September 12th, 2007
- The Pacific Rim Nations, including the United States and China, agree that we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions! HOORAY!!! But they didn’t set any targets! BOOOOO!!!
- There’s a call out for Google Earthers to study satellite photos to Help Find Steve Fosset, the adventurer who’s plane went down while scoping out places to go adventuring. To quote Buck Murdock from Airplane II, “Sometimes irony can be so… ironic.”
- A cool artwork concept is Comparitive Morphologies of computers, peripherals, and wires, in the tradition of stunning Ehrenberg Plates.
- Found this one on a few feeds, but the BBC has cute diagrams of the discovery that Our Eyes Focus On Different Letters While Reading, each eye on a different letter about two letters apart, sometimes cross-eyed even, and our brain puts it together into a coherent image.
- The researchers say this isn’t evidence that we are better than conservatives cognitively, but Liberals have twice as much activity in the brain’s deep region, which helps recognize situations where we must refrain from action, such as… gee… I dunno. Iraq?
- Heavy, but enlightening, reading warning: the Internet as the Library of Babel
- File this one in the “No #&$%ing Way!” folder: Is Randall Munroe, author of the brilliant xkcd comic really a former NASA Roboticist? I thought he was like a high school prodigy or something.
- Ohhhh… Ahhhh… Check out the Watercube, National Swimming Center for the 2008 Olympics. Construction began this week.
- Also in the eye-candy department, check out a video of Time-Lapse North American Flight Patterns.
- Pink and White Katydids were found in Osaka. Surely these are the end times.
- Not to be a future Internet sensation, but I thoroughly enjoyed Geeks in Love
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those flight patterns were neat! My office-mate is from South Dakota, so I had to point out the “area of blackness” where he lived, hehehehe.
I just realized if we look carefully, we can see the timezones roll across the country in a flurry of activity.