Links of interest for January 24th, 2008 through February 20th, 2008:

• WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: My Other Car is a Bright Green City
  - Our vehicle emissions are a major climate change contributor, but what comes out of the tailpipe is only a fraction of the total impact of driving a car,which is only a part of the environmental and social damage cars cause.
• cityofsound: The street as platform
  - A science-fictional look at the clouds of data surrounding a typical street in the near future, based on technologies already available and in use. Fascinating!
• What Would Happen If We Adopted The Gold Standard?
  - "Not only would the gold standard have disastrous effects for the U.S. economy, it would undermine liberty, increase debt, and weaken the country."
• Why Insurers Suck
  - A quick explanation of why health insurance doesn’t work, and how to fix it.
• How SubPrime Really Works
  - A very clear explanation of the subprime meltdown in pictures.
• American Leftist
  - The skull beneath the skin of the nation-state shows its teeth in a proposal to stop nuclear proliferation by pre-emptive nuclear attacks.