Archive for November, 2007
Posted: Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 @ 7:32 pm in Environment, Movies, Web | No Comments »
An interesting talk highlighting an idea of geoengineering to induce Global Cooling. He also talks about Paul Crutzen suggesting this idea, and I even heard Paul Crutzen in our seminar talk about this.
Yes, we have done zip and will not do enough, but I personally find the very idea that we could do something that […]
Posted: Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 @ 12:11 pm in General | No Comments »
What is happening? I’m over 7000 spam comments now, thanks to old faithful Akismet you can’t see them, but I’m again awestruck by the amount of spam a blog that noone ever reads gets. What do popular blogs get, 1000000 spam comments a day or is it not linearily connected to popularity?
Posted: Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 @ 8:08 pm in Environment, Science | No Comments »
TreeHugger discusses an important topic. Carbon dioxide certainly is the most important contributor to the artifical greenhouse effect leading to global warming, especially since the amount of carbon dioxide dramatically increases (compared e.g. to methane). But it is irresponsible to reduce global warming merely to carbon dioxide.
So-called “black carbone”, that is carbon particles from soot […]
Posted: Monday, November 5th, 2007 @ 11:22 pm in Movies, Music, World | No Comments »
Woo, is it Guy Fawkes Day already? Time for some Overture 1812 (final)!
Posted: Monday, November 5th, 2007 @ 9:03 pm in General | No Comments »
I have updated my Greasemonkey script that cleans YouTube to show nothing but the video itself.
You can now change the settings by editing the source and setting the flags in the code header.
By default, the option for the small “embed” box under the video is deactivated, as I think that is nice to have and […]