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...
Phil tracked down something truly alarming. Two Google searches produce the same quantity of that awful, horrible, toxic poison carbon as what you spew into our lovely atmosphere boiling a kettle of water for tea.
How’d you get here?
Making two internet searches through Google produces about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle, it has been estimated.
A typical search through the online giant’s website is thought to generate about 7g of carbon dioxide. Boiling a kettle produces about 15g.
The emissions are caused both by the electricity required to power a user’s computer and send their request to servers around the world.
The discovery comes amid increasing warnings about the little-known environmental impact of computer and internet use.
According to Gartner, an American research firm, IT now causes about two per cent of global CO2 emissions and its carbon footprint exceeded that of the world’s aviation industry for the first time in 2007.
Dr Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist from Harvard University who is leading research into the subject, has estimated that browsing a basic website generates about 0.02g of CO2 for every second it is viewed.
The trend continues: Whatever large numbers of people go off and do, is bad for the environment — except for things that somehow make a gesture, however meaningless it may be, toward the environment. Exactly like a deity. Have a conference on what to do about global warming, and you can send just as many 747s to that central spot, with five to ten passenger-butts per fuselage, or fewer, as you care to send. Having a rock concert as a benefit for Mother Earth? Even better.
Run a Google search to find out where the conference is, or where the rock concert is? Shame on you.
What if we get rid of Google? I guess, then, people will play video games like kids. And then that will be bad for the enviro. So then we’ll all just sit around on our asses in bistros, sipping espresso, chatting about whatever — and then that will be found to be toxic too. The movement is not about science, it’s about guilt; whatever large numbers of people are doing, that doesn’t provide the proper obeisance to Gaea, take it to the bank it’ll be found to be “bad for the environment.”
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