The slender building would be energy self-sufficient as the turbines would produce enough electricity to power the entire building and even feed extra power back into the grid, said the Italian architect at the unveiling of the project in New York. (Via BBC News)The Huffington Post has a video and some more conceptual drawings, while the Wall Street Journal does its bit by covering the whole hard-on for skyscrapers Dubai seems to have these days.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
A cool new skyscraper in -- where else -- Dubai, will have 80 independent rotating floors. But check out this green hotness:
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Yet more reasons to hate Coke:
Dangerous levels of the known carcinogen cadmium have been found in the sludge produced from the plant in the southern state of Kerala.The BBC did their own analysis of the "fertilizer", and found out it was worthless.
The chemicals were traced in an investigation by BBC Radio 4's Face The Facts programme and prompted scientists to call for the practice to be halted immediately.
However, Vice-President of Coca-Cola in India, Sunil Gupta, denied the fertiliser posed any risk.
"We have scientific evidence to prove it is absolutely safe and we have never had any complaints," Mr Gupta said.
Monday, March 03, 2008
BBC News has a brief eulogy for Netscape Navigator. I started using Mosaic early in 1994, and migrated to Netscape almost as soon as it was released. Those were heady times, where platform choice was less about using an efficient tool and more about being on the side of everything good and wholesome. It was a sad day when the mighty Netscape, who once stood toe-to-toe with Microsoft, was sold to AOL. We should have known that the good guys only win in the movies.
There's more on Netscape at Wikipedia.
There's more on Netscape at Wikipedia.
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