Google Earth Blog has found a pretty cool easter egg:
You can actually clearly see the shadow of the guy flying this remote controlled aircraft east of London, England in Google Earth. Yet another example of very high resolution aerial photos to be found in GE.
Lord, I hope so and Ben Maller says so:
Harry Caray is back, Purple Cow Productions announced the documentary “Hello Again Everybody” will begin production this month and is slated for release this Summer. The documentary will portray the life of the legendary radio/TV broadcaster Harry Christopher Carabina, otherwise known as “Harry Caray,” and his 53 years in baseball broadcasting, according to BUSINESSWIRE.com. (go)
Here’s a very rare commercial for the NES’ Star Wars game:
There’s no way to be certain but I think this was the first Nintendo ad I ever saw as a child.
Here’s the Japanese version, and a few other NES related commercials:
Thomas Beller of the NYT tells a pretty amusing story of almost having the subway eat his iPod:
The subway doors were still open. I was listening to a Chopin prelude, and I was moving fast. I took the last few steps in a giant jump, sidestepping a man in a wheelchair who was shaking a cup of change. The sounds of piano filled my head. I was going to make the train.
Then I felt a brief tug on my ears, and silence. The iPod had fallen through a hole in my coat pocket and skidded across the platform like a bright white hockey puck. There was a sharp thwack as it slammed into the side of the subway car and fell into the crack between platform and subway, down to the tracks. The whole moment had the brisk finality of a goal in air hockey.
(Read on)
I saw this today at DailyTech:
By creating plasma in open air with lasers, Japanese scientists are working on a true 3D display
The Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) announced an exciting breakthrough in optoelectronics — a working three dimensional display. The display does not rely on any sort of optical illusion or disorientation. Instead, infrared lasers are aligned to converge and create small amounts of plasma. The plasma acts as a floating “dot” on top of the laser grid.
I can’t imagine the number of applications this might have. Medicine, military, gaming and architecture to name just a few.
I would also like to mention that I’m now obsessed with seeing this thing project an image of the Death Star or Endor:
First look at Gmail Talk Beta built-in chat feature for Gmail. This is only active in one of my Gmail accounts. More screenshots later..
Michael Castellon 