If you live in St. Cloud, Minnesota, you can buy your gasoline at today’s prices and withdraw it tomorrow. Some customers are filling their cars on gasoline they bought for $0.99 a gallon.

If you’re short of transport solutions, why not get your new friends to drop things off for you if they’re going the right way? That was NASA’s thinking when they heard that the Indian space program was doing a moon launch, and had a bit of extra space for a few instruments from NASA’s inventory of goodies. This may well be the first of many such collaborative projects.

Space – you’re going to need teamwork up there, under some of the most dangerous circumstances humans have ever been exposed to. So best to train before you go and iron out the creases somewhere not quite so risky…like underwater. The NEEMO project is a NASA training program that puts potential astronauts under the ocean to practice a variety of tasks similar to those they would have to use on the moon, or another planet such as Mars.

If the Venezuelan opposition follows through on threats to boycott the upcoming elections, Hugo Chavez has suggested he’ll ask the people if they want him to remain in office until 2031. International observers believe Venezuelan elections are free and fair — so what if Chavez is elected for the next 25 years? Can you really call a society that locks in a leader for that long democratic?

Motorcycle riders, also known as “donor bikes” to certain medical professionals of my acquaintance, are at a severe disadvantage when it comes to high speed collisions: they’re not protected by a cage of metal like their SUV-driving brethren. Several companies are looking to right that injustice with jackets that inflate in an accident protecting the motorcyclist’s neck and spine.