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Friday, July 03 2009 @ 02:18 PM PDT

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Interesting reading on the Air France 447 tragedy

Tuesday, June 02 2009 @ 10:39 AM PDT
Contributed by: matt
Views: 85

This is a list of interesting material I have found while reading about the AF447 investigation.

Detailed meteorological analysis of the area
Big forum thread at airliners.net. Interesting reading--some pilots are participating.
Similar thread at jetphotos.net.
Lightning strike protection for composite aircraft
BBC article indicating debris has been spotted. Page has links to many other AF447 articles.
More recent article about the debris, with many interesting tidbits.
AirDisaster.com also has news on their front page.
SailWX.info lets you track the positions of vessels at sea. This link shows the area of the crash; currently the Dutch vessel Jo Cedar is on site, looking for debris.

The Truth About Cars

Sunday, December 21 2008 @ 06:39 AM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 586

TTAC is a web site with news and reviews. It's an enjoyable read. Their Worst of 2008 article was entertaining. If you are a defender of Detroit, you probably won't like what you see here.

Extremely Clever: Hand drawn holograms

Friday, December 05 2008 @ 05:59 AM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 650

By making scratches in a piece of clear plastic, you can create crude holograms viewable in normal light. Learn how at the link.

California Burns Again

Sunday, November 16 2008 @ 02:48 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 632

These pictures were taken on November 16 2008 in Diamond Bar, CA. The city's posh gated community, called "The Country," was evacuated due to fire danger. Not for the first time, planes had to make fire retardant drops around Ridge Line Road. See more below.

Currently there are fires in Brea and Yorba Linda, among many other places. iReport has more photos of the fires.

Update: Excellent photos at Boston.com.

11 die climbing K2

Tuesday, October 28 2008 @ 11:58 AM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 750

This is an interesting and morbid article about mountain climber deaths.

New info on SOE's "The Agency"

Friday, August 22 2008 @ 09:46 AM PDT
Contributed by: matt
Views: 941

JonnyG from The Agency HQ was at SOE's Fan Faire and talked to Hal Milton (lead designer), Steve Kramer (PvP designer), and Lorien Gremore (buildmistress). The interview transcripts reveal some new information about The Agency.

Part 1: PVP
Part 2: Operatives and Missions

Large Hadron Collider: Pretty Pictures

Friday, August 01 2008 @ 02:41 PM PDT
Contributed by: matt
Views: 1,047

This article has many excellent pictures of the gigantic machines that make up CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Even if you don't care about subatomic physics and the nature of reality, the pictures are astonishing.

Bonus content: an article which explains how the LHC will not destroy the world, and some photos and plain-English summaries of what the LHC is actually looking for.

Interviews with movie & TV people of interest to geeks

Friday, July 18 2008 @ 11:01 AM PDT
Contributed by: matt
Views: 1,175

"Den of Geek" has a load of interviews with movie & TV folks. Subjects include John Carpenter, Andy Serkis, Dan O'Bannon, and more...

Wrongcrowd.com is HUGE in Switzerland

Monday, May 12 2008 @ 04:48 PM PDT
Contributed by: matt
Views: 1,282

This site's administrator was recently contacted by a Swiss newspaper which wished to use a photo from the wrongcrowd.com gallery in a newspaper article about HDR photography. How the Swiss tech writer selected this photo from the millions of high dynamic range shots out there will forever be mysterious, but the espresso stand on Kirkland's Juanita Beach is now famous among a small subset of German speaking Swiss newspaper readers.

Article text at the SonntagsZeitung web site
PDF of the printed page

Sony Online Entertainment's "The Agency" in the Seattle Times

Monday, May 12 2008 @ 04:39 PM PDT
Contributed by: matt
Views: 1,426

Sony Online Entertainment's game studio in Bellevue is on a mission with "The Agency," a James Bondish thriller it has been developing since 2005.

The mission's getting less secret by the day � especially since the Sony division boss will talk it up during a games conference in Seattle this week � but it's still pretty intriguing.Sony is hoping "The Agency" creates a new genre that blends the action of first-person shooting games with the immersive experience of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games.

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