Archive for February, 2008

And where is my flying car.

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Next big future has an entry titled Rewritable holograms will revolutionize medicine and advertising, it’s about a group at University of Arizona who created a rewritable 3d hologram. It’s apparently pretty fast and they’re working on a full color version. They talk about advertisements and TV, but I wonder about it’s impact on […]

Spy satellite

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

A great article from the New York Times about hobbyist tracking of government spy satellites. It turns out there is a group dedicating to predicting orbits and guessing at function of these top secret satellites.

Fourth cable cut

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Fourth undersea cable cut near UAE, suspicions rise Engadget covers the fourth cable cut in the middle east. More and more are growing suspicious. One wonders though, what benefit could one get from cutting these cables. Perhaps making more money routing traffic through your cables.

Crazy man

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Crazy man

Sanitation at its best.

The aftermath

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

The aftermath

Paper snow.

Giants parade

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Giants parade

Insanity so far

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Insanity so far

Lots of paper

Politimetrics

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Politimetrics is a project to use statistical analysis to predict the winner of the 2008 election. As fanciful as that sounds it’s actually quite interesting.

C is for Cookie and that’s alright with Mercury.

Friday, February 1st, 2008

In the vein of bigfoot on mars Bad Astronomy Blog has a post titled Bad Astronomy Blog » Let’s pass over Mercury, and it’s another odd feature this time on Mercury. Once again science comes up short as to the creation of planets. Clearly the cookie monster has created this planet. This […]

Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere is a standing art piece where hundreds of people flashmob grand central station and suddenly freeze for five minutes. The video is wild. I would have loved to see this, simply incredible. Thousands if not millions travel through grandcentral daily and to see hundreds of people […]

Everyone has an inner n-rd.