Here are some of the pictures from our one year anniversary party last week! Check em OUT!!!   
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Day: 8 September 2006
Spare a few computing cycles?
ThingsAreGood is proud to announce a new team on the World Community Grid!
The world community grid helps you make use of your computer’s unused processing time. Let your computer crunch numbers for social good when you’re not surfing the web, playing games, or hard at work.
From the www.worldcommunitygrid.com website:
World Community Grid’s mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals – like you – collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.
To join the ThingsAreGood team, simply create an account at www.worldcommunitygrid.com.
Paper from Poo and Xerox
People tend to use a lot of paper, we can do a lot by lessening how much paper we use. Currently we can buy 100% post-consumer paper and print double-sided. But what if we can go one step further?
Recycled paper mixed with a slurry of sheep poo can make more paper! The amount of jokes that can be made here are endless, but see how it’s made.
Xerox has created a kind of paper that will erase itself. Not only can reduce the amount of paper we use, we can reuse it as well!
“This offers the prospect of reusable paper in the sense that the content is automatically erased after a period of time, ready for fresh printing. Inspired by the fact that many print outs have a life-span of a few hours (think of the emails you may print out just to read, or the content you proof read on the train journey back home), the specially prepared paper will preserve its content for up to 16 hours.”