Google Goes Black, we assume it’ll go back

Google goes Black to make us save energy for Earth Hour. Although to be honest, the Black consumes more energy than the white, but it does raise the point.

RandomlyAccessed v2.0 – UPDATED

 

We are only a matter of days away from the official launch of the new RandomlyAccessed. The hosting’s sorted, the domain is propogating, the design is all but finalised, and the last remaining bits of code are waiting to be implemented, meaning that we’re on the home stretch to reach our new home…at last!

 It is RA’s birthday next week, so it will be fitting to launch version 2.0 around the site’s 2nd anniversary, which to be fair, was my personal deadline anyway.

It’s looking sweet, different, and very very cool at present, so get ready to add a new bookmark and change those RSS feeds over to the new ones when they become available soon!

See ya on the other side!

 -Steve (Editor)

UPDATE

Well, we’ve been working our socks off, and it’s getting there, just it’s taking a little longer than anticipated due to some glitches with the code. Do not worry though, we are very nearly there with it, and are in the process of transferring content over to the new system. We’re using the news script we used to use on RA as our main content machine on v2.0, so it’s beginning to get familiar again, and the new design feels like it’s been a part of RA for an age (well, it has been honed over the past 3 months to make it like it is).

Hopefully you will all agree that the blog was the sensible thing to do in RA’s downtime, and I hope you all come to see us when we start pushing our news/reviews on you from it’s newly rebuilt home. We’ll post the RSS feed link here so you can update your aggregators etc. because it seems many people have signed up for them.

So, give us a little bit more time, and we’ll be back, biggerer and betterer than before-er.

ECO bedding made from old drinks bottles

 

It’s nowhere near as uncomfortable as it sounds, as the polyester fibres that are in your drinks bottles can be recycled and turned into more environmentally friendly soft-fibres for things like pillows and duvets; and that’s exactly what we have for you today, the ECO bedding range.

With a quarter of the British population being actively worried about climate change, it seems as though anything and everything we have in our lives can be made ‘green’ somehow, and these look like very good products to do our little bit.

The pillow’s a bit steep at £22, but the quilt and mattress cover come in at a more reasonable £31 and £25 respectively.

To find out where to get them from, goto: www.ecobedding.co.uk

Razer Salmosa

 

Well, I have to agree with you I am pretty overwhelmed with the announcement of the Razer Salmosa Mouse;

Razer Salmosa – US: $39.99; Europe: €39.99

• 1800dpi Razer Precision™ 3G infrared sensor
• 1000Hz Ultrapolling™ / 1ms response time
• Mechanical dpi/polling rate switches
• On-The-Fly Sensitivity™ adjustment
• Always-On™ mode
• Ultra-large non-slip buttons
• 16-bit ultra-wide data path
• 60-120 inches per second
• Three independently programmable Hyperesponse™ buttons
• Ambidextrous design
• Scroll wheel with 24 individual click positions
• Zero-acoustic Ultraslick™ Teflon feet
• Seven-foot, lightweight, non-tangle cord
• Approximate size:          115mm (length) x 63mm (width) x 37mm (height)

 Update: Just changed a few things, sitting on an embargo when drunk isn’t fun!

More on the  $49 mouse after the hop;