Guaranteed to blow your mind – a time-lapse video shot by International Space Station astronauts flying over the Earth over a period of two months. Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo. (via MetaFilter where they’ve solved what the ribbon of light across a […]
We went down to Williston, North Dakota at the end of summer and it was clear that this small American city with a population of about 10 000, like its Candian counterparts, Weyburn and Estevan, was booming due to the oil economy and various related industries. One industry that’s not available in the Canadian cities […]
X-Factor is the new Simon Cowell owned-show he’s imported from the UK to compete with American Idol, the top-rated franchise he left last year. Although both shows have similar formats, X-Factor allows groups, a wider age range for contestants and holds auditions in front of an audience instead of just the judges’ panel among other […]
Depending on where you live (and where you get your news), the Occupy Wall Street movement, may or may not be on your radar. These protests, which started in New York but have since spread to other cities around the world, are “mainly protesting against social and economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of […]
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the site, Reddit. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s currently my favourite site on the Internet. One of the reasons I like the site so much (and one of the site’s greatest advantages) is the fact that it literally has an unlimited […]
Many bemoan the coverage of politics that treats it more like sports than something with real-world purpose and implications. The good folks at Slate magazine have gone one step further, creating a very cool web page that shows the current Republican nomination battle as an actual horse race! They should open source this code and […]
Just heard the news and, as with Jack Layton’s passing, the death of the co-founder of Apple was probably not a complete surprise but still pretty shocking. In fact, when I said how sad I was, Shea said “As sad as when Jack Layton died?” and I replied “More.” I went on to explain that […]
I recently discovered an awesome sub-Reddit called r/mapporn which features all kinds of really frickin’ cool maps such as “America 1681“, “Flipping European and North American Cities“, “World Map of Railways“, “Map of Facebook Connections” and I have to stop there or else I’ll just link to all their maps – each one is so […]
The Westboro Baptist Church are a truly odious group of folks (widely referred to as a hate group) who travel around “protesting” various events that they somehow think are connected to homosexuality. But when they chose to protest a recent Foo Fighters concert, the band had a response planned. (Of course this raises questions about […]
I admit that I’m such a library nerd that sometimes when I’m bored and can’t think of something to look at on the Internet, I’ll just go to a random library’s web site to see what’s up, what they’re doing, how they present themselves. It’s especially fun to pick libraries that you expect to be […]
