Just In Time For the Transit Strike
An interactive New York map (that doesn't even cover my nabe, grrr). Cool though.
Wes Phillips
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San Bartolo Video
If you're at all interested in archeology, you've probably read about the San Bartolo Mayan mural, which dates back to about 100 B.C.—about 700 years earlier than the Bonanpak murals, previously considered the oldest yet discovered.
News From the Edge of the Solar System
Meet 2004 XR190—but everybody calls her "Buffy."
My Secret Vice
I haunt Post Secret.
Stereo Means "Solid"
Turn your computer monitor into a really high-tech snow globe.
I Know There's a Superman Around Here Somewhere
You can't make this stuff up.
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
Ex-physics teacher John Atkinson pays his kids $1 for each example of bad science they spot in the movies they see. For The Day After Tomorrow, IIRC, he instituted a $50 cap.
Project Pandora
"Can you help me find more music I'll like?"
Time's A Wastin'
Yup, this is a colossal waste of time.
The '40s In Color
The Library of Congress has posted Bound for Glory: America in Color, an online exhibition of color images taken by the Farm Security Administration from 1935–1944. Amazing stuff.