Hopefully the Anchorman animated .GIF shows up properly….
(Source: whereismyoscar)
“NASA has released a new Blue Marble image, showing the United States of America. According to them, it’s the “most amazing, highest resolution image of Earth ever.” Blue Marble 2012 bests the 2010 edition and the original one.”
SlashSearch Chrome extension
Check out this very useful Chrome extension:
SlashSearch (or “slash search”) adds simple hotkey searching to any website. When you press the forward slash key on a webpage, it will do one of two things: 1. If the website has a search feature, SlashSearch will focus on the page’s search box. Just hit “/” and start typing your query! 2. If the website doesn’t have a search feature, SlashSearch will render its own search box. You can enter a query into the box and search the site using Google.
Sen. Ron Wyden: PIPA/SOPA Is a Congressional Wake-Up Call
Nicely-written op-ed piece:
So the question is, did Congress learn anything? Will Washington lament last week like it was a bad review that cost it business or will it recognize what happened as an opportunity to learn and do better?
If members of Congress better understood the central role that the Internet plays in their constituents’ lives – the hub through which Americans work, communicate, share, learn, create and enjoy entertainment – they would understand why their constituents fought so hard to protect it.
Handy “manual” photography cheat sheet that graphically depicts the basics of the exposure triangle
(via Living in the Stills)
Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) recently worked with colleagues at the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey to create such an inventory for the United States. The map above was built from the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset (NBCD), released in 2011. It depicts the concentration of biomass—a measure of the amount of organic carbon—stored in the trunks, limbs, and leaves of trees. The darkest greens reveal the areas with the densest, tallest, and most robust forest growth.
Did you know...
The Kerguelen Islands comprise the only land mass antipodal to the continental United States.
Because learning is half the battle…
[via Hot Links]
Don Cheadle is Captain Planet… and things don’t go exactly as expected.
[Language NSFW]
via: herochan
(Source: FunnyOrDie.com)
What Facebook's Open Graph Update Means For Your Timeline
“Yesterday Facebook launched Open Graph, its tool for letting third party developers share actions in your timeline, with 60 new partners. Here’s what you can do with it, and why you might not like it.”
TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA / PIPA
If the animated GIF doesn’t show up, it’s well worth visiting the site to see it… :-)
SOPA STRIKE - Largest online protest in history
Tomorrow many Internet sites (including Wikipedia, Reddit, TUCOWS, The Internet Archive, and more) will go dark in protest of the upcoming SOPA and PIPA bills. These bills are based on dangerously uninformed ideas of how The Internet works and have disastrous ramifications well beyond the intentions of the legislators.
Looking deeper, it is clear that the legislators of these bills have been bought and paid for unduly influenced by media corporations desperate to eke profits from anachronistic business models, and it’s high time that someone calls them out. Educate yourself and let your legislator know how you feel!
On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House - to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. We need internet companies to follow Reddit’s lead and stand up for the web, as we internet users are doing every day.
Lionel Richie’s “Hello” recreated with film clips. Surprisingly good…
(Source: vimeo.com)
[the films of] Tim Burton (by Kees van Dijkhuizen jr.) “celebrates Tim Burton’s fourteen feature films in all its gory glory.”
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