Month: January 2007

Weighing the Web

Quick! You need a factoid fast! Here’s one, what does the Internet weigh?

A statistically rough ( one sigma) estimate might be 75-100 million servers @ ~350-550 watts each.. Call it Forty Billion Watts or ~ 40 GW. Since silicon logic runs at three volts or so, and an Ampere is some ten to the eighteenth electrons a second, if the average chip runs at a Gigaherz , straightforward calculation reveals that some 50 grams of electrons in motion make up the Internet.

Thats the mass of a medium sized chicken egg.

[via eyebeam and collision detection]

Weighing the Web

Lego Magnets

LEGO and magnets… Perfect!!!

"…gave us a set of Magz for Christmas and i noticed that the small magnets in the bar component of the toy looked like the right size to fit in the cylinder in the bottom of Lego bricks. I have scads of Lego but was lucky enough to get a bit of new Lego as a gift also. Tonight i put the two together."

[via MAKE]

Lego magnets on Zieak’s Blog

Monsterpod – Shapeable Camera Tripod

Whee! I’ll be an unwitting shill for a viral marketing campagne but only because it looks neat. If the Monsterpod does half of what it says it can do then I might buy one. The Monsterpd is like a beanbag tripod without the beans. Actually, it’s a plastic base that has a mold-able ‘viscoelastic morphing polymer’ (read: some sort of shape holding gel foam stuff), and a neoprene outer covering. All in a 6oz package. As long as your camera is under 300 gm (10 oz) it will hold whatever in place for a minute to an hour before oozing and letting go. This should give anyone enough time to set the self timer and get in the shot. If I were to guess how it works and I might as well do that, I’d say that you push it onto whatever you want and it fills in the nooks and crannies with bits of itself until it hold fast. Like the way a vine will crawl up a wall. I’m paranoid so I’d use a safety line on the camera if I were to plant it on a  tree or sideways to a pole. But that’s just me.
The website says it will be shipping in a few weeks so look for it soon.

MONSTERPOD

Moving up!

Over the next few days TeamDroid will be migrating to a larger server so things might not work or get updated for a few days. Everything will be back up and running once the DNS caches get refreshed. Until then, be seeing you.

‘Are you from the past?’ IT Crowd Fan Shirts

As anyone in IT knows, helpdesk is like being in hell but with ‘special’ people asking you questions all the time. If you don’t know what that’s like then you need to see a British comedy called ‘The IT Crowd‘ (if you looked you could find it online but I don’t know anything about that).

Roy: Yeah, you do know how a button works, don’t you? No, not on clothes. No, there you go, I just heard it come on. No, that’s the music you hear when it comes on. No, that’s the music you hear when… I’m sorry, are you from the past?

Express your inner nerd  with one of these the next time you have a casual Friday and the office.

[via Boing Boing]

IT Crowd ‘Are you from the past?’ t-shirts from K-Design