Strindberg and Helium
Funnier than it looks and a complete waste of time!! Miseryyyy!
Secret Life of Plants
Some cool time-lapse movies of plants in action. The descriptions are super informative too!
Ants with tree magnetism
Some researchers at UC Berkely and U Texas have found that certain species of tropical canopy ants will do a cool mid-air ninja move and glide back towards the tree trunk. Be sure to check out the movie too (RealPlayer). Also cool is the recent Science News article which quotes John Longino!! Link to article.
NASA World Wind
Holy Giant world of satellite imagery Batman!!!
THis is a very cool program that you can download for free from NASA that allows you to zoom in with surprisingly good detail on a planet full of Landsat and other imagery. For the
Note: you should have a decent video card with 3D acceleration and a high speed internet connection for best results. Hope you enjoy!
**But wait - there's more!! For those who just cant wait to see the new SEM, NASA also has this cool program Virtual Lab. Not as cool as WorldWind, but nice nonetheless.. (all via Metafilter)
Stay informed ... via the CAL
New proof that man has caused global warming via timesonline.co.uk -- like, duh.
SGR 1806-20 says "ka-boom" in gamma. via BBC News -- too bad we missed it due to cloud cover...
Solar + Stirling engine (?!?) equals juice! via Pop Sci. -- Been waiting for someone to exhume
One for the Kid in us all: http://www.scitoys.com/ found via del.icio.us.
Okay, how bout something useful.
A pretty thorough list of Windows/DOS commands to impress your friends with. Be the first to dazzle your friends with the dreaded {WIN+R, control timedate.cpl} combination! Yes, you could have just double clicked on the time at the bottom right of the screen, but that wouldn't have shown off your m4d sk1llz, now would it?
Posted by Brian at 11:36 PM | Comments (1)
Time to populate this sucker
Exhibit A:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lrvk/lejo/dj.html (Flash Req'd) Brilliant!