Real big on quarks

It's official: century gothic is the "greenest" font, using 30% less ink than Arial, and even more economical than some eco-fonts.

It's so green that the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay changed their default email font to century gothic to save the ink, the environment, and most importantly, money: 30% greater text-for-ink efficiency is a lot, since printer ink costs about $10000 a gallon.

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I've also heard, but found conflicting arguments, that dark coloured webpages save energy. Whether they do or not, mine's dark because I find gentle lights and dark backgrounds easier on the eyes.

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Finally,

This is super awesome: Loband is something like a browser-in-a-browser (perhaps not an accurate description) written by a bunch of really smart guys one of whom I saw speak at this class (which is really awesome and welcoming to audit-ers and not-MIT / not-students). It's neat because it allows an internet user to load all of the content of a webpage text-first, and then waits for instructions to load pictures, sounds and flash...

Okay, I figured it out. It's a service that's run on a high-bandwidth server, to be accessed by users in low-bandwidth areas. It filters websites requested through the service down to their core content at the server before sending it to the user, reducing the amount of information that needs to be transmitted. As the name suggests, this allows for efficient and judicious use of bandwidth in situations where connection speeds are low.

The original business idea was for a whole bunch of high speed servers running loband in Europe-near-Africa and Asia-with-internet-near-Asia-without, allowing users in these countries better access to the internet, and easing congestion in those networks. I can't remember who was supposed to pay for it-- perhaps internet providers in those countries, who benefit from less traffic? I don't recall, but I do remember it made a lot of sense when I heard it.

I don't know how that worked out. In any case, Loband is a useful card to have up your sleeve.