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Green Tea Cleans Hard Drive Heads

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the heloise's-pc-found-to-be-spotless dept.

mprindle writes "Wired.com has an article announcing that a 'study of the use of green tea extracts for polishing the magnetic heads in hard-disk drives has yielded a compound that works three to four times faster than conventional compounds. If the findings can be reproduced in an industrial setting, the compound could reduce the cost and environmental impact of hard-drive manufacturing.' And you just thought that green tea was good to drink."

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  1. Green Tea by Jane_Dozey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always knew green tea was meant for something other than drinking.
    It's nasty stuff.

    --
    Silly rabbit
    1. Re:Green Tea by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Funny
      Go to China, sit in a cafe in a bamboo forest next to a stream and have a glass of green tea. The tranquility of that is something I'm sure I'll remember for some time :-)
      And then have the party ruined by the communist party goons who raid the joint because someone logged-on Slashdot...
  2. Sssssshhhh! by TiMac · · Score: 5, Funny
    Don't let this get too publicized or all those office morons (the ones of tech support legend: CD Tray==Cupholder, etc) might start pouring their morning tea on the computer after a crash.

    This could only prompt me to ask them: One Lump or Two? [WHACK WHACK]

    --

    1. Re:Sssssshhhh! by mst76 · · Score: 4, Funny

      > This could only prompt me to ask them: One Lump or Two?

      Side note: Chinese and Japanese don't drink tea with sugar.

    2. Re:Sssssshhhh! by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      You have it backwards. Publicize the shit out of this, so people start pouring their morning tea in their computer - and thus my job security is guaranteed.

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  3. Not in my opinion. by Slayk · · Score: 5, Funny

    And you just thought that green tea was good to drink.

    No, not really.

  4. Green Tea Cleaner... by zaba · · Score: 5, Funny

    And here I thought green tea was only to clean your...uh... "internal soft drives"...

    1. Re:Green Tea Cleaner... by DrLZRDMN · · Score: 5, Funny

      off topic but A friend of mine claims that xbox is a computer and gamecube isn't. He mentioned the hard drive so I told him that a hard drive is not nessecary for somehting to be considered a computer so he says "A computer must have a hard drive and a soft drive" I spat green tea all over laughing.

  5. green tea? by gusmao · · Score: 5, Funny

    If green tea is all that good, just imagine when they try beer!

  6. So? by Limecron · · Score: 5, Funny

    What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?!

    Oh... umm... Nevermind.

  7. Re:Wikipedia on green tea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wikipedia on karma whoring

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_whoring

  8. They should try hemp by lildogie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, hemp, it's good for "heads."

  9. Imagine what it does to your insides! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    mouth-clean
    throat- clean
    digestive tract - clean
    nasal cavity - clean if not swallowed properly.
    teeth - green.