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        20091211   

Cryptic Overcast @ Geno's 12/10/2009

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        20091208   

WILD Burritos

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        20091205   

Most Amazing Scientific Images

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Worth a look, if you're into that sort of thing: The Most Amazing Scientific Images (as chosen by Popsci.com). Of note:

Boeing's Latest Mobile Laser Weapon Tracks and Shoots Shit down:

Boeing recently announced it successfully tracked and shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle with a laser weapon. Actually, it shot down five UAVs at various ranges with the trailer-mounted Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated eXperiments (MATRIX).

And there is a lot more:

Swimming around in their tank, these autonomous robotic jellyfish move alone or in a swarm and communicate with their brethren to avoid underwater collisions.

Scientists measure methane at the source: In a lush pasture near Buenos Aires, this cow and its compatriots are digesting important information: how much methane—a greenhouse gas 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide—is released by the country’s 55 million bovines. (that poor cow)

A horse trots along a dirt road in Turkey, encased by the Kurtsystems Car equine training system. What may look like a complex horse-drawn carriage is actually a high-tech way to automate the delicate process of training racehorses. The horse isn’t pulling the four-and-a-half-ton, $427,000 vehicle. Rather, the vehicle keeps pace with the animal, and trainers fit the horse with equipment such as an electrocardiogram machine, oxygen masks and movement sensors to monitor its performance. WHAT?

You get the idea.. check it out.

        20091124   

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Pollen is pretty

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Pollen is really pretty when you look at it up close and personal

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Sparklines!

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While I don't have much need for Excel most of the times, it's nice to see they have added support for sparklines.

Too bad they are trying to patent use of sparklines in spreadsheets, though, as it's a no-brainer and something the inventor of sparklines, Edward Tufte, suggested many years before. At least he just wants his ideas to be free.

        20091118   

'C' is for Corruption.

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Transparency International has a great interactive map of perceived political corruption based on their annual Corruption Perceptions Index.

Unsurprisingly, the Scandinavian countries score at the top, along with Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, Australia. NZ appears to be the least corrupt of all.

Also unsurprising is the clump of intense corruption you see in the Iraq-Iran-Afghan corridor and middle-Africa.

        20091117   

Ocean @ Geno's, Friday the 13th

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askin' a lot out of a big crop on this last one, but I liked it

        20091112   

Def Leppard, Clash of the Titans @ Empire, 11/10/2009

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Comment posted by  Anonymous @ 12/02/2009 9:08 AM:

Seriously, find a copy of Hysteria and listen to it start to finish- its amazing. Possibly the greatest piece of art produced by Western Civilization.
It certainly has the highest production value....