I found a good read on an alternative fuel source in a slashdot thread yesterday.

The idea … funnel agricultural runoff or even animal and human sewage into ponds and grow algae in them. The algae can then be processed into a vegetable oil and refined into biodiesel. Get Detroit producing diesel-electric hybrids and we can be oil independent for $50B a year (we now spend $100-150B on foreign oil, they say).

I don’t know how reliable this paper is, but it does have a lot of numbers and also makes a good case against the viability of hydrogen as a fuel source. A good read for the bus ride home.

Forever and a day, my fraternity has been maintaining a mailing list. For many years, it was the Onelist until the Yahoo! behemouth absorbed it (We still use YahooGroups. Why? ‘Cause it don’t cost nothin’.)

Why does this matter?

Well, the dude who started Onelist is working a new site called Bloglines. It offers the two important features of being 1. Free and 2. Actually pretty useful.

I’ve been meaning to write up Neal Stephenson’s In the Beginning Was the Command Line for a while. Good stuff though a bit dated.

Some dude got permission from Mr. Stephenson to post the entire essay, annotated to the state of the art in 2004. You can read it here. Lots and lots of links.

It’s been slashdotted so the site may go down sometime today, but it’s interesting. I know that my evening is shot. Which is all right, since it’s snowing…