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Venice under water 
(unknown author) via The Big Picture on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
The recent "acqua alta" (high water) in Venice, Italy reached a depth of 1.56 meters (5 ft, 1 in.) on Monday - the deepest flood in 22 years, and the fourth highest flood level in recent history, claimed Venice's Tide Center. The water began to subside on Tuesday, while residents and tourists made their way through the city, hip-waders or not - one man even took the opportunity to ride his wa
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The One sent me to the Northern Rockies to get this photo for The Machine
tratcliff via Stuck In Customs on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
I tip my hat to the great Kevin Kelly, who always seems to be surfing on the same wave, giving me hang-ten signs via his polemics. In case you don’t know who Kelly is, watch one of his great speeches at TED right here.
The One is already extending itself with me. I am totally comfortab
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Alternate Currency
(unknown author) via xkcd.com on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
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A Taste of Magic: The First Apps We Show New Users
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Whether it's with your family, your co-workers or your clients - many of us like to share the excitement we have about the new, social web with others. What do you show other people to demonstrate how powerful, and yet easy to use, this new world of technology really is?
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Chandra in 3D
(unknown author) via Dynamics of Cats on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Gorgeous 3D gallery toy for Chandra images from ChandraBlog
Requires CoolIris plug-in. Read the comments on this post...
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Google Buys 20 Million Archived Newspaper Pages [Newspapers]
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Google has upped its commitment to bringing newspaper archives online, first announced in September, by
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Cassini Video
Tom via Tom's Astronomy Blog on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Here’s a short and very well done documentary about the Cassini mission narrated by Carolyn Poroco.
I found this over at L/Studio, they have quite a few videos on a variety of topics.
L/Studio isn’t all videos either,they have a number of articles from Lexus Magazine, that alone is worth a look, especially if you have dial up and
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At Jupiter’s Core
Administrator via Centauri Dreams on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
I first encountered the surface of Jupiter decades ago, in a study hall in John Burroughs School in St. Louis, Missouri. It was a warm spring day and I was theoretically trying to bone up for a math test two periods hence. But deciding to squeeze in a little reading before I hit the algebra, I read the paragraphs that follow and spent little of the next two hours thinking about anything else:
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Tilt Shift Photography Using Google Earth
Frank Taylor of Google Earth B via Google Earth Blog on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
DigitalUrban blog regularly provides a look at many different visualization techniques for cityscapes with a special emphasis on 3D building views. Recently DigitalUrban has been writing about tilt-shift miniature faking photography (
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Five Best CD and DVD Burning Tools [Hive Five]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
The internet has made it easier than ever to share media and data with friends, family, and co-workers, but that doesn't mean burning your own CDs and DVDs is a thing of the past. Blank optical discs are dirt cheap, they work virtually everywhere, and if you
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Fragments of Canadian Fireball Found
Nancy Atkinson via Universe Today on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Fragments of the big meteorite that lit up the Canadian skies across the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan last
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WalMart Worker Trampled to Death by Deal-Crazed Black Friday Shoppers [Black Friday]
(unknown author) via Gizmodo on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
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Disgusting.
OK, Black Friday has officially gotten out of hand. A 34-year-old WalMart employee was trying to hold back the crowds at a Long Island store this morning at 5am, when they took the doors off their hinges and stormed th
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Google Fighting a Virus and Publishing in Nature
Christine Buske via Google Tutor on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Google didn’t grow to the company it is today by just being interested in simple search queries. If any company has succeeded to transform ’search’ into a business, and develop
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Tilt-Shift Video Makes Demolition Derby Look Even Sillier [Special Thanksgiving Eye Candy]
(unknown author) via Gizmodo on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
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This is such an awesome technique. I'm always impressed by the results. This video is no exception!
This is one of the most amazing pieces of eye ca
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As TV Networks Focus on Mumbai Landmarks, Local Captures Ground Shots On Flickr
Sarah Lai Stirland via Threat Level on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Shortly after he heard explosions outside of his home in the Colaba district in Mumbai, 27-year-old Vinu Ranganathan grabbed his camera and ran outside to take some shots. For hours, his graphic photos of the destruction wrought by the terrorists in the Colaba district on the photo-sharing site Flickr seemed to be the only relevant ones ava
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World is 6K old, Obama = Terrorist, Texans = Morons
(unknown author) via Greg Laden's Blog on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Sorry, Texans, but as long as you keep doing this, the rest of the world is going to keep making jokes that are not so funny about you. Please get your acts together and fix this, OK?
Enjoy this commentary by David Newman in the Austin American Statesman:
Power has attra
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The International Space Station turns 10
(unknown author) via The Big Picture on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the first launched module of the International Space Station (ISS). The module Zarya was lifted into orbit on November 20th, 1998 by a Russian Proton rocket lifting off from Baikonur, Kazhakstan. In the decade since, 44 manned flights and 34 unmanned flights have carried further modules, solar arrays, support equipment, supplies and a total of 167 huma
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Obama might get rid of daylight saving time
(unknown author) via Boing Boing on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
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I don't think I'd mind this a bit.
President-elect Obama wants to get rid of daylight saving time in the United States to conserves energy.
Turns out, according to two academics on the NYT Op-Ed page, there is little scientific proof th
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