Rowan Tree and Red Thread

(lifted from Warren Ellis)

I love my tribe, particularly the Canadian contingent. A gang of Edmonton amateur radio and space enthusiasts launched a balloon-borne camera, known as BEAR-4 (Balloon Experiments with Amateur Radio), which reached over 100,000 feet.



As seen at Geek.com and the BEAR home page.

These fellows know their ping-pong balls. Not sure if they'll ever pass their exams, though.

(courtesy of wwhyte via Facebook)

I thought this was beautiful.



(thanks to irishkate for the link.)

Especially for alaimacerc.



(found at Kevin Kelly.org)

(lifted from someone on Twitter, probably Allan Varney).

Did You Know? from Amybeth on Vimeo.

and important to remember: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.



(thanks to Boing Boing for the link)

From Boing Boing a brilliant and thought-provoking video of Hans Rosling talking about world health, wealth and the power of visualising statistics.

Yoinked from viktor_haag, the meme of the moment.

search for your birth-year on YouTube; post a music video.

I was born in 1969, baby!

(and refrain from posting much cooler stuff by Miles Davis, the Stones and Janis Joplin. Gershon Kingsley is more my (corny) idiom. I'll also cop to Space Oddity, though.)