Enery related CO2 emissions are trending downward, hopefully this trend can continue. Surprisingly, all this happened without a big government mandate. Now, if only we would start using more nuclear power.

The Department of Energy has run the numbers on US carbon emissions in 2009, and found they dropped by about seven percent compared to the previous year, the largest decline the agency has ever seen. Although the economic downturn had been expected to lower emissions, the slowdown in GDP only accounted for about a third of the change. Greater efficiencies, less-energy-intensive activities, and a shift away from coal use accounted for the rest. The numbers haven't been this low since the mid-1990s and, even adjusting for the economy, take us a substantial distance towards President Obama's goal of cutting emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade.

US carbon emissions plunge---not just because of lousy economy

Wondering what's new in CSS3 and HTML5 that is bound to make your life easier, and maybe make you really ditch support for IE6 and maybe IE7?  Read this article from Smashing Magazine for an excellent overview.  It's hard to keep up with the changes that are becoming available in modern browsers and this article summarizes them all and provides links to learn more about each one.

Instead, we're focusing on the specific techniques that you need to know to create modern CSS-based web pages of any style. For each technique or tool, we'll indicate which of the five characteristics it helps meet. To keep this shorter than an encyclopedia, we'll also just cover the basics of each technique, then point you to some useful, hand-picked resources to learn the full details.

Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques - Smashing Magazine

To think I played almost every iteration mentioned in here. I really love the look back, and progression, of the graphics from each game.

From its origins as the offspring of spiritual ancestor Railroad Tycoon to the Facebook-exclusive game Civilization Network, we provide a brief history of Sid Meier's Civilization series.

History of Sid Meier's Civilization , Feature Story from GamePro