Who Killed the Electric Car?

If you do one passive couch-potato act in 2008, watch “Who Killed the Electric Car”.  It’s floating around the internet somewhere, just reel it in with a combination of Isohunt and Azureus.
Are we all idiots?  Why are we not driving electric?  Why does it take an Indian company to market the only electric car that [...]

Grounded from a Distance

Helen, it seems, is grounded.  I was informed in international stereo, from the background hubbub over the Yahoo Messenger link, as my wife carefully explained her rationale while various items were displaced somewhere near her.  Grounded, it seems, is not what it was, not what it used to be in the monochrome sixties.  In fact, were [...]

Bowled Over

The life of the mind sometimes breaks through from the neurone zone to the concrete and flesh down on the street.  Walking uphill to “J” and “K” Buildings at Woosong University, laughing with Liz about what we would do with our 1,000 won per student honorarium for our morning’s forced labour and enjoying the thought [...]