Record high oil prices, climate changes and the dependency on a small number of non-friendly oil producing countries have made alternative and clean energy a desirable trend. Clean and cheap energy is not just a game for big energy corporations and governments. At the end of the day, its money out of the pocket of almost everyone driving a car or using electricity.Making your own bio diesel requires some work. But it does make you feel good when your car accelerates on diesel you made from your very own extra cooking oil. You can just smell those French fries when you hit the gas.What is Biodiesel"Biodiesel is most commonly made by chemically altering an organic oil through the use of a catalyst and an alcohol, typically Methanol.

Scientists have developed a system that picks up the subtle cues of plant communicationGreen fingered amateur gardeners often talk to their plants; now the plants can talk back. Scientists have developed a system that picks up the subtle cues of plant communication helping plant growers to monitor the crop’s state of health and will result in optimal environmentally-friendly growing conditions.Funded under the European Commission’s FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) initiative of the IST programme, the PLANTS project sought to develop a unique system that linked plants, technology and people to continuously assess the state of crop health.

    A research, published online in the March 2006 issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, offers mathematical approach to analysis of humpback whale songs. The results show that humpback whales have their own syntax that uses sound units to build phrases that can be combined to form songs. Until now, only humans have demonstrated the ability to use such a hierarchical structure of communication.Ryuji Suzuki, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) predoctoral fellow in neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and first author of the paper.

A video of a story by CBS is storming the web and ignites dispute over the distribution of copyrighted material in video sharing web sites.  The movie is about an autistic high school student,Jason McElwain, who was assisting the coach of a basketball team and got a chance to play in the last game of the season. The rest is history. Watch the movie  here. It’s a must-see.The movie was posted on www.Youtube.com video sharing website and became one of their top viewed videos. CBS then demanded that Youtube remove the copyrighted movie. Youtube complied but its users uploaded it again.

A pretty cool idea - write something and it will be spelled out in pictures from Flickr. A picture is worth a thousand words so look at these examples:  Another nice one:      

    AOL and Yahoo, are about to start using a system that gives corporate emails premium service for a fee paid on per- email basis The service will allow the emails to bypass spam checks and image removal and reach the destination inbox, reducing the risk of losing them in the spam folder. The users of the system are obliged to use it only for legitimate emails. Otherwise they will be banned from the service. According to New York times' Saul Hansell, price of a message will vary from 0.25 cent to 1 cent.   Read More at NYT  

 Blog Herald estimates the number of existing blogs at 200 Million.Think of it this way- approximately every 5th of the estimated 1,018,057,389 web users (according to Internet world stats) has a blog. In other words, there are m-a-n-y bloggers out there with readership of 1. In case they read their own blog.What the overwhelming number really means is that the public has taken publishing into their own hands. Competition over readers is fierce and the best will win. Another implication is that individual blogs are getting harder to find in the sea of blogs. So more and more bloggers should consider writing for open blogs like linkadelic magazine.This cannot be bad for the readers and web users.

    Kottke.org weblog has conducted an interesting survey. To decide which media type has more influence today. Newspapers' online websites, blogs or citizen media sites. The news media is changing. While in the past big newspapers and magazines had the authority over news, it seems like it is changing in favor of other types of media. The contesters: New York Times – one of the most respected and leading newspapers. Blogs - by individuals and groups who catch the news and spread it via feeds. Citizen media – Websites such as wikipedia.com who accept posts from their users.

A person's preferences in music is hard to define. Sometimes a single track from an album make you feel like it's what you were looking for all the time while the rest of the album is just not it. Wouldn't it be great to have a radio station which actually know you and fits the tracks to your personal taste ?  Pandora is trying to do just that by asking you to name a track or band you like. From this information they decipher what makes your ears happy and play other tracks." Pandora™ is the doorway to this vast trove of musical information. With Pandora you can explore to your heart's content.

Could the deployment of this system save many Israeli civilians lives? More than 2500 Rockets were fired on Israeli civilians during the recent war against Hisbulla. The answer could be the  MTHEL. The Tactical High Energy Laser uses a high-energy, deuterium fluoride chemical laser to protect against attack by short range unguided (ballistic flying) rockets.