The DoGooder plugin replaces generic ads on websites with “green” themed ads instead of those old generic ones. The main idea of this plugin is to promote green ideas and products via green ads while browsing the web, DoGood will donate the 50% of the revenue made from said ads to different charitable organizations around the world.

I wonder how pissed off the people whose ads are being replaced will be.

…as a driver of an older Prius, this is disturbing. If it does lead to health affects, I hope the treatment’s not going to exceed the amount of money I saved on gas by driving a Prius in the first place.

Genius! I know a city that desperately needs this.

Interesting. Apparently, this system’s been in effect in Los Angeles since 2005.

Downloading.

This is genius. Max Klein:

How did I reduce my cost from $9000 to $46? No, I didn’t do it by brainstorming or by being clever – but by a chance discovery as I was reading the BBC news website: I found an article about the second life economy.

Second life is filled with people who want Linden Dollars. They come from all over the world, and for them it’s just a game. They will willingly spend 30 minutes to translate the article for you for 20cents, which is 50 Linden $. For that, they can get accessories, funiture, clothes etc. within the game.

Via Wikipedia:

Kim Ung-Yong (born March 8, 1962) is a Korean child prodigy. Kim was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Highest IQ”; the book estimated the boy’s score at about 210.

Shortly after birth, Kim began to display extraordinary intellectual ability. He began speaking at 6 months, could converse fluently by age 1, and was able to read Japanese, Korean, German, and English by his third birthday. On November 2, 1967, at age 4, he solved an advanced stochastic differential equation. Later, on Japanese television, he demonstrated his proficiency in Chinese, Spanish,[citation needed] Vietnamese, German, English, Japanese, and Korean. Even in early childhood, he began to write poetry and was an exceptional painter.
Kim was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University from the age of 3 until he was 6. At the age of 7 he was invited to America by NASA.[1] He finished his university studies, eventually getting a Ph.D. in physics at Colorado State University[1] before he was 16. In 1974, during his university studies, he began his research work at NASA and continued this work until his return to Korea in 1978.

When he returned to Korea, he wished to remove himself from the public eye. Thus he decided to go to a mediocre local university and switched majors from physics to civil engineering. Some media pejoratively reported that he was a “loser”, pointing out that he lived like an ordinary student. But he did not protest, not wanting to become a story in the public eye. Eventually he received his doctorate in civil engineering. He went on to become a prominent scholar in that field and has published at least 90 papers.

As of 2007 he also serves as adjunct faculty at Chungbuk National University.

In an interview with the press, he said “I was not a loser, but I just wanted to live ordinarily”.

Business Insider:

Freescale Semiconductor tells Bloomberg that it’s developed new chips which will drive the price of e-readers below $150 before the end of the year.

Larry Downes:

Internet pundits are right to be outraged and disturbed by the audacious behavior of the government. But they should be more concerned about what this case says about freedom of the press in Italy and less what it says about the future of liability for content hosts.

And what it says about the Internet as a powerful, emerging form of communication that can’t easily be intimidated.

Chris Dixon:

California should be NYC’s role model and ally. The enemy should be people and institutions who make money but don’t actually create anything useful. In NYC, this mostly means Wall Street, along with the Wall Street mindset that sometimes infects East Coast VC’s (emphasis on financial engineering, needing to see metrics & “traction” vs betting on people and ideas, etc).

Traction & Metrics < Betting on an idea that might change the world.