Does "Blackle" save energy?
In the "old" days when I worked at Digital, we used to use VT100 character cell terminals. I always chose white text on a black background (this was a setting) because I knew that the black parts of the screen meant that the electron gun of the CRT display was turned off, and as a result the only current expended was being used on the white characters. This was partly environmental but mostly because I wanted to avoid seeing the 60 Hz refresh of a totally white background. I'm very sensitive to screen flicker and would set the refresh rate at the highest setting possible. Perhaps this is a symptom of my Asperger's syndrome but that is a topic for another post. My sister informed me of an alternative site to Google that had a black background. The name of the site is Blackle , and if you use a CRT there is a certain amount of truth to the premise that a black background will save energy. Of course most clever people have already embraced the more energy efficient LCD...
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Speaker Bill O’Brien and the Tea Party legislature’s sneak attack on New Hampshire women must be stopped.
If you haven’t seen the news over the last few days, the legislature is attempting to repeal a long-standing and bipartisan law that guaranteed women would have access to contraception and basic health care in their personal insurance plans. And I need to emphasize that this law does not require any religious organization to pay for contraception.
The Concord Monitor reported that Speaker O’Brien quietly “attached this amendment to an unrelated bill that eliminates ‘obsolete or outdated’ provisions from various state laws.”