links for 2008-08-28

"The time for vagueness is now."

âÂÂWe still have a third-world grid,â Mr. Richardson said, repeating a comment he has made several times. âÂÂWith the federal government not investing, not setting good regulatory mechanisms, and basically taking a back seat on everything except drilling and fossil fuels, the grid has not been modernized, especially for wind energy.âÂÂ

Ad Week asks advertising professionals to design campaigns for Obama and McCain. Some of them are way too in-jokey, but it's interesting all the same.