no surf today. the swell was still too big for the beaches.
the 43 degrees today made this the hottest december on
record.
just heard about librivox.org where you can download
audio books that are in the public domain..
that means free people !!!
Xeni Jardin:
Snip from NYT story by James Bamford:
Deep in a remote, fog-layered hollow near Sugar Grove, W.Va., hidden by fortress-like mountains, sits the country’s largest eavesdropping bug.
Located in a “radio quiet” zone, the station’s large parabolic dishes secretly and silently sweep in millions of private telephone calls and e-mail messages an hour.
Run by the ultrasecret National Security Agency,…
track the yachting race live here.
Read more »if you read this can you add yourself to this frapper map http://www.frappr.com/clogwoginoz
Read more »scott adams, well know
for his dilbert strip, has written an e-book that will make you head
spin. it's not funny, it's not a dilbert but i would recommend you read
his free story. download it here.
it's an unusual 132 page story that makes you think.
thanks for the suggestion ralph !
Read more »David Pescovitz:
Aaron Koblin generated a series of beautifully-surreal visualizations
of air traffic above the US. Seen here is a still from the “3D
Blobular” animation.
From his site:
The… flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics
by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted
using the Processing programming environment. The frames were
composited with Adobe…
A
hydrogen storage tablet developed at the Technical University of
Denmark could help lead the way to safe hydrogen powered vehicles.
Should
you drive a car 600 km using gaseous hydrogen at normal pressure, it
would require a fuel tank with a size of nine cars. With our
technology, the same amount of hydrogen can be stored in a normal
gasoline tank, says Professor Claus Hviid Christensen,…
godoggo is an automatic ball-thrower to keep your dog busy. check out todd and titus and the section where people have send in video footage of how they train their dog with godoggo.
as they say: we couldn't make this stuff up if we tried