Interactive Global Storm Tracker
Rich sent me this great interactive global storm tracker
Rich sent me this great interactive global storm tracker
Seven reasons the 21st century is making you miserable — this is a fascinating look at how isolated we've become.
The world clock [via Rich]
Scott Adams: My compliments to you
Map of Antarctica — without the ice
Coping with death on the web [via Dave]
Amazing story: If a great musician plays great music from great composers on a great violin, but no one cares, was he really any good? [via Paul J.]
Via Paul J.: Collect-me-nots: "The owner of Napoleon’s penis died last Thursday in Englewood, N.J." [NYT registration required]
I love this: Brad's A Childhood Saved, records of a natural and personal history.
My six-week journey to the land of the thin — extreme dieting
Multi-tasking makes you less productive. This is something I'm just beginning to learn. (See my recent epiphany about getting more work done when I don't have a wireless internet connection.)
This too shall pass: The key to staying calm during an argument
How marbles are made — stick around for the lovely hand-crafted marble. It's fascinating.
Demolished buildings of Portland, a map by tinzero
The Astoria Notes — a series of missives from a downstairs neighbor
For Kris: The Slav Epic, the magnum opus of Alphonse Mucha
Ooh. Way cool: The Dinosaur Factory [view first | view second] via mefi
DrawerGeeks! Not what you think it is.
AskMe: Does having children make people less happy? Studies show that kids decrease happiness levels in parents slightly. Here are some anecdotal responses.
Life 2.0: The Little Book of Flow — an encapsulation of the idea of "flow" in a longish blog entry
Walk on the water: a pool filled with a non-Newtonian fluid
What if all humans vanished? [via Dave]
Old Portland, a Flickr photoset [via frykitty]
Are you a CraigsList fiend? Try ListPic, which gives the site a new front-end. Not necessarily better, but different, and fun.
A review ripping Burning Man: "Burning Man is not run for hippies and not run by hippies. It is run by thugs and bullies for the benefit of thugs and bullies. It is a festival for the Freudian Id."
Waxy has the amazing tale of a sex-baiting prank on craigslist in which a couple hundred responders have been "outed". This is disturbing on many, many levels.
Everyday (a work in progress) — guy photographs himself every day for 6-1/2 years, makes a video, sets it to music. The effect is mesmerizing.
For Pam and Sabino and Marcela: research into language acquisition in children, particularly in bilingual children. Fascinating science!
This is awesome. Hating America isn't really about hating America, but about the cultural adaptations one makes after spending a long time in a third-world country and then returning to the U.S. Why is it that everyone who comes back finds the U.S. more foreign than the country they're returning from? Excellent reading.
The 1% Rule — in online communities, 1% of users create content, 10% interact with it, and 89% simply watch. But everyone benefits from the content. Very interesting.
The secret to wisdom is strong opinions weakly held [via kottke]
Mt. Everest panorama — it's kind of awesome to see this, including the Hilary Step. So many people have died in this one spot. And it's the location of so much personal achievement. [via rich]
How meditation works — I've been thinking I should practice a little meditation in order to calm the million thoughts constantly buzzing in my head...
Awesome hurricane animation demonstrating the effects of storms ranging from category one to category five. Excellent. Thanks again, Rich!
The end of network neutrality? Susan forwarded this article to me. It's an interesting disucssion on the future of the internet, a future being decided by Congress right now.
Awesome article on train surfing in South Africa
Amazing! Sir David Attenborough, naturalist and pioneer of the nature documentary, turned 80 last month. To mark the occasion, Britons were asked to choose their favorite Attenborough moment and of all the memorable scenes, his recording of the lyrebird came out on top. In this clip the bird mimics neighboring birds, several cameras, car alarms, and perhaps most impressively, loggers with chainsaws. (wmv, qt) [via mefi by way of frykitty]
Getting Real: an interview with Jason Fried — I find this guy's story inspirational. It's similar to what I plan to do with some of my stuff.
Video: amazing R/C airplane demo
My feelings about market economies are all kerfuffled. The Great Money Trick does nothing to help. Am I a capitalist or am I socialist? Maybe I'm both. And neither.
Is this a repeat? I love stories of feral children. They're wild! [via Dave]
A future with no bananas? "Go bananas while you still can. The world's most popular fruit and the fourth most important food crop of any sort is in deep trouble. Its genetic base, the wild bananas and traditional varieties cultivated in India, has collapsed."
A great weblog entry that I wish I had written: The Best and the Interesting
AskMe: Have you ever managed to quit using the internet? I've given it up for short periods, and loved it, but am always drawn back. I've talked with others who have had similar experiences. Now, though, I'm entrenched: I'm running three sites and have bought into the lifestyle!
For Kris: Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab 'The Body Farm' Where the Dead Do Tell Tales. That's an awful title, but the book looks intriguing, even to me. (And I'm not even a trained observer!) [via frykitty]
Soviet underground submarine base — I love cool abandoned structures like this [via Dave]
Wildlife defies Chernobyl radiation — this is a fascinating story of how the twenty-mile exclusion zone around the failed reactor has become something of a nature preserve
The Incredible Machine — a series of elaborate Rube Goldberg-style machines that do nothing, but are simply amazing to watch [via frykitty]
Adapt to experience: "Nothing is more important than developing the ability to learn and understand new things that enable you to change.
If you can change your future is open. If you are incapable of change your future is closed."
