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What you see above is the Earth Hour style of Bing…which is today’s pictures only with lights off. Quoting ourselves from two posts ago, “it’s nice that Microsoft wants to spread the cause of saving the environment, but for those who did their research will know that it will use more energy to show black on flat panel screen that it does for other colors.”

Click the jump to see how it looked like a few hours ago (or simply scroll down). Read the rest of this entry →

Just a quick reminder, we’ll have our first downtime  for celebration of Earth Day 2010. Any visitor coming to the site will be told that it’s down for Earth Hour and it’ll be back in a hour. We made fun of Bing’s plan to make their website darker several minutes ago – but we overlooked one thing: our down page had a black background…

Hopefully it’ll only be a few moments that you’ll be on the page, if any, on Earth Hour. Our server will still be humming along smoothly, being shared with 146 other great sites*. Additonally, keep in mind that we will blogging right up onto Earth Hour.

The plugin that allows us to do this is BraveNewCode’s Earth Hour plugin.

*We don’t know if any of those 146 sites are any good, or even malicious. We just said great because they share a server with us – that’s all.

Bing has announced yesterday that it will turn off the lights on their search site by making it darker, similar to what Google did 2008. It’s nice that Microsoft wants to spread the cause of saving the environment, but for those who did their research will know that it will use more energy to show black on flat panel screen that it does for other colors. Microsoft does note this by saying that “While a darker version of our page doesn’t save any energy over the regular version, we wanted to do our part to help spread the word“, but they add insult to injury by not removing the black until 9:30am Pacific tomorrow. This goes great for their company image, but why do the opposite of what you actually want represent?

The image above is Bing’s image for the day, but not what they will use for Earth Hour. The Earth Hour site will be shown at 8:30pm Eastern time.