Happy Ramahanukwanzmas

Google Goes Green

Google environmental friendly

just an idea after my last post.

If we want to be friendly to earth and start measuring banners and their energy consumption. I was thinking: if Google would be ALL BLACK as opposed to all white, wouldn’t that save a lot of energy throughout the world?

Simple ideas sometimes are best. Who can do the math: what is the percentage of Google worldwide in visits? And what is the difference in energy consumption between an all white screen or an all black screen?

Maybe I can get the Nobel prize for this….

Snowwhite is not an environmentalist

Sleeping with several dwarfs saves heating cost

OMG I just read that Snowwhite and her fellow Disney figurines are polluting this world. Honestly, I always had difficulty believing that a mass producer of “fun” would be friendly to the world. Every time I visited Disneyland/world/planet/universe I went sick. It was so sweet and so full of nothing that it made me think the world was coming to an end.

The Dutch newspaper Volkskrant announced that a research was done after the eco friendliness of websites. And in particular banners.

Long story short, pop up banners cost 11 Watt, that is enough to burn a bulb. (light bulbs will be forbidden soon in the EU by the way).
So if your environmentalist you should install a pop-up-blocker and you save the world.

The extended research showed that especially disney.com and myspace.com were polluting as they suck 55.932 Watt each. It all has to do with the amount of flash and jumpy things on the site.

Hopefully the next princess of Disney will be Grassygreen and will save happily ever after.

blueshots.tv

surfing for elderly

Idlewild

When in the States I met so many nice people. One of the nicest and smartest had a dream. He was going to make a big switch in his lifepath. He would go from UN press officer to being a bookshop entrepreneur. It takes a lot of guts to do that. Most people are eventually more attracted to security than to adventure.

But he did it and now has the world bookstore Idlewild. If you ever go to New York (and why wouldn’t you?) should go to visit his store. Books ordered by country or city. Cool concept for people who love borders and know that that is what makes life more exciting.

http://www.idlewildbooks.com/index

Obama’s granny merry-go-round

This is one of our worst fears. The wrong ad in the wrong spot.

The day Obama’s grandmother dies, the newspapers report about it. Online you get the news including the necessary commercial banners. In case of this sad news, the banner is kind of inappropriate. “Let’s get it going with granny”  in Dutch “erop uit met Oma”. This is what you get when machines determine things based on mathematics and not on emotion.

Bad Ad

Respectance Telegraaf Digitaal

www.telegraaf.nl

Shock blog

In the sixties already magazines got censored by government. I honestly believe that these magazines or publications are the ones that matter most. They push us further and make us wonder. Harakiri was a French magazine, bad and evil they said themselves. All covers are collected at the Lifelounge site.

Electro Boy

Sign of the times.