Refenestration Daily.
From the track-junkies mailing list is this page from Consumer Reports listing the releases dates for 2003 cars. From “Acura” to “Volkswagon”, they’re all there.
Some dates are more general (the 2003 Acura RSX is listed as “October 2002”), while others can be quite specific (the 2003 GMC Envoy is listed as “8/09/02”).
MSNBC has a write-up on a study by the Automotive Lease Guide on car resale values. Any monkey could guess that “brands such as Chevrolet and Ford ranked below average, while European brands and top Japanese brands did well”, but it goes into more than just that:
The winners: Volkswagen among the mass market-manufacturers and Mercedes-Benz among the luxury makers. [&hellip]
Behind Volkswagen in the mass-market category were Honda, Toyota, Subaru, and Nissan. Following Mercedes were luxury-makers BMW, Acura, Lexus and Audi. […]
On par with resale value, for me, is a vehicle’s fun-to-drive factor. But, it seems that American cars aren’t doing so well there, either :-/.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the Nevada Conference of Police and Sheriffs have endored [ballot] Question 9 — which would decriminalize possession of 3 ounces or less of marijuana in Nevada.
“The historic endorsement of the marijuana initiative by Nevada’s largest law-enforcement organization is good news for Nevadans because it means that we’re one step closer to ensuring that law-enforcement officers will have more time to go after murderers, rapists, kidnappers and other violent criminals,” said NRLE spokesperson Billy Rogers.
NCOPS President Andy Anderson said, “As a former law-enforcement officer, I know that a simple marijuana arrest can take me off the street for several hours and sometimes for over half of my shift. … We could better spend our time responding to more life-threatening and serious incidents.” […]
It’s been theorized that there is no perfect voting system, but Instant Runoff Voting still has a lot going for it. And, if passed, ballot measure 1 in Alaska would ensure Instant Runoff Voting would be used in Alaska for all state and federal offices, including the President and U.S. Senate (but not including the governor, for state constitutional reasons).
If you’re not familiar with Instant Runoff Voting, check out this “how it works” page for a simple walk-through. In a nutshell, voters rank each candidate on their election ballots.
Rock on. I hope that passes.
For those of you using the Orbit theme for Mozilla, there’s a new version available. Well, ok, I suppose that a June 27th release doesn’t make it all that “new”, but it’s certainly newer than the last version I spoke about. One of the things that I noticed in this newer version is that it provides for greater degree of theming for the preferences dialogs.
If you haven’t tried the themes for Mozilla beyond the built-in Classic and Modern, there are now quite a few good ones available (including my current favorite, Orbit).