Month: January 2009
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Underwater movies
I recently met a couple of fine underwater movies. One shows a dive to find a nautilus at great depths; The second shows a phosphorescent amalgam of abyss animals. Always a source of great surprises. YouTube link YouTube link
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Mega-pixel Obama
David Bergman created a large superb image of more than a billion pixels during Barack Obama’s inaugural address in Washington, on January 20th. Source: YLovePhoto.
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Affordable private jet
Is it the crisis, the recession or what? People would like you to think that you can now get a private jet for nearly nothing. Jumpjet is trying to make it more affordable than many business trip tickets Aviation told us about microjets, like those from Eclipse Aviation intended to make it more affordable than…
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The longest photo
After showing here several record images in terms of resolution, here is a picture (with its own incredibly large quantity of pixels) of a record length: 100 meters. Here, panorama takes it to such extremes… It was taken over the course of 20 days and includes 178 different people. Source: Simon Hoegsberg, via The Online…
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How do you make a globe
In our short series of “How do you make…”, here is the industrial manuacturing of terrestrial globes How would you do it? The same way as described here? YouTube link Note: I said globe, not blog… 🙂
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Nobody reads my blog…
Thank you, Xtian.
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Obama inauguration seating chart
It seems that there will be plenty of people to be present during the inauguration of Barrack Obama. Needless to say, most people will not even have a hint about what happens on stage, if they are located as suggested in the following map: Kudos to Tom Toles.
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Derelict Japanese suspension bridge
You loved the Grand Canyon sky walk, and the previously available video of the El Camino del Rey Walkway. So, you proved that you aren’t susceptible to vertigo. Will you love this old suspension bridge from Japan? It’s old, derelict. The wind is pushing it. Link to the video