Wot with josh taking borrowed cars to scotland some one better post on here....

Interesting quote from here

"In terms of performance-per-watt, nothing can touch the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor. It represents a potential annual savings of $50,000 for a datacenter with 500 two-way systems."

I assume thats just in the electric bill. Or $100 per year per computer. Based on a very quick calulation my CPU, at 72 watts, is using 613KWh per year, or $105(nz). Now can I convince myself to upgrade all my computers to Pentium Ms just on the baisis of the power I'll save.

Shockingly the Pentuim M 1.6 has Thermal Guideline 21.0W which would cost $31(nz) per year to run. Or a saving of $74 per year. Incredible.

Unfortunately it costs $335 to buy (Plus a motherboard and ram). The Mobile Celeron Ms at 1.4 chug out the same 21.0W and only cost $145 giving a realistic 2 year payback time. Now to magic the motherboard and ram out of thin air....

here's some cute robots.

i don't know why, but i really like dusty / dirty computers (just so long as they're not my main computer(s)). i want to get a computer and leave it on 24/7 in a super dusty environment and see what it's like in 2 years... anyway here's a clever idea that lets you use your computer in bed (followed by pictures of dirty / lazy computers, ooh and here's some more, dusty, broken stuff)

Paul Gilbert (was in Mr. Big, and 'Top 10 Shredders' etc) has some cool photoshopped images of himself on his website. (plus he did some stuff with steve hackett and his website's VERY funny so you should check out the rest of it).

The Bible in 100 minutes.

I don't know how, why, or where I found this site, but I REALLY like it, it's got lush photos in abundance, and posts on lots of really cool new stuff. check it out: CoolHunting.

Green Street Film Review. here (not by me) Interesting as it portrays thugs as normal people who have hidden thug tendancies that they play out outside of their respectable 9-5 jobs, as though it's normal. It also sounds like it glorifies being a thug...

BBC News - "Advert shows Jesus as Che Guevara"

firefighters save trapped boy.

boy trapped in toilet is rescued. hurrah.

crash

"The car ended up on its roof in the garden of David Harries, 58, who said he had only just finished compiling a petition about speeding on the road."
this article is about a straight piece of road that has recently had a car crash. The cause of the crash isn't obvious, but the crash is getting plenty of press attention.

Will a new road sign make a difference?

BBC News have written an article on "How the UK would deal with a disaster like Hurricane Katrina", which is very similar to my question posted the other day asking how we would cope with major tsunami type flooding.

French Rocky. Video (in a webpage)

Link.

Kinetic backpack for powering iPod.

Weatherman claims Japanese Mafia are behind hurricane Katrina

link

Illegal to refill your Lexmark Cartridges: Full details. (there's a Ink Refill shop near us, so I wonder whether they'll only do lexmark refills down a dark back alley?)

"The new film, directed by Joe Wright, is the 11th screen version inspired by Austen's novel." Stop making Pride and Prejudice already!!!!! (link)

Has anybody thought about: How the UK would cope if a Tsunami were to hit it? The UK is an island surrounded by water, so surely it's possible that one day there may be a serious water related natural disaster? A friend I know is researching the disaster situation of major flooding in the UK (it's already been seen in the North East (Carlisle (pics)), and 5 million people live in Flood risk areas etc Flood action plan / advise here.)

Gaming Console History: SNES, best ever.

World's Smallest Mac Laptop: "The Toshiba Libertto can now boast the distinction of being one of the world's smallest, if not the smallest, Macintosh! Here's an example of the Libretto 110CT running Mac OS 8.0 on the Basilisk II open source Macintosh emulator. Happily, you can multi-task and run the emulator in a window instead of full-screen if you so desire. Basilisk easily installs in moments and accepts installs of the OS from CD-ROM, floppy and downloaded image files." further details here.

CDs (MP3s) / TV (Films/Videos/Downloads): What are your views on all this? Whilst lending a DVD/CD of a film or music is completely legal (law-wise), where do you stand on copying CDs / MP3s / downloading TV off the internet / borrowing a dodgy copy of a film for one time watching etc? And what about allofmp3.com - currently (russian/international) law seems to say it's legal...?

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