Make has a neat video they’ve found about how traffic lights work. Mostly analog, but talking about the solid state version toward the end.
Make: Online : How (analog) traffic lights work
Turns out those cell phone calls of yours aren’t so private anymore. Honestly, I know that this is quite the technical feat, but I’m surprised that it’s taken this long. Just goes to show you the level of difficulty involved in dissecting this kind of information.
Secret code protecting cellphone calls set loose %u2022 [...]
Madame Curies lab notebooks are classified as intermediate nuclear waste.
Firefox declared as the leading and most prominent browser in the market. This is a major step for the open source browser and it’s never ending war with it’s closest competitor IE.
Firefox 3.5 passes IE7 as most popular web browser
Here are some images of various listening modification devices used during earlier wars. They were used to listen for incoming planes. Pretty ingenious.
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all… – but does it float
Wow! There seem to be a good number of these kinds of videos popping up lately. This one is a breathtaking view of the known universe to scale. It’s constructed by the Hayden Planetarium. Absolutely amazingly done.
The Known Universe
I’d love to see one of these with human understanding of the universe [...]
Here’s a great size comparison of different bodies in the universe. It’s a very well done animation and puts the enormity of these things into perspective.
YouTube – Star Size Comparison HD
This is amazing. I wouldn’t even think about this. I could imagine that I’d fall into both these situations. I can’t really say. Makes me think about how Magicians and maybe con artists probably use the same principles to their advantage.
Change blindness experiment Boing Boing
Some great images of both martian moons. These are the ESA Mars Express.
ESA – Mars Express – Pioneering images of both martian moons – images
Another Hexagon on Saturn. More information and speculation as to what might be causing it to happen.
The Mystery of Saturn’s Massive Hexagon Deepens (VIDEO)