Breakfast Links: Speed Racer, Algae & iPhone
Having just found out about Speed Racer a couple days ago, I’ve already stumbled into this video of an interview with the actors involved in the movie (not the Wachowski’s, though). There’s not really much to the interview and honestly all of them both look and sound bored - none of them genuinely seem psyched about the movie, except maybe Emile who shows at least some sign of life. I don’t think that bodes well for the flick. But that Mach 5 looks sweet, somehow even in the video it looks fake - which I think is cool!
Then I was reading about an attempt to cash in on the whole carbon trading thing. Basically startups are going to start growing gigantic algae farms on the ocean - this algae sucks up carbon dioxide and when it dies it sinks into the ocean taking the carbon with it. Now I don’t know if carbon trading is going to work or not, but I wonder about this particular plan. Isn’t algae in huge quantities bad? Red tide and all? Won’t adding vast swathes of algae all over the place (remember carbon trading is biiiig business, hundreds of millions of tons of carbon a year need to be handled) be bad for the oceans and the denizens of said oceans? It generally seems to me that any time we muck around with an ecosystem we pretty much screw the whole thing up for everyone.
A couple iPhone bits this morning (both via df). First there’s a new ad up that shows you safari and a good look at how surfing the web will be on the phone (short answer? pretty cool). Although, with the new phones coming out with 720 pixel wide screens, I wonder if all this panning and zooming is going to be old news soon. The other interesting thing noted was that this ad doesn’t have the 2 year plan with AT&T required fine print and the previous three, which did, had that fine print removed. Huh! Gruber also notes that the iPhone’s may use cell towers for general positioning for it’s mapping tool to show you what stuff is near you. I love this idea and I think it’lll work great in cities where gps can get a little flaky. Good joss!
