I took this photograph shortly after midnight on Monday, May 20, 2013. This is the view just outside my window.
Stargazing in Captain Cook, Hawaii
“The Histomap: 4000 Years of World History” is the Story of Civilization
Rand McNally, best known for their maps, atlases and globes, published “The Histomap: Four Thousand Years of World History” in 1931. It was created by John B. Sparks, and it originally sold for $1. The map measured 5’2″ tall. It was intended to “[dramatize] the great adventure of mankind.” It is the story of civilization. The colored regions represented the various empires throughout the last 4000 years.
Returning from the Edge of Space, A Tribute to Felix Baumgartner
Felix Baumgartner is slated to do a 120,000 foot skydive from the edge of space on Sunday, through the Red Bull Stratos Program. An attempt on Tuesday was cancelled due to weather. It’s an inspiring feat– defying gravity to get to the edge of space and shirking common sense by jumping out of a perfectly good… balloon.
While Baumgartner is at it, he will be breaking the sound barrier, going mach speed– like Chuck Yeager without the X-1. Incidentally, Yeager broke the sound barrier October 14, 1947. Baumgartner may potentially be doing it again sans aircraft October 14, 2012. As Matt Scott puts it: “To infinity and beyond… and back again…”
The battle for jobs in the future will focus on creative problem solving. Robots get the rest of the jobs.
The Robopocalypse won’t be a war between robots and humans. Robots, sentient or not, will be soldiers in a human war.
We all love to play.
I came across a monastery in Burma a few years ago and had an opportunity to play soccer with some of the monks. Outside of Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer, I…
Awesome Animated GIFs of Movie Stills
Tumblr user Tech Noir has taken the cinemagraph to high art by using iconic images from movies and distilling the essence of a scene into a continuous loop. Here are some of our favorites.
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