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Interesting reading on the Air France 447 tragedy

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


 

The Truth About Cars

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MiscellanyTTAC 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

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Science & TechnologyBy 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

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NewsworthyThese 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.
 
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11 die climbing K2

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

New info on SOE's "The Agency"

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GamesJonnyG 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

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Science & TechnologyThis 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

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Entertainment"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

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

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Entertainment

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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