Archive for May, 2007
Click anywhere on a street in a major US city, and a photograph pops up of a view from the middle of the road where you clicked. You can click and drag the photo to look around 360 degrees. Unbelievable.
Here’s St Mark’s Place in Brooklyn: Link.
The New York Times has a story about a wonderful exhibition of inventions for the third-world. The products are so simple and so useful; it’s really inspiring.
Link to story, video.
I’ll be back to regular updates soon. The current Harpers has an article by Garrett Keizer about global warming which has all the rhetorical power and humour of a George Bernard Shaw essay – and with the same kind of likeable naivety. Excerpt:
It is not enough to acknowledge that global warming exists; we [...]
Click anywhere on a street in a major US city, and a photograph pops up of a view from the middle of the road where you clicked. You can click and drag the photo to look around 360 degrees. Unbelievable.
Here’s St Mark’s Place in Brooklyn: Link.
The New York Times has a story about a wonderful exhibition of inventions for the third-world. The products are so simple and so useful; it’s really inspiring.
Link to story, video.
I’ll be back to regular updates soon. The current Harpers has an article by Garrett Keizer about global warming which has all the rhetorical power and humour of a George Bernard Shaw essay – and with the same kind of likeable naivety. Excerpt:
It is not enough to acknowledge that global warming exists; we [...]
I’ve been enjoying the amazing late-70’s series Cosmos, which is available online here. I recommend it. More information about there series here.
The New York Times has an article about a new natural history museum in Kentucky for creationists. It sounds like a must-see destination: acres of meticulous reconstructions of what you get when you start with the premise of Genesis being the literal truth — and then rationally and logically slot all new empirical [...]
I’ve been enjoying the amazing late-70’s series Cosmos, which is available online here. I recommend it. More information about there series here.
The New York Times has an article about a new natural history museum in Kentucky for creationists. It sounds like a must-see destination: acres of meticulous reconstructions of what you get when you start with the premise of Genesis being the literal truth — and then rationally and logically slot all new empirical [...]
It’s the incredible, the incomparable, the inimitable, the … the Kate Miller-Heidke, with the first single from her first album available at last: Link. It’s great to see the new single highlighting the looney side of Kate’s persona, something that’s prominent onstage but hasn’t been represented as much in her recorded stuff. [...]
It’s the incredible, the incomparable, the inimitable, the … the Kate Miller-Heidke, with the first single from her first album available at last: Link. It’s great to see the new single highlighting the looney side of Kate’s persona, something that’s prominent onstage but hasn’t been represented as much in her recorded stuff. [...]
The President of the Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, claims to have discovered a cure for AIDS. It’s a secret mixture of seven herbs. The Economist reports that Gambian television has been repeatedly playing footage of the president applying the herbal mixture to patients’ heads while reciting verses from the Koran.
ScienceDaily reports that Jammeh’s only [...]
