"Looking at Goble's video and photos, I became, as an American, all choked up with gratitude at the fact that I do not live anywhere near the engineers' picnic site." - http://www.davebarry.com/misccol/charcoal.htm

Does my heart good to see there are still some hardcore tinkerers out there, though.

You will be happy to know that the site mentioned in the article is still available: http://web.archive.org/web/19961227054127/http://ghg.ecn.pur...

Is that the only reason you wouldn't use it? ;)