The Blues for LEDs

Corey Burger writes "Seems somebody rolled out of bed on the wrong side today. The Globe and Mail's Ian Johnson delivers up a rant about the ubiquity of the new blue LEDs."

Comments

Avoiding the Real Evil in the World

[Bob9113]

I think we all know what really motivated this editorial. It's so obvious as to be as blinding as the blue LEDs he pretends are so bad. He is clearly afraid of tackling the true evil in the world. I'm talking, of course, about the two truly evil consumer products. Products so vile and twisted that one barely should speak their name. I'm speaking, of course, of Saran Wrap and packing tape.

There. I've said it. We all know about it, but we all blithely wander through our days pretending these products weren't spawned from a twisted and sociopathic mind. Have you ever tried to use one of these products? The instant a section of either of these clear plastic "miracles of modern technology" comes away from it's little cardboard spool and tiny metal teeth (don't get me started on those sweater-eating life-ruiners), it becomes a slithering cellophane serpent, bent on destruction; maliciously bent on one brief instant of contact with itself. One tiny touch and it bonds to itself with a monomaniacal intensity rivalled only by Madonna's attempts to remain relevant to teenagers.

What a weight off my mind. I simply couldn't stand the way we all ignore this problem any longer. I've kept this bottled up inside me for so long, I had forgotten what it feels like to think about anything else. I feel... so... free! You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go to the supermarket, get the biggest bag of Kett'l Kook'd potato chips they have, and continue my hunt for the elusive potato chip that looks like Vincent Price.

One good thing about blue LEDs

[BitwizeGHC]

Giant LED-based video walls no longer look like plates of hurl. I remember seeing these things on television years ago and they all had this orangey tint because the entire blue end of the spectrum was essentially verboten. Nowadays we have vibrant full-color ads on our blimps and in our stadiums.

(Imagine UT2k4 on one of these! Driven by a Beowulf cluster of Power Mac G5s!)