the dirty, dirty internet

[t byfield]

_forbes_ has an interestingish article on power consumption 
vis-a-vis computers and networks:

     Southern California Edison meets Amazon.com. Somewhere

     in America, a lump of coal is burned every times a book

     is ordered on-line.

     <http://www.forbes.com/forbes/99/0531/6311070a.htm>

(recently, bruce sterling has been on a jag about banners on
web pages denoting how dirty--or, better, clean--the site in
question is; and it strikes me as a simple, excellent idea.)

cheers,
t