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Realtime quake map of Japan Paul Nicholls in Christchurch, New Zealand, has produced a continuously updating map showing the location and depth of the quakes which have struck Japan since the magnitude 9.0 quake on the 11th March 2011. Today (17th March), there were 34 quakes, including one measuring over 6.0 on the . . . → Read More: Map showing the quakes in Japan
Interesting facts about the Internet Not only Africa is large (see the previous post), the internet is too. If you have 3-4 minutes, take a look at the slide show above (click on the screenshot to start it). The first internet web browser to be created was Mosaic in 1993, which is . . . → Read More: The Internet is pretty big too… The Daily Telegraph points to thorium as a way out of the energy crisis. Dr Rubbia says a tonne of the silvery metal – named after the Norse god of thunder, who also gave us Thor’s day or Thursday – produces as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium, or 3,500,000 tonnes of . . . → Read More: Thorium could be the answer to the energy crisis Back in 2001 the US National Transportation Safety Board published a report on the survival rates in air crashes (PDF, 800 KB). They are much better than you might think: Nearly 96 percent of the occupants involved in a Part 121 aviation accident over the past 18 years survived the accident, and in over . . . → Read More: Maximizing the chance of surviving a plane crash … the thing moves with the speed and grace of an angry bee, while accompanied by the perfectly menacing whine of its little engine. Wow! (via Engaget) An interesting video by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety showing a crash test where a 1959 Chevrolet is crashed into a 2009 Chevy. It shows the massive advance in occupant-safety over 50 years. I would not want to be the driver in the older car. (via Boing Boing) . . . → Read More: How car safety has improved in 50 years This cool bike is an entry for the 2009 James Dyson Award design competition. There’s a neat video of the prototype in action on YouTube. The prototype can change it’s configuration while in motion! . . . → Read More: The Zweistil Bike I don’t find Phillip Hermes’ idea for beating the traffic jams of the future particularly attractive: …the Urban Mole is a capsule that travels through existing networks of underground pipes in order to transport packages as diverse as groceries, signed documents and any title that appears on Oprah’s Book Club. The Mole frees up . . . → Read More: Wired: Amazon will deliver books via the sewer I read Molly Wright Steenson’s blog girlwonder on an irregular basis – she has lived in Italy, India and several other places – which is pretty unusual for an American, and she’s interested in modern architecture, various aspects of using the web, and design. Which are all things she blogs about. She published . . . → Read More: A mechanical precursor to e-mail
So the next time we move, there is one “must”. We are going to have lights and blinds controlled by a home automation (HA) unit which can be programmed using a personal computer using either a USB interface, or better, via a WLAN connection. At least, I hope so. |
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