Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Monday, February 02, 2009
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 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.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
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
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Friday, January 02, 2009
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Israel and Gaza
They will of course, only learn after one side has completely wiped the other out ... and right now, it's a race between the mighty and the many. The Israelis are better (United States) armed than the Palestinians, and, the Palestinians are producing more babies than the Israelis. There will be much more suffering before victory and peace.
Images sourced from the Boston Globe.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Underwater sculptures
Jason de Caires Taylor creates underwater sculptures -- located in water shallow enough for them to experienced via snorkeling or via glass bottom boat -- and designed to become a part of the environment they are installed in. The sculptures quickly enough attract corals and take on a life of their own. Totally cool!
Monday, December 29, 2008
Mobile home?
Here's a cool concept for a mobile home -- made and used, apparently, by a homeless guy. Check out more pics here.
Captured yesterday, after brunch ... and before a little shopping.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Canon's point, hack and shoot!
Hac-a-Day has a great post for those with point-and-click Canon cameras. Read it, do a little work, hack your camera, and turn it into a PRO machine! Totally cool hack, and you'll be able to take extremely long and short exposure shots, along with levergaing a host of new functionality. All of this comes courtesy of the hacking community.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Coronal Mass Ejection
NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a solar "hurricane", called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet on April 4, 2007. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet's plasma tail. Comets are icy leftovers from the solar system's formation billions of years ago. They usually hang out in the cold, distant regions of the solar system, but occasionally a gravitational tug from a planet, another comet, or even a nearby star sends them into the inner solar system. Once there, the sun's heat and radiation vaporizes gas and dust from the comet, forming its tail. Comets typically have two tails, one made of dust and a fainter one made of electrically conducting gas, called plasma.For more amazing images of our star, see the Boston Globe.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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