I am definitely curious to know what Yahoo Research wants to get into, not only because Yahoo! Research Berkeley is only a couple blocks away from my office but because I know a number of bright folks working there.

Group shines light on conservation measures - Catholic Online:

Interfaith Power & Light, active in 21 states
and the District of Columbia, works at educating churches and their
members about how to make a dent in global warming. It's part of the
organization's way of caring for God's creation, and the work is done
on many fronts.

The year following Katrina has been a slow-motion catastrophe:

Indeed, Katrina's aftermath has not proved that
congressional Republicans are devoid of empathy, but rather that they
reserve it for states run by former party chairmen. As of late spring,
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour had wheedled his old friends in
Washington into giving his constituents roughly the same sized block
grant as received by Louisiana--even though Louisiana suffered more
than three times the number of seriously damaged homes and lost one
more major city than its easterly neighbor. The Democrats, meanwhile,
have been disappointingly silent, preferring to focus on GOP
incompetence abroad rather than at home.

I enjoyed the film Yi Yi a lot and look forward to seeing the new Criterion Collection edition of the film: Getting the DVD Transfer Right the Second Time Around - New York Times. Will Netflix carry the new edition?