AFSCME Union Video

Check out AFSCME's new promotional video!

New Yorkers help man find girl of his dreams via personal website.

Patrick Moberg spotted the love of his life on a subway in NY earlier this week only to lose her in a crowd of commuters. So he went home and designed a website (NYgirlofmydreams.com) providing his personal information and hand drawn picture of the girl and himself. In a week the website drew so much attention that he's already found her. Click here to read more!

Try saving some energy: set your homepage to Blackle.com

"Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy."

Looking for a mash up?

Check out discobelle.net. This swedish website mixes it up. Courtesy of Grundlecrank's majesticon, James McPeak III.

Radiohead figures out how to make a dime in a world of internet piracy

Not a bad scheme: cut out your record label, ask people to pay as little as they want for your album, and distribute it to everyone yourself.

Download Radiohead's new album In Rainbow for whatever you feel you should pay for it on their website Radiohead.com. If you just can't live without a hard copy, order that too for nothing but the price of shipping.

They'll probably make more money than if they tried selling it in stores.

Tapscott and Williams' International Bestseller is actually worthwhile.

When it comes to books the team here at Grundlecrank is rather picayune. Commitment to art or literature is worn like a thin veil-- more for feminine mystique than a pursuit to some higher form of being. We rarely come across a book that interests us. When we do we're never hesitant to put it down when it bores us in the third chapter. However, Grundlecrank believes Tapscott and Williams' Wikinomics is a rarity worth reading.

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind: Canadian's advance intrastellar toilet technology

Ever wonder how astronauts hit the head in zero gravity? Ever wonder where all those shooting stars come from? Click to hear some of the Canadian's latest innovations in space travel...