Some of the final engineering issues have been resolved on the safety and range, but delivery of the first Tesla Roadsters will still be delayed until 2008, according to Autoblog.
Tesla Motors is the Californian company pushing the envelope on a full-electric roadster that performs and looks the equal to any dinosaur-fuel car. Good job [...]

… but now comes the NY Times’ David Brooks to reveal that the far left “netroots” is spent:

The fact is, many Democratic politicians privately detest the netroots’ self-righteousness and bullying. They also know their party has a historic opportunity to pick up disaffected Republicans and moderates, so long as they don’t blow it by drifting [...]

I finally found a PHP-based program to handle on-line display and collaborative editing of a gedcom (genealogy database). TNG - The Next Generation genealogy software has the ability to handle gedcoms over 2MB, a limitation found in most of the open source programs such as phpGedView. And TNG comes with a full set [...]

… does this picture at Jihad Watch strike you as ironic as well?

Captain’s Quarters notes that Pope Benedict XVI has “returned to the role of defender of the faith” in calling for more religious tolerance in Islam:
Apparently, Benedict has given up on appeasement. In this speech, he gets far more direct than he did a year ago, demanding reciprocity from Muslims in very clear and pointed terms. [...]