Posted By Russ Emerson on August 9, 2003 at 5:52 pm
“[California Governor] Davis has signed an ill-advised ban on PBDEs, a flame retardant popular especially with high-tech manufacturers in California (you all have them in your computers). The EU, naturally, banned PBDE’s several years ago, and now has much higher rates of computer fires and injuries from other kinds of fires in products that used to have PBDEs.
“Funny; I’d have thought Davis would be in favor of flame retardants at the moment, since he is about to be torched.”
Steve Hayward, in NRO’s The Corner
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Posted By Russ Emerson on August 8, 2003 at 7:51 pm
1. What’s the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country?
New England. A three-day swing through Massachussetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. No, I’m not running in any presidential primary. Yes, it was hell.
2. What’s the most bizarre/unusual thing that’s ever happened to you while traveling?
Hmm. I blogged on this just yesterday. Fancy that. Not much to it, but frankly, I like my travel free of bizarre events.
3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?
Space. And not just a wussy near-Earth orbit — it’d be at least as far as the Moon, but Mars would be far cooler (literally and metaphorically.)
4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car?
Depends on how far I have to go. Going cross-country, or indeed any farther than a day’s drive, the train rules — hands down, no contest.
5. What’s the next place on your list to visit?
Gettysburg. I must tour that battlefield. It’s a moral imperative – I’m an American, after all.
And I’ll stop at a peaceful field near Shanksville, too.
That’s my Friday Five.
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