Month: December 2007
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Google goes solar funding $1 per watt solar panels
Googling Green Recently Google posted an article on there blog[1] about encouraging green energy. They also made it obvious that, as usual, they were ready to put their money where their mouth was. Where is Google’s mouth? Well, at moment Google’s billion dollar mouth is salivating all over a change-the-world sandwich. First bite: The way…
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Body Clock ‘Control Switch’ Found
Our DNA amazes me. It is a complete language describing how to build a human. Beautiful. The good ole BBC came out with this interesting story a day or two ago. “Researchers say they have identified the chemical switch that controls the genetic mechanism regulating our internal body clock.” Read on with the links below.…
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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2007: w00t
That’s right. Digital Culture has exploded in large part to the success of video games and the evolution of online gaming. According to Wired.com, “This year’s winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t (“leet,” or “elite”) speak—an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers…
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Light to Shrink Computer Clusters
IBM is looking to replace the well-known copper circuitry in computers with beams of light. What are the benefits of using light instead of clunky copper wiring in computers? Here are a few: 100 times faster more powerful much smaller produces less heat and uses less energy How? Well, since they replaced the copper wiring…