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The wonders of Google Maps and a lot of time...

Amid general praise for Steve McQueen's famed car chase in the 1968 movie Bullitt, there are jeers about the recurring green VW Beetle and the geographic hash it makes of San Francisco. You might be amused to see this side-by-side view of the Bullitt chase and a Google map that shows just how much they jump from one patch of the city to another. (Via Google Maps Mania.)

From CNET News

Rick Rolled at LAX

Made it through the security line, found our gate, snagged a seat ...

And sat down to the soothing sounds of Rick Astley. A parting gift from CA, I suppose.

So long, LAX, so long.
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Soda vs. Pop

Can you explain this phenomena?

space travel

send your name to the moon

Cool

Uncontacted Amazonian tribe "captured" on film. Story and pictures HERE.

Word of the Day: niskin

Niskin, n.
Oceanogr.

I. attrib.

1. Designating any of various types of seawater sampling bottle which can be opened by remote control from the surface and which are often used in conjunction with electronic probes for in situ measurement of water temperature, pressure, etc.; esp. in Niskin bottle.

1965 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 10 547 The differences in particulate carbonate values between surface bucket and surface Niskin bottle samples are more striking than the differences in organic carbon. 1968 [...].

II. absol.

2. A Niskin bottle.

1992 Jrnl. Plankton Res. 14 920 The correlation coefficient..was lower for the SIPS-Niskin comparison than for the SIPS-pump comparison. [...].