I love this video - it’s so “casual” how it mixes reality with fantasy …

Remember: You don’t your mail on GMail - you are only allowed to access it for free when Google wants you to.

So always keep local copies of your email (by using Outlook or any other normal eMail program to access your Gmail account) - AND get an additional eMail account somewhere else as a backup too.

Never trust just ONE provider.

All our computers waste huge amounts of energy by waiting for us humans to do something. Most so called CPU cycles are wasted for waiting for you to press a mouse button or open a new webpage.

LocalCooling is a gadget for WindowsXP users to reduce their energy usage - or at least configure their computers to shut down unused parts or completely. Hey, you can even calculate how many trees you have saved - and there is even a top ten list for your and your buddies to participate in a global energy saving contest.

Let’s all say it: awesome!

Or is it? Overall there is nothing new in here: all energy settings can be found in the aptly named Energy control panel. So it’s only a good remix of already existing.

So if you really want to save some energy, than open your Energy control panel and tell your machine to shutdown the monitor and hard drive after a few minutes idle time … and don’t download that LocalCooling application and don’t waste any more energy thinking about it.

What we REALLY need are computer components that act more energy conscious and use a lot less electricity. Intels newest mobile Core2 processors only know two speed settings: half and full speed. There should be more settings.

And another one of my Heroes dies.

Joseph Weizenbaum was a computer god and culture critic. I read many of his ideas - and his critical think really inspired me. His work on artificial intelligence and natural language processing were important as well. I think we all encountered a version of ELIZA on the web? If not - talk with “her” here …

*Thanks Thomas for sending me this sad news*

Thinkgeek.com is my favorite Nerd Shop on da intranets. They always have the coolest and weirdest gadgets. So these rubber weapons really made my day. Just make sure to watch the painful nerd fight video on the product page.

Don’t forget to buy also a proper Chainmail shirt while you at it.