Tag: duncan geere
Zunes for Democrats and Republicans
Just to rub it in your face that you can’t get a Zune in the UK yet, and following the Joy Division Zune, the team at Microsoft behind the world’s third favourite MP3 player have launched some special-edition Zunes for “Green Delegates” at the USA’s Democratic national convention. These are delegations who “demonstrate the highest level of commitment to offsetting their carbon footprint from attending the convention”…
Akhter Computers launch PC which uses less energy than a lightbulb
The world of technology isn’t exactly known for environmental friendliness. Greenpeace regularly rate a bunch of tech companies on their website and no-one is currently scoring higher than 5.1/10. Some companies score extremely poorly. Nintendo score just 0.8/10.
I’m a big fan of green tech. I studied Meteorology at University, and that came with a bunch of climate change and renewable energy classes. Both taught me a lot about what we really should be doing with our planet. Unfortunately, I also really like having new shiny gadgets full of pollutants and toxic substances. That internal conflict makes me sad sometimes, but I brightened up considerably when I saw the LoCO2PC…
STREET VIEW SNAPS #4: Marriage Proposal
Aw, this is quite sweet – a lovely Googler called Michael Weiss-Malik has proposed to his wife-to-be through Google Street View. He doesn’t work for the street view team, but just works quite closely with them, and found out that they were doing a run alongside the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA…
OPINION: Exams haven't met the 21st Century yet
It’s easy to forget sometimes that the 21st century is now. Information is the currency that the world runs on, and is far more transferrable and globally relevant than actual cash. However, despite its focus on knowledge, the education system is hopelessly out of date. The traditional “exam” involves sitting down with a pen and some dead tree, and trying to remember when the battle of Sevastopol was. A school in Australia is trying to change that…
The world's lightest known solid – Aerogel
Ever wondered what would happen if you took glass and made it really really fluffy? No? Well I’m going to tell you anyway. Aerogel is the answer. It’s awesome – it holds 15 Guiness World Records, and is the lightest and lowest density substance known to man…
Ubiquity turns Firefox into DOS, and that's a good thing
Ubiquity is a new tool that’s just been launched by Firefox creators Mozilla, and I love it. It gives you a sort-of command line for your browser. As you might imagine, it’s not for your mum, or your grandma, but if you’re a “power user” – if you install extensions and like making the internet work for you – then I think you’ll love it too…
Survey reveals that you work way too hard
A survey by phone network 3 has revealed some nasty statistics about quite how much you lot work. Turns out that 31% of you feel you have to be contactable by work whenever and wherever you are, 23% of you have answered calls or sent emails whilst down the pub, 25% have worked on public transport and 13% of you have sent emails and made work calls from the doctor’s surgery (in the waiting room, I presume)…
YouTube Hits: Running through World of Warcraft on a treadmill
If you’re a World of Warcraft player, then you’ll know exactly how much running there is in the game. You almost spend more time running than you do anything else. Even when you get a horse for the first time, you still only go 60% faster than normal, so getting places does take a while, but that’s okay – it makes the world feel “bigger”…
Block noobs on YouTube with YouTube Comment Snob
It’s been scientifically proven that 96.3% of all YouTube comments are stupid, but there’s very little you can actually do about it, except for clicking that little thumbs down button. Until now…
Google Suggest finishes off your…
I don’t know if you’ve ever checked out Google Labs, but if you haven’t, then you should. It’s got all kinds of mad stuff in it, from Google Mars to Experimental Search….
