Change Google's Background Color To Save Energy?

i_like_spam writes "Recent commentary at Nature Climate Change describes an on-going debate about the energy savings associated with the background colors used by high-traffic websites such as Google and the NYTimes. A back of the envelope calculation has suggested energy savings of 750 Megawatt hours per year if Google switched their background from white to black. In response, a new version of Google called Blackle was created. However, other calculations by the Wall Street Journal suggest minimal energy savings."

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Re:double entendre

[Corporate Troll]

Euh, there are Asians with quite some boobies. Other than that, yes, okay, you busted me on inconsistency... So sue me... Some asians are hot without big boobies, but the whities and blackies can't go without though.

Re:Oh, the irony....

[compro01]

in firefox you can change the default colour of visited and unvisited links in the content tab, then in colors.

IE has the same option in the general tab under the colour button, at least in IE6. dunno if it is in that place in IE7.