links for 2007-02-20

• The Real News about Global Warming
  Bill McKibben tells the history of global warming as a science (it first emerged in 1988), and of the parallel political incapacity to take it seriously. A must-read piece that puts all new findings in context. (From TomDispatch/NY Review of Books)
  (tags: globalwarming climate climatechange mustread)
• Master Plan - The power of Google
  A 4-minutes video (or rather a political manifesto) produced by two German students - Ozan Halici e Jürgen Mayer - about the reach of Google and the risks involved.
  (tags: Google Privacy masterplan future politics)
• NY Times publisher: maybe in five years NYT won't be printing anymore
  NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger in an interview: "I really don't know whether we'll be printing the New York Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either". What matters, he says, is the Internet. (From Haaretz)
  (tags: nytimes newyork journalism publishing media provocative)
• Data center energy consumption has doubled since 2000
  The energy consumed by data center servers and related infrastructure equipment in the US and worldwide doubled between 2000 and 2005, says a study by a Stanford professor (From InformationWeek - hat tip to Michele for the link).
  (tags: datacenters energy servers)
• Energy film festival in Lausanne
  A tiny film festival about a global issue: the 11th Energy Film Festival will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, 28-30 March 2007. Part conference (about energy and climate), part film competition (with shorts, documentaries, and commercials).
  (tags: energy filmfestival climate Lausanne)

Comments

[John Staehli]

The Master plan link reminded me of a great animation about evilness made by "knife party" some time ago.

I don't know if you've seen it already, I believe it's an amazing graphical work.

http://www.knife-party.net/what_barry_says.html