More bad Tom Brady news

posted Sep 11 2008

from the onion:

FOXBOROUGH, MA—More than 90 percent of female football fans were lost for the season on Sunday when New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady suffered a left knee injury that will require extensive treatment. The Patriots announced Monday that Brady, the 2007 NFL Most Valuable Player and arguably the NFL’s most handsome man, will be placed on injured reserve, where despite being no less attractive than before his injury, he will only be partially visible for the rest of the 2008-2009 season.

Global warming, now with more Google!

posted Sep 8 2008

Just saw the recent news of Google’s plans for floating data centers and found it amusing:

Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water.

Google could power these data center pontoons with wind potentially and cool them with water. You could argue that these ocean data centers could be self sustaining.

Harness the wind or waves to generate power, and use the seawater to cool them. Smart idea; Knocks out two of the biggest costs with current data centers.

Except how would these things not eventually raise the temperature of the water they’re floating in?

And isn’t that essentially what Global Warming is supposed to be doing?