Odds and ends, 4/2/07

So I walked into a discount store yesterday and saw a display for a new soft drink coming soon: Diet Coke with vitamins and minerals. I checked the Coke site on the Web and found these brands owned by the Coca-Cola Co.:

Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Black Cherry Vanilla
Coca-Cola Blak
Coca-Cola C2
Coca-Cola Citra
Coca-Cola with Lemon
Coca-Cola with Lime
Coca-Cola with Raspberry
Coca-Cola Zero


caffeine free Coca-Cola
caffeine free Diet Coke/Coca-Cola light


diet cherry Coke
Diet Coke/Coca-Cola light
Diet Coke Black Cherry Vanilla
Diet Coke Citra/Coca-Cola light Citra
Diet Coke Sweetened with Splenda
Diet Coke with Lemon/Coca-Cola light with Lemon
Diet Coke with Lime/Coca-Cola light with Lime
Diet Coke with Raspberry
diet Vanilla Coke

These are just the Coke brands.

How many more are coming?

How many do we need? As many as we will buy.

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In advance of the IPCC report coming out soon on global warming, here is the kind of science story I like to read. Actually, it's a news release, but it goes into much better detail than mainstream "March was warm, so that proves global warming" garbage we get from most media outlets.

It turns out that the parts of California that warmed the most in the last half of the 20th Century were urban areas. Parts of the state even had a decrease in average temperature. The primary culprit, other than urbanization, would have been long-term changes in the temperature of the Pacific ocean.

I plan to read this thing in more detail as I can.

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There's a new faraway land where tech companies are outsourcing their work to. It's a place called North Dakota.

Demographically speaking, North Dakota and West Virginia share many similarities.

After that, I'll let you draw your own conclusions.

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One last thing. Today is Opening Day for major league baseball, and I don't care.