My own campus offers a free bicycle sharing program. Any bike with the Bike Sharing sticker attached is free to use any time and anywhere on campus. There are only a few rules, they can’t be taken off campus, you can’t lock it (if you park it and someone else takes it, too bad, find another), and don’t abuse it.

I am not sure how many bikes are available, but the highest number I have seen written on one is 51. Also, with thousands of students, the bikes do start wearing out. The two most common problems I see are loose handlebars and loose seats.

A bike is also a great source of excercise, obviously. I have actually seen a growth in the tibialis anterior muscle (I had to look up the name of that one), after two days of riding around campus.

To be fair though, I did a lot of riding around. My Thursdays only have one class at 8:00 A.M., and I kept riding the bike around until about 3:00 P.M. with stops for food and wandering around the buildings.

My Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays have four classes however, but I still have time to ride around between my last three classes (all about an hour apart).

Their thinking is that since black is the absence of light, screens simply turn off the pixels that display black.

That is not the case, the only screen that i know of that does do that are the new OLED screens from sony.

In all other screens, black actually uses more power.

In non-OLED screens, the pixels displaying black actually turn on brighter, then put a physical, dimming cover over them.

You can see this for yourself, make a simple image, the top half white, and the bottom half black. leave the screen on for a few minutes and feel the difference between the white and black halves. the black should be warmer.

Sites such as:

blackle.com

ninja.com

greenergle.com

greygle.com

earthle.com

don’t work as they promise.

i have known about air powered Concept cars for a while, but now they’re in production.

since i started writing this, i tried to find the article so i could give an exact link. i ended up finding another (what i consider better) version of the one in Europe. it was released in India and can go 68MPH with a 125 mile range. It’s called the City Cat.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/indian-air-powered-city-cat-car-prepares-for-production-run/

the original air powered car i found on the site is here:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/mdis-airpod-runs-on-compressed-air-challenges-segway-for-dorky/

The indian car has a back seat, the european car has maybe one, or maybe it’s just a trunk from what i can see.

i personally would love to ship one over to america for me to get to school and back. Donations welcome

maybe it’s getting ready for California’s zero-emission law in 2010?

hopefully it’s better than what smart was supposed to release a while ago…

smart was supposed to unveil an 80mpg Diesel car in the last year

I’m glad popular science hasn’t removed it from their archives with their new site.

popular science reported a fuel cell motorcycle to be sold in 200.

The motorcyle is powered by a brick-like fuel cell that is easily changeable.

they say that it can power a small boat, or even a small house.

here’s the full article, tell me if it’s a broken link:

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-11/intelligent-energy

however, if you are somebody who did not ask any questions, heard a rumor and are now funding “sabotage escapades” and attempting to “expose” and bring down all of the countries sponsoring the CERN project, then you’re a crazy.

Go ahead, be the Devil’s advocate, i, from what i know can and will argue both ways, given a reason.

CERN is conducting these experiments in a vacuum! a couple of particles in an empty “tube”

But black holes exist in the vacuum of space!!! some may say, even friends of mine (not crazies though, just playing “Devil’s Advocate”).

Well, about that, black holes start with a lot of mass, an entire star’s worth, possibly with a system orbiting around it. the relative size of the black hole to the system gives it fuel. the system is pulled in, and the black hole lives on.

there are vacuums everywhere, if you were to enlarge an atom to the size of a football stadium, the nucleus would be the size of a pin, placed in the center of the field.

you have to think of it relatively, the size of the vacuum in CERN to the few particles inside doesn’t come close to the one’s observed in space, so the black hole will peter-out.

I personally don’t think this is going to end the world, and i can safely call all of the people who do CRAZIES, and be safe in two ways.

first, if we survive… HA!

if we don’t, then this post, me and everyone of the no-longer crazies will be gone and no-one will know from that point on, a clean slate for a non-existent person.

of course… if the black hole is large enough, it will pull us in, WITHOUT damaging us! the crazies will be a little less crazy,(having been partially right) and we will all have survived and have been moved to a new part of the universe.(hopefully by a star or in some kind of orbit around one to sustain us.

The CERN particle accelerator was started up last night, while everyone in America was sleeping.

Apparently the particle accelerator is successful in one direction and they are going to test the other direction later on, it should be running normally in two weeks… We have two weeks before the world ends, time to accomplish all life’s goals and spend your life-savings before we find out that it doesn’t kill us all.

then we have until 2012 to live