Here's a video displaying all commercial air traffic in the world during a 24 hour period. Seriously, I'm moving to New York City tomorrow and seeing the flight density in this computer simulation scares me a bit. Thankfully, it's a big planet with plenty of space to fly. But then, pilot friends tell me that sometimes they get close enough to wave at each other, so maybe it's not as big as to accomodate the 7.4 billion passengers that will travel by air in 2020. [Zhaw via Dark Roasted Blend]
Archive for September, 2008
24 Hour Air Traffic Around the World Blows Minds, Eyeballs [Airplanes]
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Sep
Jesus Diaz via Gizmodo
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Tetris Remade In LittleBigPlanet [Clips]
26
Sep
(author unknown) via Kotaku - AideRSS (Great)
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Whatever portion of brain matter we had left reserved to be blown by Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet has been officially blown. This impressive Tetris-like, which they're calling "Stacker" works, in a somewhat loose sense, as a capable, but clearly maddening, game within a game. To see the full contraption responsible for all this wonderment, make the jump.
See, the thing there activates the whatsit which is powered by a series of widgets and doohickeys to create the... it all makes sense once you read the owner's manual.
Inspiration In Motion [Media Molecule]
Google's Charity, At Your Expense – InformationWeek
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Sep
NewsOXY | Google's Charity, At Your Expense InformationWeek - 9 hours ago Google on Wednesday launched a contest to solicit ideas about how to help humanity. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but would-be contest participants should think carefully before acting selflessly. Google to provide US$10 M to come true the 5 most creative ideas eTaiwan News For 10th anniversary, Google crowdsources human betterment Ars Technica Computerworld - United Press International - NetworkWorld.com - FOXNews all 165 news articles |