Monthly Archives: October 2005

QotD

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference. —Marshall McLuhan

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Framestore CFC Press Release

noitulovE, a quick recap (in reverse) of the last few hundred million years of life; gorgeous animation (Quicktime). Cited in povray.off-topic by Gilles Tran.

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partial translation

I see that in Yahoo’s Chinese translation my name is “安東 Sherwood”, i.e. Anton becomes ‘peace+east’ (which in Japanese is pronounced antō, unfortunately).

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travelogue

Someone mounted a camera on the back seat of a convertible to shoot a compressed record of a trip from Los Angeles to New York.

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a day’s air traffic

I downloaded this two years ago but never watched it before: animation of US airline movements around the clock

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