I wonder if using it makes my email greener.

I'm also a bit underwhelmed by all the hype cycles right now. We all know Detroit could have gone electric in the 80s if they had been sufficiently motivated.

The internal combustion engine is the punch-card reader of technology. Seriously, car engines haven't even jumped to the mainframe era yet. Why? No motivation to advance.

I'm not sure about the tag cloud. Because they aggregate all posts, time isn't a dimension. I've not seen a tag cloud applied to time. If you have an example, let me know, and I'll take a look.

This morning I'm listening to the radio, and the dj is going on about the governator getting out of a new Dodge Challenger with the big Hemi and being hypocritical… (google if you haven't heard, yes, I'm envious).

I can't help thinking of what will happen with all these hi-tech car batteries when they get old, or are defective – you thought exploding laptops were bad… not to mention all the extra energy used shipping them all around…

And those effing flourescents… they're hazardous waste!

But what really cheeses me off is the corporate hype. I won't even depress everyone with that rant. When it comes down to it, sustainability is what is important, and our basic economy is not built to support that, either locally or globally. Scarcity is the root of all economics, and now people are going, duh, we're going to run out of gallium…

Hey, remember the paperless office?

Speaking of colors, those tag clouds, could they imply a dimension of how recent the postings, with color of the tag indicating the date ordering? Red, someone's posted recently, blue old, etc.

The whole separator page thing is funny b/c I recall a few years ago when I was in an office, they went through a whole “duplex, it saves trees” thing, which was great. I always wondered why we couldn't also save trees by dumping the separator page.