CutePDF Writer is a free download, based on open source. It lets any Windows program "print" to a PDF file. Seems to work very smoothly, no adware or shareware pestering.

This is one of those sites everyone is blogging, but I can't resist. Fundrace 2004 show how much your neighbors, or anyone, are donating to presidential candidates. Just enter a street address and it sorts them by distance -- or enter a name.

The Air Car

A car that runs on compressed air. Inventor Guy Négre has developed a car capable of a top speed of 110 km/h (69 mph), 300 kilometres (188 miles) on one tank of fuel and at a cost of just a penny per kilometre. All of this at "zero pollution". In fact the car cleans the air it uses!

(Thanks to my brother Ralph for the URL.)

Caltech Grad Student Held in Arson Fires of 125 SUVs
Suspect in blazes that caused $3.5 million in damage is traced by FBI agents using e-mail to LA Times.

FBI agents arrested a 23-year-old Caltech graduate student Tuesday and charged him in connection with a brazen string of environmentally motivated attacks last summer that caused more than $3.5 million in damage to four auto dealerships in the San Gabriel Valley.

Well here's a nice scandal in the small Caltech community (only a few hundred grad students). Such excitement at the Milliken Library hasn't been seen since Ken Higgins ran around the edge of the roof barefoot in the rain.

History reveals our debt to Haiti, by Jerry Large
Jerry Large's column today explains the sad history of Haiti, and our part in its downfall. President Jefferson, a slave-holder, is one of the villians. Seems to me we ought to make some kind of amends to the people of Haiti.