Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
But you knew that already didn’t you? Yup, it’s bad. Bad when you’re putting your posts up, like I’m doing, and bad when you’re reading stuff — like you’re doing. Right. Now.
Twenty milligrams; that’s the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article.
How green is your website? Calculating all the factors involved in a website can be tricky.How green is your website? Calculating all the factors involved in a website can be tricky.
Now, depending on how quickly you read, around 80, perhaps even 100 milligrams of C02 have been released. And in the several minutes it will take you to get to the end of this story, the number of milligrams of greenhouse gas emitted could be several thousand, if not more.
This may not seem like a lot: “But in aggregate, if you consider all the people visiting a web site and then all the seconds that each of them spends on it, it turns out to be a large number,” says Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross, an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University who studies the environmental impact of computing.
Wissner-Gross estimates every second someone spends browsing a simple web site generates roughly 20 milligrams of C02. Whether downloading a song, sending an email or streaming a video, almost every single activity that takes place in the virtual environment has an impact on the real one.
I’d suggest you go write a pleading apology for the damage you’ve caused, seal it up in a time capsule and bury it someplace where your own great-grandchildren will find it…but, of course, that would emit so-many-milligrams of you-know-what.
“Environmental fellow”? WTF?
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My web host claims to be “carbon-neutral,” for what it’s worth.
- CGHill | 07/13/2009 @ 14:12Hell, just hold your breath for 10 seconds a day! 😉
Now let’s just think about this…. what would our progressive friends like us to do? Get out and get some exercise to contribute to a leaner America? But wouldn’t we be exhaling more CO2? What’s the carbon footprint of excercising?
What’s the carbon footprint Al Gore failed to reduce during Earth Hour this year?
@*&! them. Each and every one of them. With a broken comact flourescent. Mercury and all.
Rhetorically speaking, of course.
- philmon | 07/13/2009 @ 14:16er… compact. Qurap. Webmaster! Fixie! 😉
- philmon | 07/13/2009 @ 14:17