del.icio.us links for September 11, 2007

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. Please Don’t Marry Our Daughters – New York Times – Bits.Blogs.NYTimes.Com

   The site is a prank. But not everyone is in on the joke. The site has gotten 20 million page views in the last two weeks. The site’s “publicity director” has also appeared on at least half a dozen talk radio shows around the country

2. Mobile industry holds its breath – News.BBC.Co.UK

   The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHR) has received £8.8m in funding from the government and communications industry. There are now 70 million mobile phone handsets in the UK, and around 50 thousand masts.

3. Eating dark chocolate can prevent heart disease – DailyMail.Co.UK

   Good news for all us Chocolate lovers – “Dark chocolate may also stave off age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in the elderly, and dementia.”

4. Camera-toting partygoers leave paparazzi in the dark – theGlobeandMail.Com

   The new wave of citizen paparazzi who make it past the velvet ropes are causing concern to those running the events and the pros who earn their living shooting them. “It’s frustrating.” said Toronto freelance photographer

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1. Breastfed babies ‘are just as likely to have allergies’ – DailyMail.Co.UK

   Latest figures from the UK show 76 per cent of women start out breastfeeding – up seven per cent from 2000. But most babies are drinking formula milk within weeks and fewer than half of mothers are breastfeeding by the time their baby is six weeks old.

2. Solar plane takes flight – theGlobeandMail.Com

   Built from carbon fibers, the aircraft is 59 feet long and weighs about 66 pounds. It uses paper-thin silicon panels to draw on the sun’s power and stores the surplus in lithium-sulphur batteries, which power it through the night.

3. Scrap tax on bras with medical purpose – TheStar.Com

   So given that buying a well-fitted and supportive bra can alleviate backaches as well as give other health benefits to a large-breasted woman, not taxing bras in the bigger sizes would be a cheaper and non-invasive solution for what is really a medical pr

4. AMD launches new generation chip to compete with Intel – theGlobeandMail.Com

   Intel’s four-core chips are actually a package of two chips with two cores each. In AMD’s four-core chips, all the cores are placed on a single piece of silicon. Industry observers have debated whether either strategy matters in terms of performance.

5. Arcapita to sell British wind farm portfolio for 145 million pounds – EarthTimes.Org

   During that time, Zephyr has grown to become a portfolio of 17 wind farms in Britain with a combined capacity of 391 megawatts, representing approximately 20 per cent of the installed wind power capacity in Britain.

6. Gaddafi’s son comes off as a Libyan Al Gore – EarthTimes.Org

   The development project for the Green Mountain region in the north-east of Libya covers a land area of 5,000 square kilometres.The project includes eco-hotels, organic farms and jobs for some 70,000 young Libyans.

7. How Much Electricity Do You Use? – GreenOptions.Com

   The Efergy smart meter tracks energy use every five seconds and converts it into cost and carbon figures, to give you a sense of what your usage is doing to your pocketbook and to the climate. Efergy is manufactured and sold in the UK.

8. Shaming Building Owners into Using Less Energy – JetsonGreen.Com

   A quick, but interesting, little tidbit of information … in Haringey, a city in the UK, the city council hired a company to use a military-style plane outfitted with a thermal imaging to take pictures of every structure in the area.

9. Apple Eyes the Wireless Auction – BusinessWeek.Com

   At this point, Apple is leaning against participating in the auction. With nearly $14 billion in cash, the company can clearly afford the $4.6 billion minimum bid required by the government, and could probably come up with the $9 billion that’s expected t

10. Survey claims 46% back nuclear power – Environment – Guardian.Co.UK

    However, the dangers of nuclear power still appear to be at the forefront of public concern, with 89% of people worried about safety and 92% alarmed at the prospect of creating more nuclear waste.

11. The EU code of conduct for datacentres – TechWorld.Com

    The MTP’s Robin Murray gave estimates of UK datacentre server electricity consumption: 15,437 GWh in 2006; and 30,961 GWh in 2020. But, and it is a significant ‘but’, storage and networking kit electricity use is not included in these figures.