Download today's edition of QuickTake Northwest (mp3 about 10 mins).

Featured music for today
Track: Your Place
Artist: Zero 7
CD: The Garden
Label: Atlantic
You can see Zero 7 at the Wonder Ballroom in September.

Today's links!
PGE customers set energy consumption record (This article was part of yesterday's daily Mop Up, a compilation of some of the day's big print stories. You should check that out, if it's not already part of your daily routine.)
Click here for Ley Garnett's feature on the first meeting of the Governor's climate change advisory board.

On the calendar, Davy Rothbart, creator of Found Magazine is in Oregon! Find him at Powell's tonight.

And finally, here's the link to my interview with Fred Hitz, a former Inspector General at the CIA, whose long career spanned much of the late years of the Cold War. Fascinating guy. He recently wrote a thoughtful book comparing spy fact with spy fiction.