Google Black
[UPDATE: Dark Sky response to Chanda here.]
Hey Google? That Earth Hour shit?
Stick it where the sun don’t shine.
Samizdata shows us the earth lights:
I never get tired of looking at this photograph. It never fails to fill me with wonder and awe at the ingenuity of my species who, against all the odds, have carved these glorious man-made islands of light out of the primordial blackness.
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With each passing day I become more convinced that the ‘green’ movement is actually a millenarian psychosis; a mental and spiritual sickness borne, perhaps, from some degree of civilizational exhaustion. Not just a belief that the end of the world is nigh, but an active desire to bring it about. And soon. .
Grouchy Old Cripple Turns On His Lights.
Tags: Earth Hour, Environmental, Google Goes Dark, Political Correctness
March 31st, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Dude. What in the world could you POSSIBLY have against people turning off their unused lights? How in the world could that be a bad thing? Even if global warming ISNT real. I mean, my god(s), it’d be nice to see the freaking Milky Way again no? I think YOU have the psychosis. Said with love of course.
I hope you can perpetually afford to flush your income down the electrical lines. I’ll turn mine off—just in case. Maybe I’m not green (earthy) just green (greedy.)
April 1st, 2008 at 12:14 am
[...] Chanda (Hi Chanda!) rightfully upbraids me on a point that’s been nagging at me since the Google Black story: I mean, my god(s), it’d be nice to see the freaking Milky Way again [...]