Marine Traffic Google Mashup
MarineTraffic.com have produced a Google Map showing real-time information about ship movements throughout the world.
The system is based on AIS (Automatic Identification System). The International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires all vessels over 299GT to carry an AIS transponder on board, which transmits data on position, speed and course, among some other static information, such as the vessel’s name, dimensions and voyage details.
The inside dish from Marilyn Monroe's mortician.
Early in the afternoon I tuned into the teevee broadcast to catch Obama's speech... Fast forward to after the dinner hour and some tinkering around with toys, etc. The kids disappeared into another room for a while. With preschoolers you get a little worried when things get quiet so we offered a gentle call to make sure they were still alive. "Just a second, Obama is speaking" was the reply. This was quickly followed with a command to the younger sibling..."Help get the stadium filled". That certainly piqued enough curiosity to go take a look in the other room. This is what we saw.
Former CNET greentech reporter Michael Kanellos is too good at writing and too funny in writing to be an analyst. Dude needs to get back into the pure writing game.
Wow. That's funny.
I am seriously guilty of looking at my phone while walking. I probably read 50 news items this way, bumbling down 3rd street going in to work. My problem isn't that I actually hit stuff, it's that when I've been looking down and I look up and see something sort of close to me, it freaks me out that I might hit it and I take evasive maneuvers. So I end up dodging poles and juking stollers that are 7 feet away. Tree branches, with all those shaking leaves, are particularly problematic for my phone-addled vision.
My favorite app -- Zimride Carpool App -- gets FBFunding!
Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG reminded me of this incredible story with his post on Shanghai tunnels.
Handmade by a Russian cosmonaut, Georgi Grechko, this cyclogram shows a 96-day flight of Salyut 6. Some 22 parallel time-series show 1500 sunrises and 1500 sunsets during the flight, a schedule for space walks and baths, and visits of resupply ships bringing equipment, fresh fruit, and gingerbread. Printed in six colors on fine paper, 36” by 20”.
Drug carrying submarines are one of my favorite topics.
My hilarious interaction with the USA Today Instant Messenger Bot. I'm not sure why I started talking with it, but I'm sure glad that I did.
"Your welcome." Who trained it to say these things?