It's a great recipe. Test the sauce for flavor. This is relatively tame, but I like to add a little more pepper and salt to mine. Check out Penzey's if you don't have the right spices.

We use S3 for a few brands. Very solid, but again requires a developer to truly leverage it. I had reservations about Limelight because I thought they had pending litigation with Akamai. CacheFly is one to watch. I think they may be aggressive this year.

As for cloud/grid, I use grid hosting for this blog. After having hosted the site at Dreamhost and Brinkster and having significant resource issues (PHP running out of memory), I've had zero issues with my grid host.

Actually, I didn't make the claim that gas savings was the reason they promoted this program. As you'll note clearly in the first paragraph, I believe they intended it as a stimulus to the automotive industry. The stipulation for the carbon reduction clause (by way of improved mileage) wasn't the justification of the program, it was a political move to ensure enough support from members of Congress who are more environmentally concerned.

The point of this "wacky post" is that the true benefit of the Cash for Clunkers won't be known. You mention a $14B impact to the economy. That may happen, but a study from the German government that was released after my post raises the same concerns as I did (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12516728135817079..." target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12516728135817079... This may not have stimulated unique demand, and may not lead to sustainable recovery.

Recent update, the Cash for Clunkers incentive is taxable income.
http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=0,8...

I'd like to see if they did this for some reason like erosion control. That looks like fairly unstable ground. They might have also been trying to plant some sort of seed in the ground.

The green "paint" along the sides of highways is actually grass seed embedded sometimes in algae and other nutrients. This bedding helps provide the grass seed with enough nutrition to grow and keeps the seed from blowing away. It's green because of the ingredients in the bedding. Other areas use straw as bedding.

We do lop the top off mountains for coal, but I've never seen it painted.

Thanks Doug. Yep, the survey was focused towards the digerati. I was primarily interested in the intersection between Oprah and Twitter users, so the key data point there was overlap. There is bias there, but I don't think it's material (would've needed that group to provide fact).

Oprah.com\'s online audience is a fair representation of her potential that would use Twitter. That\'s not a stretch. A user that visits Oprah.com is likely to be a viewer of the show, but has a base technical ability required to leverage Twitter. Are there Oprah viewers that don\'t visit Oprah.com? Absolutely, but we have no logical reason to believe the differ from the audience that does visit Oprah.com. Using Oprah.com\'s numbers are also an acceptable assumption in they be more similar to the actual segments of her audience that would be willing to try Twitter.

I would challenge the argument that stay-at-home mom\'s aren\'t enamored with computers. They may not be as engaged as 20-somethings, but experience working with clients in this segment shows this group consistently demonstrates interest and a stronger need to socialize, two key drivers for the adoption of social media.

Regardless how you read the tea leaves, the differences you mention in segments were in fact one of the main reasons for the post. Oprah\'s audience is aging and she is distancing herself from new viewers. My argument is that Oprah, more than Twitter, would have benefited from the ability to reach and engage new viewers.