Archive for April, 2010

What can’t the standard issue Chinese Military shovel do!?!

Today’s video of the day …

Flightradar24.com and openstreetmap.org provide this impressive visualisation of the northern European airspace returning to use after being closed due to volcanic ash.

Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

Fascinating video of the day

30 seconds of this July 16, 1969 launch … analyzed in slow motion by Spacecraft Films Executive Producer Mark Grey.

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

NASA recently launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which has been taking some amazing pictures and videos of the sun in different wavelengths. So now … we can see the sun in more detail than ever before.
Get more here.

When a new tweet appears, the Cookoo chirps … a clever skin around a wireless Chumby device.

In the “be careful what you ask for” department, the Portland Mercury ran a poll asking readers what they’d like to see on the cover. What they got: Betty White as a burning chainsaw wielding Princess Leia, riding man-horse John Ritter. Obviously.

Of course, we’re talking about the Portland Mercury … so maybe their readers on on to something.

Link: http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/IssueArchives?issue=2443959