips. It includes the standard ones, but also a few you don’t hear as frequently:
–Finding your vehicles “sweet spot.” I realize that vehicles have different efficient speed “sweet spots,” but I didn’t realize it might be as fast as 85 m.p. h. I have no idea what it is for my car, because I typically mix in significant city driving on a typical tank. Maybe I should be driving faster.
–Parking in the shade to avoid gasoline evaporation.
–Wait to get gas until the tank is almost empty–less weight to haul around.
–Buy gas on Wednesdays: statistically the cheapest day of the week.
I was amused by the “Don’t stop” tip. It’s a good one, one that I often do. But I was kind of surprised by the way they present it; it’s as if they are encouraging people to roll through stop signs.
UPDATE: The aforementioned rolling stop slide make Keith Olbermann’s Worse Person of the World!

Is this part of the re-election agenda?

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen wants the state to do a better job at preparing students for careers at Wal-Mart. But he’s not talking about stocking shelves or checking out customers at the retail giant.
Instead, Bredesen wants to tailor community college programs to offer courses on retail management.
. . .
While no formal arrangement has been struck, Bredesen and Wal-Mart officials agreed to work on developing a curriculum.
Bredesen told The Associated Press he would consider an arrangement where community colleges teach Wal-Mart-specific skills, if the company would agree to guarantee jobs for graduates with good grades.

It’s great to provide students with skills employers want. But I’m curious not only how many jobs this would impact, but also how much middle management Wal-Mart jobs actually pay? Does this make sense from an public cost/benefit standpoint?

Professor Cole has an interesting post touching on the oil component of our tension with Iran.
A theory posits that we have a short window of opportunity to deal with the Iranian problem (with its oil) before it goes nuclear. Is it just a coincidence that the Project for the New American Century crowd (and its mouthpieces) has recently ramped up the “World War III” rhetoric?

Already has a website.
UPDATE: The reference is to this.
Somewhat related, The Atlantic has a good read on the history of Wikipedia. One quote:

In June 2001, only six months after Wikipedia was founded, a Polish Wikipedian named Krzysztof Jasiutowicz made an arresting and remarkably forward-looking observation. The Internet, he mused, was nothing but a “global Wikipedia without the end-user editing facility.”

Good point.

There was enough irony in the Mel Gibson arrest story to last one or two days on TV news. But we certainly didn’t need what’s shaping up to be a whole week of wall to wall coverage. And that was true before I saw Scarborough Country’s little experiment last night of having a producer simulate Mel’s intoxication.
We’ve now entered hysteria territory.