Google has covered all the buildings on it’s campus in solar modules. 9,212 of them to be exact.

• It’s easy being green: Google goes solar

My favorite part about this is that they didn’t just stop at doing the rooftops, they also covered the parking lots:

To gain even more solar surface area, Google installed solar panels as “shades” over several of its parking lots, keeping cars cool and generating power at the same time.

Everybody loves Helvetica. There’s even a movie out with its name. Some designers have expressed their unabashed love for it. Arial is just a sad knock off of it.

But can you tell the difference from the two?

• Arial or Helvetica Quiz

I got 8/10. Not too bad, although Judatha might have something to say about that. After taking the quiz, check out this linked article.

• How to Spot Arial

If you’re into type, and you didn’t get a perfect score, you’ll be shaking your head at how obvious it is after reading the article.

Via Vitamin.

This has got to be one of the best pranks I’ve seen in awhile. In short, John McCain’s MySpace page was using a template from Mike Davidson’s. That’s fine, except that McCain’s page was pulling images directly from Davidson’s server, using up Davidson’s bandwidth in the process.

If you’re unfamiliar with the process, let’s just say that it’s a big no-no to use someone else’s image on your site by linking to the image on their site. It means that each time your page is loaded, the image has to get downloaded from their site. If you going to steal someone’s image, at least have the courtesy to upload it to your server first.

Davidson decided to do a little swicheroo with McCain’s MySpace images:

Get the full story at Newsvine.com.

• Hacking John McCain

Via Daring Fireball.

All of these different versions of the Abode Suite are making me want to pull my hair out. I can’t wait to try and figure this one out for our computer labs the next time we do upgrades.

Get the breakdown here:

• CS3 ‘biggest release in Adobe’s history’

Also, get it from the horse’s mouth:

• Creative Suite 3 Overview

Check out this video where David Bradley describes how he invented the CTRL-ALT-DELETE key combination. It was apparently just originally a development tool. In this video he jokes about how he invented it, but it was really Microsoft that made it famous. Bill Gates is on set as well, and his reaction is absolutely priceless.

• Origin of CTRL-ALT-DELETE

Via O’Reily MacDevCenter.com.