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colinnissan: THE NEW YORKER: You Are Now Under Witness Protection. By entering the Witness Protection Program, you’re agreeing to completely cut ties with the old you. You may have been Jon Richards in your past life, but now you’re Ron Jichards. You may have had a wife, but now you have a “gife.” You may…
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Better Than A Van Gogh: NASA Visualizes All The World’s Ocean Currents We imagine the ocean as having high tides and low tides, water that comes in and out in waves. Beyond that, how does water actually move around the world? What’s that flow look like? NASA Scientific Visualization Studio assembled this remarkable animation of the…
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pbsthisdayinhistory: APRIL 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated Forty-four years ago, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee. http://www-tc.pbs.org/s3/pbs.videoportal-prod.cdn/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf Watch this American Experience clip of King describing the teachings of the nonviolence movement. King also shares his thoughts on Malcolm X’s criticism and President Kennedy’s strides to help…
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Microsoft, West Coast Customs Create the Ultimate 400-hp ‘Device’ How do you remake an automotive icon? If you’re West Coast Customs, it starts with some oversized dubs and copious quantities of neon lighting. If you’re the Microsoft skunkworks development team, it means incorporating the company’s entire suite of mobile and gaming services into one of…
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My Los Gatos estate for your Facebook shares, Silicon Valley exec says In a Silicon Valley real estate market crazed by the impending Facebook public offering, this may be worth a second look. A valley executive says he’ll swap his 11.5-acre estate in Los Gatos for about $29 million worth of pre-IPO Facebook shares. The owner, Ken…
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Ireland shrugs off austerity for St. Patrick’s Day Parades and festivals were being held throughout Ireland on Saturday as the debt-ridden country shrugged off economic austerity measures for the traditional Saint Patrick’s Day party. The centrepiece of the celebrations, the Dublin parade and its marching bands, attracts about half a million people onto the capital’s…
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