Red Shift

So as you approach the speed of light, the things you're approaching begin to take on a bluer cast. Things growing more distant from you begin to look more red. This latter is known as the red shift, and it is used to measure our distance from far-off cosmic entities. This is pretty heady science stuff — and was intuited by artists decades before it was known to science.

So as we approach the speed of light, we also approach the optimization of energy use. To celebrate, I've changed the background of this template to a minimal, primarily black style ... for black, you see, uses no energy on a computer screen, and thus optimizes energy use.

I was clued into this concept through Blackle, a Google search engine with an entirely black interface. It doesn't have a Google Image search or any of the other bells and whistles of the standard Google site, but for your standard web search, it functions as a Google search. There's even a Firefox Searchbar Add-On for it, so you can restack your search engines within the bar to have it at the top.

Plus, being confronted by a large swath of black every once in a while can only be both good for the eyes and for the mind, right?