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lightpollutionmap.info

This is a nice map of light pollution. I'm thinking about summer camping trips and feeling lucky to live close to some holes in this map. I only get to see the night sky from one of these dark spots a few times each year and it's always awe-inspiring.

Recommended · Apr 24^th, 2021, 8:16 am

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What do we know about 'Oumuamua?

I’m on team space probe though I’m sympathetic to team hubcap. Looking at the path it carved through our solar system it just has to be a drive by.

Recommended · Nov 12^th, 2018, 9:03 am

Beyond The Beyond: Flipboard

Bruce Sterling on Flipboard. "I would counter that what this thing really massacres is weblogs. Flipbook makes weblogs look archaic, much more than it makes magazines look archaic."
Slate: Confessions of a used-book salesman.

I always wondered about those people at library book sales with scanners. Now I know. [via TYWKIWDBI]
swissmiss | Facebook Blocker

A browser extension that blocks all of those annoying 'Like on Facebook' buttons.
A Journey Round My Skull: Hidden Hinko

This work by a Slovenian painter in the early 20th century is eerily similar to our own century's Jim Woodring.
YouTube: Star Identification 1942 Vintage United States Navy Training Film

Learn the constellations the 1940's Navy way!
Gawker: Mexican Coke Might Not Actually Be Different from Regular Coke

I don't care what science says, Mexican Coke is better! (Glass bottles alone are better.)

Oct 29^th, 2010, 10:00 pm

CFMX Facebook Application Starter

looks like a good way to jump start a CF facebook app.
APOD: Jupiter over Ephesus

"...this moving skyscape features Jupiter above the southeastern horizon and the marbled streets of the ancient port city of Ephesus, located in modern day Turkey."

Jul 18^th, 2008, 5:30 pm

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