Wired Magazine has done some excellent reporting on Destructing Disposable DVDs. See
Hurry Up and Watch: DVDs Time Out
Disposable DVDs Go to the Dumps
Wired also links to a site where you can mail in your disks.
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Friday, January 7th, 2005Our first class
Thursday, January 6th, 2005I’m blogging in the middle of our first class. For many of the class, this is their first experience with blogging. Right now we’re discussing the mechanics of data entry. For example, if you want to add a URL (a link to a webpage) then you need to tag the text. To create, click here to read an interesting article from slashdot on Outsource: Competing in the Global Productivity Race, I typed in <a href=http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/12/27/1937247.shtml?tid=187> then I type the text “Outsource: Competing in the Global Productivity Race” then I finished with </a>. What you now have is a beginning and an ending tag. I copied and pasted the URL from the top of my browser window.
The whole thing is: <a href=http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/12/27/1937247.shtml?tid=187>Outsource: Competing in the Global Productivity Race</a>
Welcome message
Thursday, December 30th, 2004Hello and welcome to ENVR 480 of the McGill University School of Environment.
Course Introduction
Innovations in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have fundamentally transformed the scope and characteristics of environmental problems. Adoption of ICT contributes to significant changes in social interactions, business practices and economic growth, all shifts that affect the environment. ICT also impacts the methods used to analyse environmental processes and problems. Whether the overall effects are positive or negative (or both), they are not well understood. Understanding the relationship among ICT and the environment will become key to moving towards a sustainable society.
Prof. Sieber