This one’s done by Rachel Stevens.
http://www.rachelgetsfruity.com/flash.html
You know, I think they’re on to something here. Instead of the usual PSAs where we get bombarded with statistics by pompous ugly people, they should just have hot chicks in their underwear telling us to exercise more, eat greens, recycle and generally make the world a Better Place(tm).
I’m fairly certain that would be more effective.
Sweet.
If you haven’t used Maps before – you can click and drag the map as well
as zoom in and out.
Other places:
Burning oil wells in Iraq (zoom + might be gone after next update..)
SR71 Blackbirds (center of image)
To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our earth isn’t the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From biology we learned that we weren’t specially created by God but evolved along with millions of other species. Now archaeology is demolishing another sacred belief: that human history over the past million years has been a long tale of progress. In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.
It’s sounds to me like a word for describing the act of coughing up feces, but no – it’s the name of a manufactured girl group targeting 8-year olds with a significantly sub-average IQ. Hey, it’s a HUUUGE segment, right, don’t diss this shit!
Check out the awesomeness that is Huckapoo here. Turn the volume down if you’re at work, or people just might start buying you Barbie dolls for your next birthday..
Radosh.net has an excellent summary right here. Actually, read that first. Background here.
Anyone with an interest in how our digital freedoms are being whittled away, how the music, movie and television landscapes are about to change forever, or how a new, empowered generation of users (mostly young people) see media differently than the older crowd, would benefit from marking up their copy of Darknet (bring two yellow markers). As the author [says], “Media will change more in the next five years than it has in the past 50 years.”
TOKYO — Japan wants to help build a lunar base and populate it with advanced versions of today’s humanoid robots by around 2025, according to the head of the nation’s space agency.
The idea is more than a pipe-dream; it is part of a 20-year plan, called JAXA Vision 2025, that was drawn up by Keiji Tachikawa, a former president of Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo, who is now president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA).
Alain Robert aka ze French Spiderman.
This guy makes a sport out of free climbing the worlds largest buildings.
Check out the Photo gallery
Nuke some grapes and see the plasma!
There’s some other ways to create plasma in your microwave, but I can’t find them right now…
The Liverpudlians have done it!
Created by The University of Liverpool Library with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the SF Hub aims to facilitate research into science fiction and its related literary genres.
How is it that some technological innovations get taken up by the masses, and others don’t? How important are innovators and early adopters in this?
Well Mr. Rogers apparently wrote the bible on this:
Rogers, E.M. (1995). Diffusion of innovations (4th edition). The Free Press. New
York.
Here’s the theory laid out in bare bones with an applied example
Here’s a point by point precis
http://www.ksu.edu/humec/atid/UDF/diffusion_model.htm
and here’s a precis of the theory.
This couple has an interesting way of expressing their commitment to each other.
Don’t read on a full stomach.
http://www.bmezine.com/news/pubring/20050401.html
Now everyone will die the primitive way!
Somebody get me a copy of this..
http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22948
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