GE: Home Appliance Energy Use

I find this little flash application in the General Electric of great use to all those who ever wondered how much each appliance used. Not only it tells you in watts the usage, but also it can show you in dollars and the equivalent in petrol, or how much does a kilowatt hour yield for each appliance, in addition to ranking them from the biggest users to the least..

Apparently electric furnaces use the most with a big-sounding 17,211 watts, while things like laptops barely use 30 (printers use around the same). However, I'm curious about how much things use when they are off but they remain plugged. Would it be relative to how much they use when in work?

Also, I see plenty of people who would be interested in seeing all this in the equivalent carbon footprint and all that stuff.

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Trance? Techno? House? Jungle? Hardcore? What's the difference between them anyway? They all sound like un-tss un-tss because all electronic dance music does so. I found this neat little (massive) guide to electronic music made by some mysterious person by the alias 'Ishkur'. Pretty cool, years are like the rings inside a tree trunk and different music styles that split and form nodes and crazy lumps and things and you can hear examples of each style of music and learn how sounds change through the ages and travel different cultures. Although in the last 10 years there has been an explosion of new styles of music (dubstep, reggaeton that has actually been around for a while, this new trancey DnB sound and a resurgence of electro), the guide still kicks ass an is not that out of date. How much work was put into it!

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/