Looking for my Thanksgiving Post? I myself am already thinking Christmas – and we have most of our shopping done *before* the stores opened today!
* LA Times says “Livestock are a leading source of greenhouse gases” and that a great way to help the environment is to eat less meat [via No Impact Man] or you can check out these tips for How to Have a Green Christmas.
* “Metro Transit is introducing 17 new hybrid buses – along with 150 more to follow over the next five years – to its fleet. The new buses, the cornerstone of the agency’s Go Greener initiative, deliver 22 percent better fuel mileage and produce 90 percent fewer emissions than the buses they replace, and they’re exceptionally quiet.”
* A blender that works only when you growl at it. MIT at their best – there is even a video.
* Game: Classic Invaders (warning: this may be blocked by your corporate firewall)
* “In this interview, Michael Nygard explains that just one hour of downtime on a Fortune 500 website can cost $300,000 or more. Mike explains how to use stability and capacity design patterns to avoid expensive, public disasters.” [via /\ndy]
* Over 2 billion photos have been uploaded to Flickr. Here’s the pict that put them over the mark. And here’s the architecture that lets them do it. In short: A collection of open-source tools serve 4 billion queries a day.
* Quote: “In terms of how we evaluate schooling, everything is about working by yourself. If you work with someone else, it’s called cheating. Once you get out in the real world, everything you do involves working with other people.” Richard Wagner, a psychologist at Florida State University
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