Two versions are available for '96 and later model bikes (possibly even non-Harleys. I don't know.)

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SUVs Keep Rolling

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Cisco Rolling Out Big New Box

Rolling out next generation's net

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Like a Rolling Stone, Only It's Dylan

On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone

A Trailer Becomes a Rolling Abode

Diesels Rolling Back Into U.S.

Rolling Up Dead Dot Coms

The Rotundus Rolling Robot

On the Rails: Rolling Without Roaming

Shape-shifting rolling robots

"The rolling robots perform well on flat surfaces and can even scale 20-degree slopes. By flattening itself as much as possible and then pinging back to a circular shape - driven by the elasticity of the outer rim - a robot can leap 8 centimetres into the air. The engineers say that by combining three wheels in a mutually perpendicular arrangement, it should be possible to build a ball-shaped, steerable robot."

Virtual PC 7 starts rolling out in
October

Is Mac OS X 'Tiger' Rolling Over on
Windows Support?

Danny Seo, rolling in green
(USATODAY.com)

Peak oil article in Rolling Stone

There's some argument about the year of the peak, but pretty much everyone agrees -- including the US government -- that the peak is fewer than a couple of decades away. A lot of experts says we've already hit the peak. James Howard Kunstler's piece in Rolling Stone, called "The Long Emergency," argues that the US hit its peak decades ago:

The United States passed its own oil peak -- about 11 million barrels a day -- in 1970, and since then production has dropped steadily. In 2004 it ran just above 5 million barrels a day (we get a tad more from natural-gas condensates). Yet we consume roughly 20 million barrels a day now. That means we have to import about two-thirds of our oil, and the ratio will continue to worsen.

The U.S. peak in 1970 brought on a portentous change in geoeconomic power. Within a few years, foreign producers, chiefly OPEC, were setting the price of oil, and this in turn led to the oil crises of the 1970s. In response, frantic development of non-OPEC oil, especially the North Sea fields of England and Norway, essentially saved the West's ass for about two decades. Since 1999, these fields have entered depletion. Meanwhile, worldwide discovery of new oil has steadily declined to insignificant levels in 2003 and 2004.

Reader comment: Alex Steffan at WorldChanging says "you might be interested in reading these:"

The Post-Oil Megacity (why I think Kunstler's wrong on the implications of the end of cheap oil)

The best counter-argum ent to nuclear as climate-change-solution I've yet read:

and my favorite take on the issue

why the Europeans, especially the Germans, are kickin' our butt on renewables

and why better computing (in the form of "smart grids") is part of the answer

Reader comment: Brian Carnell says: "I like nuclear power plants as much as the next guy, but the chart here shows the real reason oil discoveries have leveled off -- until recently, we had an almost two decade collapse in oil prices.

"The late 1990s saw the lowest prices for oil *EVER*. That doesn't create much incentive to find new oil deposits (just as few people were interested in exploiting the North Seas until oil went through the roof in the 1970s.)

"If these oil prices continue, they'll almost certainly spur another round of intensive oil exploration and exploitation that will once again find yet more oil." Link

UPDATE: Here's another interesting article about Peak Oil.

Colin Campbell of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) predicts that production will begin its decline between now and 2010.

British Petroleum exploration consultant Francis Harper believes it will happen between 2010 and 2020. Consulting firm PFC Energy puts it at around 2010 to 2015. The publication Petroleum Review predicts that demand will outstrip supply in 2007. Richard Heinberg, author of the 2003 book, The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, expects a peak in 2007 or 2008.

Retired Princeton professor Kenneth Deffeyes, author of the just-published, Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak is more pessimistic, and more specific, about when the peak will happen: Thanksgiving Day, 2005. (His tongue appears to be in his cheek regarding the day, but not the year).

If all that is too gloomy for you, energy consultant Michael Lynch maintains that there's no peak in sight for "the next 20 or 30 years." Peter Odell of Erasmus University in the Netherlands has tacked a full 30 years onto Deffeyes' grim prediction, setting a date of Thanksgiving 2035. And Uncle Sam has the cheeriest news of all: a peak year of 2037 forecast by the Department of Energy.

Targus intros Rolling Backpack

Clocky, Rolling Alarm Clock

Gizmodo being the family-oriented, award-winning weblog that it is, I'm disinclined to tell you what I first thought the Clocky looked like. On closer inspection, that's carpet, although Gauri Nanda might've done better with a more vibrant color. Regardless, Clocky rolls off your nightstand, bounces off your startled dog and finds a new place to hide once you press the snooze button. Maybe one day, we'll have an alarm clock that just crawls on your chest and wets itself. We can dream, can't we?

Clocky [MIT via WMMNA< /a>]

Oops—I almost forgot I wanted to do a mini Gizmodo Alarm Clock Roundup, so here ya go:
• Hanging Alarm Clock
• Jigsaw Puzzle Alarm Clock
• Timex Smell Alarm Clock
• Orientation-Sensitive Alarm Clock
• USB-Powered Alarm Clock

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Microsoft Rolling Out Windows Security
Fix

Microsoft's Windows fix rolling out in
stages

Apple Keeps Hits Rolling With iMix

Rolling Your Own Wireless Communications
System?

Bagle Infection Rate Rolling Down

Mampu: OSS Masterplan rolling out
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Harley Keeps on Rolling