Cooling towers can be breeding grounds for legionnaires' disease. Hopefully they've kept that in mind with this system with its damp environment.

I've noticed that most of the new/replaced LED streetlights in my area seem to scatter _much_ less light upward than the sodium vapor lights before them. Could just be the styles that our city/county are implementing. Many of them have such a sharp downware angle that I can't tell they're on until I get within a few hundred yards of them on the highway.

Because of the First Sale Doctrine https://www.google.com/search?...

...it's run by the local bank. It gives a quick advertisement for the bank, then time and temperature. Many organizations in town use it as the "official" temperature in town - "sportsball practice is cancelled if the temp is below X degrees, call time and temp for the temperature". It's number is 320-587-4700...not sure how many concurrent calls it can handle :-)

Other manufacturers have had similar vehicle location/diagnostics systems available for quite a while. Not just "evil" Verizon: See also http://www.delphiconnect.com/f... & OnStar

I think that system was known as "Long Lines"

http://www.drgibson.com/towers... http://www.coldwarcomms.org/ https://www.google.com/search?...

I wish I had a push bumper on my car to give the people still sitting at a green light a little "nudge". It would be much more fun than laying on the horn. I'd love to see their reaction...

Plastic bottles aren't exactly UV-stable...

I'm assuming the name's a reference to this guy: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Wheezy_(Toy_Story)

My community of ~15,000 in outstate Minnesota just finished a 10 year project of burying _everything_ but the 69kV lines feeding their substations. We have a municipal electric/gas utility here, not a for-profit one. Reliability is much better now than it was 10 years ago...of course all of the underground stuff is new. Give it a couple decades... -Dave

This should be a good chunk of them. There's probably quite a few other AS #s for China as well: http://www.bgpmon.net/ASinfo.php?AS=4134

MWC was bought by Alltel last year. In fact, they just announced plans to lay off many of the MWC employees at the company's headquarters in Mankato. They were a great company customer service wise, and in terms of how much they supported charities in Mankato & southern MN. It's kinda sad to see them get swallowed up.

For central/southern Minnesota, Midwest Wireless is by far the best carrier in terms of coverage. I laugh at the people who get a "good deal" with Sprint/Tmobile/etc, only to have dismal or no service as soon as they step off of a major highway.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17498096/