A Carbon Counting Billboard and an Introduction to Physical Computing
WorldChanging Team, 22 Jun 10
Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging:
2009
Closing the Climate Change Accounting Loophole -- With a Billboard
Mindy S. Lubber at the Huffington Post reports on a 67-by-32 foot billboard "Carbon Counter" outside New York City's Penn Station that digitally shows the real-time, cumulative pollution - the tons added to the atmosphere every tenth of a second - we are emitting that is causing the planet to heat up...
2008
Nothing for today!
2005
InstantSOUP for the Fabricator's Soul
James Cascio looks at InstantSOUP -- Instant Satisfaction Potentially Useful Objects -- a hardware and software toolkit designed to introduce people to "physical computing"...
Other recent "look backs":
June 17
June 18
June 21
France captain Patrice Evra claims that coach Raymond Domenech dropped him from the squad for "no valid reason'' and denied him the chance to apologise to the French public by reading out the players' statement himself.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/story/_/id/800527/ce/uk/?cc=5739&ver=global
Posted by: wexySleme on 22 Jun 10
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