What the heck? That’s right, gimme-five has a podcast.

I know what you’re thinking: don’t you need visitors to your website before you start a podcast? Ideally, yes, but keeping with gimme-five’s traditional status of “worst website of all time,” I’m going to go against the grain here. Since I am leaving to go to Nebraska with my beautiful girlfriend through this Sunday the 13th, I will be unable to write articles. But that doesn’t mean I won’t use my cell phone to spew worthless blabber on the internet! Prepare to listen to my boring voice rant about boring subjects that I would normally type about! Just check back on this page over the next couple days and hopefully I’ll call in. Woohoo!

• Japan Railway passengers to generate electricity at train stations
  Passengers are generating electricity by turning the turnstyles. Cool!
  (tags: energy environment innovative science green)
• GeoMAC Wildfire Support
  A real time map of wildfire information.
  (tags: environment)

• eNotes
  (tags: reference education study notes research)
• DealsPlus
  A great place to find deals on random products. Works like digg… users submit deals, votes are casted, the highest voted make it to the front page. I love it!
  (tags: shopping deals money digg)
• How Australia got hot for solar power
  A solar tower might be built in Australia… that could power an entire city. It’s 1,600 feet tall and sounds really awesome.
  (tags: alternative energy solar green)
• Video: Parody of Al Gore film tied to ExxonMobil lobbying firm
  Stories like these make me even more likely to believe in a gigantic oil conspiracy.
  (tags: environment oil politics gore inconvenient-truth)

Starting today, I have enabled my del.icio.us account to post links to gimme-five every day at noon. This means if I happen to stumble across any excellent websites on a given day (and I often do), I will post the links here at 3:30ish! Isn’t that incredible?

A new wiki entitled Wikicars has launched. It’s basically a gigantic user-editable encyclopedia focused on cars that you can view for free. It follows along the lines of Wikipedia, but it’s car-centric. Although Wikicars is fairly new, and lots of information still needs to be added, Wikicars definitely looks like it has some promise. Right now it appears it will include information on buying, selling, maintenance, and more.

The reason this is so great is because it can be edited by anyone. As we have seen with the success of Wikipedia, with a few exceptions, this means information is quickly and often accurately assembled. Of course, Wikicars shouldn’t be the only place you do car-related research, but it’s a great place to start.