Google Earth and other technologies are expanding our boundaries of the world and allowing us to be more aware of how small our planet is. As he says “and with knowledge comes responsibility and also the ability to do things and to take decisions and to be aware of what is happening”. Powerful stuff.
Archive for the ‘cool’ Category
Having a music-listening-day in work today, drowning out all the background noise. Going to add my list of good songs of the day. REM – At My Most Beautiful Arcade Fire – Born on a Train Michelle Branch – Goodbye to You Ingrid Michaelson – Keep Breathing Vega4 – Life is Beautiful Snow Patrol – [ Read More ]
This is brilliant. Salvador Dali appeared on the old “What’s My Line?” TV show, where the guests are blindfolded and ask yes or no questions in order to identify the person on stage. The quote I like best is “So this man can do anything, except sport?!“ Also, I didn’t realise he was such a [ Read More ]
At this bizarre Russian site, you can find example of what to do when you have too much cable, and time, on your hands. Can’t make head or tails of the site — but it looks pretty cool.
In my job I’m constantly talking about ‘big’ numbers… and sometimes you can lose your sense of perspective. Here’s a quick reminder of what exactly those numbers mean: This is $1 million in pennies (100,016,640 pennies!) Value: $1,000,166.40 Width: 12 feet (7 feet) Height: 12 feet (7 feet) Thickness: 12 feet (7 feet) Total weight: [ Read More ]
Well it made me smile: At least they know their audience… their website is best viewed in Firefox. Nice. (and they have Podcasts….)
YouTube is a good place sometimes, a terrible place other times, but sometimes you come across absolute gems like the following: “Code Monkey” (acted out) – song by Jonathan Coulton.
Beauty that is out of this world. Check out NASA’s Gateway to Photographs of the Earth.
Over at Dark Roasted Blend they’ve some great images that go up all the time — the one that caught my eye was this article on robot pictures. <girlie>Look-at-the-little-bitty-robot-in-the-other-robots-hand</girlie> <girlie>and-the-little-bitty-dog</girlie> There’s more! Go, read, explore!
