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Friday, June 25, 2004

W I R E D N E W S Top Stories - 09:15AM 23.Jun.04.PDT
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More False Information From TSA (Politics 8:55 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,63958,00.html/wn_ascii

It keeps getting worse. Turns out more airlines secretly turned over
sensitive passenger information to the Transporation Security
Administration than previously admitted, raising questions about
whether government employees broke the law. By Ryan Singel.
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Profiting From Political Urgency (Politics 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,63951,00.html/wn_ascii

Sensing the importance of this year's election, organizations on the
political left and right are shelling out as much as $10,000 for
Votenet's voter-registration software. But will the company's products
actually produce voters on Election Day? By Louise Witt.
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Stars Power Move to Green Energy (Autopia 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,63883,00.html/wn_ascii

Driven by a desire to lessen America's dependence on fossil fuels,
actors like Cameron Diaz, Ed Begley Jr. and Dennis Weaver hop on the
green-power bandwagon. By John Gartner.
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Rocket Fuel Found in Moo Juice (Med-Tech Center Tuesday)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,63948,00.html/wn_ascii

Researchers detect small amounts of perchlorate -- the explosive
ingredient in missile fuel that has been linked to thyroid damage -- in
milk from California cows.
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File-Trading Bill Stokes Fury (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,63969,00.html/wn_ascii

A new bill would make it illegal to 'induce' people to steal copyright
materials. It could help the recording industry fight piracy, but
opponents say it targets any device that could store or play pirated
files. By Joanna Glasner.
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Florida: Felon List Not for Copy (Machine Politics 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63972,00.html/wn_ascii

State officials respond to a CNN suit, saying they don't have to give
the media copies of a felon list. Preventing felons from voting in
Florida elections may disenfranchise legitimate voters. Jacob Ogles
reports from Orlando.
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Digging for E-Voting Skulduggery (Machine Politics 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63954,00.html/wn_ascii

Electronic-voting activists suspect that some election officials who
ardently defend touch-screen voting machines are in the pockets of the
machine makers. So one nonprofit is digging into the issue. By Kim
Zetter.
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Florida to Tax Home Networks (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,63962,00.html/wn_ascii

Home and small businesses with two or more networked computers may be
subject to a communications tax in Florida. No one seems to want the
tax, but it's moving along anyway. By Michelle Delio.
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The AWEA's annual expo:
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March 28-31, 2004

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Why I Publish This Blog:

"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine.
The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature
differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.
Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the
way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on
agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good
manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's
more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us
right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have
a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."