How do you feel about cell phone ads? Nintendo's Wii will go on sale on Nov 19th. The US urges other countries to back off Apple. Microsoft's Eurpoean release of Vista is on track. Well this is a step in the right direction. Honda has co-developed the world's first practical process for producing ethanol from waste plant material.

Honda and partner Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, or RITE, a nonprofit entity set up by the Japanese government and private enterprises, said the new method allows large volumes of ethanol to be produced from widely available waste wood, leaves and other so-called soft biomass.