#efficiency (7 links)
- This column will change your life: the truth about inefficiency theguardian.com
Inefficiency is subjective: what's experienced as inefficiency by me or you is perfectly efficient, actually, just so long as you're a phone company and your goal is making money. Voicemail thus has much in common with "dark patterns", a term coined by the tech consultant Harry Brignull, to refer to the sneaky ways in which websites "trick users into doing things they might not otherwise do, [such as] signing up for recurring bills". As with voicemail, these often look like incompetent design, but they're not. [...] What feels like tiresome inefficiency, born of sloppiness, really arises because it serves someone's interests.
- Highly Maintainable, Efficient, and Optimized CSS slideshare.net
Nothing particularly surprising, a few contentious parts: pretty decent round-up of ideas that are in reasonably common usage.
Via daneastwell.
Radiohead's LED lighting. "Our road to what became, we believe, the first exclusively LED tour lighting system started with a conversation about generators at festivals and green field sites."
sust-it has a simple objective: to make us all more energy efficient by providing consumer information on the most energy efficient products in the marketplace.
- Build a Green PC extremetech.com
Building a green PC means you can be part of the solution by using all lead-free parts that are also more energy-efficient.