bce

The Zhong Fa Electronics Market in Beijing looked like I imagined the DigiKey warehouse to: resistors stall, oscillators stall, FPGA stall, etc.

Photos (note: less crowded because I went on a Sunday morning):

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6vx0hWnq-f-V3Z5M0FR...

A similar project is being done by the Senseable Cities Lab at MIT:

Local Warming: http://senseable.mit.edu/local-warming/

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-6i6owLMQk

valid point, I should have said that I'd rather sell CPU cycles to some tech company than sell screen space to advertisers.

yep, I probably should have named it "less evil."