You may have noticed we’ve been beefing up the TPM Livewire with a lot more iterative minute-to-minute coverage of late. We’ve got some exciting plans for it that we’ll share with you in the near future, so stay tuned.

But in the meantime, we’ll be covering all the Hurricane Irene news there throughout the weekend. So check it out.

Also, we welcome your reports, video, and photos from wherever you are within the cone of uncertainty. Just be safe.

I’d urge you to read our piece on the protests over a U.S. pipeline to transport the product of Canada oil sands to the Gulf coast in conjunction with Kevin Drum’s piece on our oil-constrained future.

Kevin’s piece is on the economic effects of maxing out worldwide oil production. Our piece is implicitly about the environmental effects. As demand for oil exceeds supply, the quest for more sources of oil becomes more expensive and more environmentally damaging. It’s all related.

Chuck Norris, action hero and international arms treaty expert. OK, not so much on that second one.

Pandora in the second quarter streamed 1.8 million hours of music and had revenue of $67 million but still hasn’t turned a profit.

Take away the far-right Republican field he’s most often compared to and Jon Huntsman hardly looks like a moderate.