November 27, 2006 in Business

Near biofuel, near fill-up

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www.nearbio.com

If you’re looking to reduce your dependence on foreign oil, NearBio.com is at your service. The Web site tracks the location of major sellers of biofuel across the country.

The site updates its database daily, looking for new entries and removing ones that are no longer active. One nice feature is the option of allowing cell phones to find locations. Instructions at the site show how to text a request specifying a ZIP code or even GPS coordinates; a text message will come back with the nearest locations for alternative fuels.

We checked it out; it’s OK for finding Washington state locations. It’s not that great at finding Idaho retailers.

War Against Terror, the online primer

www.ctc.usma.edu/ aq_harmonylist.asp

The truth is al-Qaida and other fundamentalist terror groups love using the Internet. They’ve used the medium abundantly to send tracts across the globe, to proselytize and to coach one another on tactics.

U.S. officials have harvested and collected many of those documents online at the Combating Terrorism Center, based at West Point.

The main page for the center is www.ctc.usma.edu, but the archive of Islamic documents is at a section called Harmony and Disharmony at the link listed above.

If you know Arabic, you can read those documents in the original. The site has every document in English, usually in PDF format. It includes letters, political essays, sample al-Qaida contracts for new recruits and even the group’s bylaws. Good to know what we’re facing.

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