Every now and then it is worth to sit back and remember what a beautiful planet we are living on. This photo was taken at the end of July by a new weather satellite, GOES14, in a geostationary orbit at a distance of 36000 kilometers. You have to click through to see the breathtaking large [...]
Every now and then the Internet reveals something amazing about us and the rainbow of cultures we represent on this planet… Kazumi just now called me over to her computer to look at the video below, and – wow! – that is definitely one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in a very long [...]
After my recent post on San Francisco’s original Emanu-El Synagogue I got a link to this photo from Richard over at Sparkletack and in that picture of Sutter Street of just after the earthquake of 1906 there is an advertisement for MJB coffee clearly visible on a wall of one of the destroyed buildings. That [...]
My good friend Steve has embarked on a mission to Make Things – and I’m very late to point you all to his site, which is going strong with multiple mentions on and awards from Make and Instructables. And in addition to build amazing things like the very funny mini-robots for his Robot Cocktail Party, [...]
Kazumi and me have been working on MapSkip.com for over two years now and the growth curve was definitely very slow in the beginning… but over the last year the site has finally found its audience and we’ve been able to introduce many new features that have been accepted very well. And so today, we [...]
Definition of Irony: A group of smoking scientists in front of the entrance to the 13th World Conference on Lung Cancer. Saw that today on the way to the computer store and I was still thinking about how weird the world sometimes can be while I was installing the new hard disk two hours later…