Today is the shortest day of 2007..

But I did learn an important fact that this is not the day with the latest sunrise and the earliest sunset time of the year. The latest sunrise time in a year is sometime during the first week of January and the earliest sunset is sometime in the first/second week of December.

Left turns contributes to global warming...

At least that is what UPS has found out. According to this NY Times article UPS uses a software program that clearly maps out routes for every driver that reduces the number of left turns drastically. This results in huge savings in gas consumption which in turn reduces the CO2 emissions dramatically.
I have never been a fan of left turns and I always try my best to reduce left turns in my driving. I have always looked at it from a time saving perspective but never from a gas saving and global warming perspective. I am glad that my driving habit is contributing to reducing global warming in some small way.

Crap powering street lights in India...

Yes. You read it right. A community near Chennai, India powering their streetlights using human waste. Link via National Geographic. I only wish more and more communities adopt this technology and make this part of a mandate while building communities like this. Rain water harvesting was one such successful initiative and given the power situation and growing population in India, it is only a matter of time when power would become scarce like water.