News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Loose $8.4 Billion and be eligible for $160 mil severance Package.

Stan O’Neil, the CEO of Merrill Lynch got canned today for loosing $8.4 billion last quarter speculating in sub prime mortgages. His se...

Plastic Panic

The News Hour with Jim Lehrer reported that a chemical used to make polycarbonate plastic (the clear hard stuff used for Nalgenes and plasti...

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The price of Greenness.

Some real numbers on hybrid cars. Car Cost,new MPG (City&Hwy) Toyota Corolla $14926 32 Toyo...

The mark of an advanced economy

I'm getting my exercise, walking down a rural back road the other day. Along the way a bright yellow backhoe is putting in a new septi...

Big new hanger at Groom Lake (aka Area 51)

The new hanger is recently closed in. Siding and roof are up, which is most of the work, there is little finish carpentry to do in an aircr...

Sunday, October 28, 2007

What kind of war are we fighting? And can we win it?

Title of the lead article in this month’s Commentary magazine. Fifteen notable foreign policy experts agree that we are fighting World W...

For Malpractice suits try a fetal heart rate monitor

Long WSJ article about obstetricians, fetal heart rate monitors, rates of Cesarean section, and malpractice suits. It brought back memori...

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