Hot off the Press: Dining out edition

Wind now accounts for 20 percent of energy in Iowa: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100303/BUSINESS/100303013/Study-Wind-now-accounts-for-20-of-Iowa-s-power. Good news. Keep it up.

A number of SoCal beer enthusiasts are storing beer in the cool crawl spaces under their houses (nobody has basements in California): http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-beercellar-20100304,0,3357285.story.

The massive earthquake in Chile shifted the Earth's mass just slightly closer to the rotational axis, shortening the length of a day by 1.26 millionth of a second: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lost-time4-2010mar04,0,6102901.story.

China's military budget next year will grow at its lowest rate since before 1989, possibly because the government's economic stimulus programs have eaten up so many funds: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/world/asia/05china.html?hp.