Open desktop mechaniccat /dev/random | strings | grep "For being ignorant to whom it goes I writ at random, very doubtfully"Big Green, ecology isn't just hippies living in methane powered VWs anymore- October 5, 2007 Great photo by kesselring It looks like Big Blue (IBM) stepped aboard the green bandwagon, welcome Big Green! It still amazes me that arguments against ecology in the U.S. (particularly by certain A.M. talk radio hosts) quickly drift into disparaging sensible environmentalism by using the "environmental wacko" meme. If environmentalism is wacky, then I guess we're in good company with other wackos such as IBM and General Electric. When did environmentalism become so boring I sure hope I...http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/big_green_ecology_isn_t The Hunt for Cool October- October 3, 2007 I'm not entirely sure what magnetically activated microbladder pumps have to do with magnetohydrodynamics except that both use magnets and both can be efficient, quiet and cool. It's an interesting technology for Sun to hold a patent on and probably far more efficient at moving heat from the chip than Peltier devices which only move heat out of your device with 5-6% efficiency and turn the other 94-95% of the energy into more waste heat! If they weren't so god-awful noisy, we'd probably be...http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/the_hunt_for_cool_october |