More fascinating than 'w00t' getting Miriam Webster's blessing (surely a sign of the end times), today's green links:

Before we get to our latest batch of links, allow me to discuss a couple of things.

First, the folks over at The Green Grid shot me an email announcing that the group is hosting its first ever Annual Green Grid General Members' Meeting and Technical Forum in San Francisco on February 5-6.

A get-together is always fun (open bar?), but more exciting to me is that they also announced getting the results back from their first Plugfest in November. During the event, hardware vendors got to test their gear to see how it performed under PCI Express Active State Power Management tests. They haven't made me privy to the results, but they proudly say that it now provides for those vendors a "framework for these components to become more energy efficient moving forward."

Let's hope so!

And now, Dvorak. I think he enjoys pushing people's buttons and watching the pageviews pile up. And honestly, I sometimes find it amusing to see just how much nerd rage he can bring to a boil.

But not this time.

I could go on for a few hundred words about his OLPC rant, but the BBC and Brian Proffitt at the Linux Today Blog did an outstanding job already.

I found Dvorak's opinion -- which he's entitled to, yay free speech -- deeply cynical and dismissive. Sure, the "cute" little green machine may crash and burn in the developing world. Still, my hope is that once the first few OLPCs become a "delivery mechanism" for online content from those communities, they'll become less easy to ignore.

And I find that a cause worth supporting, even if ad-pushing Google foots part of the bill.

Well, look at that. My rant went on far too long. Links ahoy!

Dvorak's Logic Continues to Amaze - Linux Today Blog

Give me rice, but give me a laptop too - BBC News

[New York] City's Taxi Fleet Will Turn Hybrid - Gothamist

Getting Up Close and Personal With Future Green Car Tech - Wired

Finding the Financing for Your Green Building Project - GreenBiz

The Biggest Economic Opportunity of This Century - The Motley Fool