Amazing: Google Earth clock tells time with satellite photos!
The Google Earth clock uses objects photographed from space that look like numbers to give you the time.
These are not just screen captures of the objects, but actual Google Earth views — five of them — that change every few seconds. And when they change, as always in Google Earth, the view zooms out, flies across the face of the globe and then zooms in on the new “number.”
Incredible!
http://googleearthclock.cwandt.com/
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Happy Halloween!
Don’t Eat Too Much Candy 🙂
Giant robot dinosaur hands out wisdom.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html
HaaH is generally pretty amazing, but this post after a very long silence talks so candidly and with such insight about depression that it’s in a league all its own.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html
Yeah, how dare that Grand Jury arraign members of the police? What a bunch of assholes!
Patrick J. Lynch, the union president, said at a news conference that the officers had been arrested on something “accepted at all ranks for decades.” He added: “Taking care of your family, taking care of your friends, taking care of those who support New York City police officers and law enforcement is not a crime. Period.”
An old favorite image will have to do until I can get someone to take a decent picture of me.
I think I’ve got my circle layout for my friends figured out:
1) Friends who will will help me dispose of a body
2) Friends who won’t call the police if they find me with a body
3) Friends who will call the police if they find me with a body
4) Friends who should be bodies
Oh, my new video’s on YouTube now. You should watch it a million times please. MC Frontalot – Critical Hit [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
I have a personal rule about cycling to work in the winter: only if it’s warmer than 35F. Got up this morning and checked the temperature… 36F.
Challenge accepted.
10 Amazing Google+ Ripples to Check Out #ripples
One of the coolest new features that launched today is called Ripples. With Ripples, you can see how posts are shared through Google+. You can even play back each Ripple, and Ripples are available on every public post. Here are some of my personal favorites from the last few weeks.
( Bonus: View the Ripples for this post)
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=G374YVBV3BY
Dalai Lama to Hangout with Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=JavTTDqMMUh
Ron Garan’s Beautiful Picture of the Moon
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=jV6hAEU2mhA
Sergey Brin on Remembering Steve Jobs
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=dwmWyNSoXTh
My announcement of the new GOOG +1 License Plate
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=gW3aRGBXe6K
Felicia Day on the Importance of RSS on websites
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=DsSLwxjojmj
will.i.am . there are billions of people on the planet
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=WVmdExLa2t1
Larry Page shares video of Web 2.0 Summit With Vic Gundotra and Sergey Brin
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=e29kUeoQuEJ
Mona Nomura on Superman getting #busted
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=AJskYAZBvSW
Pete Cashmore on Google Reader and Google+ Integration
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=F4eNAWBtvg3
Bill Gross on the US budget Scaled Down to a Household
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=3eM9RZSFLJ2
Ripples are not just cool, but a great way to find influencers across Google+ and see new people who care about the same things you do. So click in the upper right of any post, and select View Ripples.
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=gW3aRGBXe6K
A Pun Involving Travel 