Wired: "San Franciscans may have noticed an odd, camera-laden car driving through city streets taking photos of everything, but this time, it wasn’t Google. The car belongs instead to earthmine, whose cameras capture more data than Google’s do, using a higher-resolution, stereo photography technique that assigns specific points in space to every captured surface."

The fact that this product exists hints at an incredibly dangerous and stupid sport. I'd love to try.

On the back of a set of steak knives I bought from K-Mart.

Melbourne residents are noticing something between graffiti and Lego popping up in their neighbourhoods. Sculptures created of brightly painted milk crates have been spotted in various locations and feature "Crate Man" in numerous activities including showing off his large Crate-Man-Member.

Apparently dead salmon can think-- according to the results of some MRI brain scanning research done at Dartmouth. This reminds me of Bob's earlier post about the decrease of the placebo effect; when placebos were introduced into pharmacological trials, it was a huge wakeup call for everybody developing medicines at the time as it was shown that they weren't as effective as people thought. These researchers have now challenged the validity of current analysis techniques of MRIs by publicising some ridiculous results.

What pierces its skin with bone spikes and has quick-healing abilities?

Imagine Google Maps pointed up-- French photographers have stitched together thousands of long exposure photographs of the milky way and have provided a web interface to zoom and pan. Next feature: spaceship flying directions!

Since when do you want to make things look smaller? Italian photographer Barbieri has created landscape photographs of real landmarks that appear to be miniatures. Using tilt-shift techniques and artificial depth of field, his aerial photographs strangely have the appearance of your weird uncle's model train landscapes.

Roots are forming well and I have decided to hook up the onion to constant aeration with a pump.

An awesome model of the U.S.S. Enterprise incorporating recycled materials and the ability to autonomously move itself. The second article in Mystery Pig's "The Next Generation" column.

"According to researchers at Manchester University, music fans are stimulating part of the inner ear known as the sacculus, which responds to the beat in music. This gives the brain pleasure and makes us feel good - during the music and afterwards.

The sacculus, which is not thought to have any hearing function in humans, appears to be sensitive only to very loud volumes, above 90 decibels."

"Even though Apple suggests Mac users without Leopard buy the $229 Mac box set to get Snow Leopard, anyone can purchase the $39 Snow Leopard disc and install Snow Leopard in its entirety without having already installed Leopard."

This event is ridiculous, but the game sequel looks very cool. Can't wait, as I am a fan of the original Starcraft.

"This news comes straight out of Blizzard’s voice actors panel at BlizzCon. Blizzard has revealed that Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer will be playing Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, in StarCraft II."

A spatial anomaly is encountered by the Enterprise and alters the mind of Captain Picard.

Australians really like their beer.

Check out this Russian programmer's progress into his 3d engine for Flash.

A Youtube group that publishes full video lecture sets from the Indian Institute of Technology. Some cool stuff inside!

Oi! Some pictures from my trip to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Somehow I got into a "Lion vs. ???" mood on youtube, late last night.

Scientists capture an already large humboldt squid in hopes it will lead them to an even larger squid. Incredibly, it works.

"Researchers often use Photoshop to clean up the images they produce in the laboratory. If the experiment didn't go quite right, a bit of tampering can make a gel look like things did work."

I found this product on a site that makes fun of stupid one-purpose products. However, I find this product incredibly cool.

A one week follow-up on my switch from Firefox to Camino, the mac-optimized mozilla browser.

I'm installing this tonight and trying it out, I am personally a firefox user. Review inside article.

Apple's new ultra-thin notebook. The high-end model comes with a 64gb solid state drive-- an almost unheard of size for an SSD.