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POPSSimple Low-Tech Home Wins Prize For Sustainability
Woodruff's house uses just 25% of the energy of a conventional house of the same size. His winter power costs are a $30 electricity bill each month and a cord of wood. In the summer, power is needed only for the hot water heater and appliances. Yet the little 1,100-sq.-ft. house is as straightforward as you can get. No high-tech gizmos. No elaborate contortions. The house relies on simple architectural principles -- windows oriented for sunlight, cross breezes for ventilation, overhangs for shade -- basics that were much lauded in the 1940s and '50s, but less emphasized since. They included large doors that can be opened for cross-breezes. They designed the heating so energy is used and reused within rooms. The living/ dining/kitchen area is one big room heated by a wood stove on rainy days, and the sun on sunny days. "The public rooms face east, the logic being you want those to heat up with the sun first in the winter and in the summer, you want to avoid the hot western sun.
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POPSJury Nullification Nullified Young tried to assure the jury that the federal drug laws are constitutional because the Supreme Court has interpreted the commerce clause quite expansively. I'm glad someone is questioning the expansive interpretations some on the bench have about the constitution.
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POPSRevolutionary Washer Cleans with Nuts It's a revolution, hope they will product it as soon as possible. Maybe it will cost more than an average washer, but hey, you save from buying chemical soap and do not harm nature!
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POPSJury considered $3.6 Million download award They had awarded $9,250 a song for 24 songs. They could legally award up to $150,000 per song. They decided on the figure by getting the jury to put numbers in a hat-literally. The lowest possible award according to the law for a guilty verdict, was $18,000 for 24 songs. Seems like the record companies are trying to lay the blame on the jury, the charged, but that is the law. It's clear the kind of artists the record companies are. They just worked out how to make piracy legal. The conversion a work from one format to another without explicit permission of the actual creator, for the sake of profit, is tantamount to plagiarism.
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POPSDeath Penalth Denied for Juan Luna In Illinois it takes 12 jurors to unanimously recommend the death penalty in order for that sentence to be imposed. One juror chose to spare the life of Juan Luna, convicted of multiple murder at a Brown's Chicken store in the Chicagoland area. While we may never know the motives of the holdout, unless she decided to come forward, I want to applaud her conscious choice in withholding her vote to put this convicted killer to death. Luna proclaims his innocence. He was convicted on circumstantial physical evidence. If there is one chance in 10,000 that the conviction is in error and Luna's claims are, in fact, true then it is clear that life in prison is the proper course of punishment.
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