Take a look at this picture taken by the Spirit Rover on Mars. That’s where we are… All your life from birth to the grave will happen on a little tiny bright spot in the Marsian sky. It’s a good thing to adjust our perspective from time to time…
“A World Of Sounds” is the title of a sidebar article that appears in this month’s Travel + Leisure magazine’s online feature about the Top 25 Travel Websites. The sidebar article features ten audio recordings from places around the world, including my Competing Chinese Operas, that has before been listed on the Quiet American. I’m [...]
After about four months of work – usually late at night or on weekends – both me and Kazumi are proud to present MapSkip to the world. We came up with the idea for this site when we were looking at other Google Maps mashups and one thing we noticed was how much the users [...]
Several blogs have been linking to this remarkable image over the last few days and I see no reason to hold back. If you click through to the large panorama at Wikipedia, you’ll see one of the earliest existing photos of Edo, which was rename a few years later to Tokyo. This panorama is from [...]
Over at the BlogBrothers, Bob Brady just posted a very touching remembrance of his father’s time in the Second World War. I have similar memories of my grandfather, who had been a soldier with the German army during the same war and who could never talk about his experience in Yugoslavia, even thirty years later. [...]
Kazumi has been posting desktop calendar backgrounds with some really amazing macro shots she took over the last year. This month’s is another beauty – click the photo to see her background gallery and download the latest one.