links for 2006-10-19

"Arcadia Green, an eight-unit Evanston condo development that uses the latest in “green" technology to supply 92 percent of the heating, cooling and domestic hot water in the building"

"The company has been unfairly characterized as a pirate Web site," Vadim Mamotin, AllofMP3.com's director general, said through a translator. "Nothing could be further from the truth." AllofMP3.com typically charges under $1 for an entire album and just

"entire political movement over the last 20 years has been fueled by sleazy sexual innuendo; dragging private sexual behavior into the public arena for fun, profit and political gain; and exploiting the gay issue to drive people to vote for them"

"The protagonist of A Taste of Cherry drives around a desolate desert community looking for someone to do a well-paying menial job."

good fracking question. Denny the Menace's deal looks a lot more like corruption than Harry Reids

" gargantuan lists have to be widely circulated, the CIA won't allow the names of actual terrorist suspects to be added to them -- in other words, the No Fly lists only contain the names of people who aren't under any serious suspicion."

"Gilbert Arenas had something he needed to get off of his chest: He is getting sick and tired of being labeled, "quirky" and he wanted to talk to me about it - with every player in the locker room serving as the audience."