Saturday, January 31, 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Inauguration Day From Space


As promised, here are stunningly clear satellite images of the tops of some two million heads during today’s inauguration. These images were snapped at 11:19am today by GeoEye-1, the most powerful commercial imaging satellite in the sky, from 423 miles above the trampled grass on the National Mall.


Source: Popular Science -- read more there.

Drivers wanted



How long did we think we could keep this up? Of course, once we start climbing out of the recession, this will all be forgotten and expectations will start inflating all over again. We really need to curb our consumption. [Source: the Guardian.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Hamas vs. Israel


... and the innocents all fall down.