Progress!!!

Pour yourself a drink because today NGF members really have something to celebrate!!

For the first time since we began working towards the new global future, we have successfully warmed the earth enough to free the northwest passage of ice.

(read article here)

But don't stop now, there is plenty of work to be done, there is a lot of oil up there that needs to be rescued and burned.. and probably some seals that need clubbing.

Keep at it.. the future is near!!!

Yet another enemy. LocalCooling.com

Some idiot decided to make a desktop application called local cooling for your home computer that manages your power usage so that you use less energy and then it calculates how many trees, gallons of oil, and kilowatt hours you have saved.

Well we can fight back! After you visit their website and send a nasty email explaining what a disservice they are doing to the planet, use the following tips to increase the amount of power your computer uses.

- Run a few distributed computing projects such as SETI@Home
- If you have a dual core processor, make sure that you have enough applications running to make use of BOTH cores.
- Make full use of your GPU by keeping a 3d intensive program or game such as World of Warcraft running at all times.
- Buy more computers! even if you don't have much money to spend, you can find very cheap and even free old computers or extra monitors on craigslist.
- And of course, never turn off your computer!