Monthly Archives: April 2010

Hotmail Gets Pushy

By C.G. | Published: April 30, 2010

Microsoft is adding enabling push notifications to Hotmail through its Excahnge ActiveSync features. Yahoo has had push email for the longest time and Google recently enabled it some months ago. They’re also adding some social networking features, too. Its nice to see Microsoft, um, innovating again. Coming soon to Hotmail, push email for mobile phones [...]

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Crude

By C.G. | Published: April 29, 2010

This just makes me sick to my stomach. Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin sends word that the Chevron is demanding the raw footage used in making the documentary, Crude: The Real Price of Oil. Just looking at the trailer, below, makes me want to puke. Seriously. The rampant destruction and total disregard for human health, safety, [...]

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Fuel Consumption Per Capita

By C.G. | Published: April 29, 2010

I thought this was interesting. Consumerist points us to a visualization from The Infrastructurist. The picture below shows how much each gas each state consumes and compares it to its population. New York, while a large state that would require more consumption to move around in, gets a green color, in part, because so many [...]

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The Internet Is Faster – Just Not In The US

By C.G. | Published: April 18, 2010

Living in New York City, I am fortunate to have fairly fast internet; I think my officially marketed speed is 30mpbs down with real world speeds near 22mbps+. But the rest of the nation isn’t so lucky. Broadband penetration is weak in many areas of the country and, let’s face it, is laughably described as [...]

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More Volcanos Please

By C.G. | Published: April 16, 2010

Information is Beautiful provides today’s visualization where it shows the net CO2 “savings” from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull’s eruption and the disruption of air traffic in Europe. As you can see from the image, over 206k tons of CO2 won’t be released into the air because of canceled flights. Even though its causing health concerns with ash [...]

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