As a Michigan resident, this is cool.
The Greatest Lakes Water System
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Venice… from Space!
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Here’s a cool picture of Venice from space. The colors are amazing. Check out the NASA website for the high resolution version.
Languages of the US Presidents
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Brought to us by Wikipedia, check out the second or third languages of the US Presidents.
Friesland Flag
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Friesland is a northern province of the Netherlands. Here is the Friesland flag — which might be my new favorite flag of the world. They also have their own distinct language from the rest of the Netherlands, Frisian, and here is Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah being sung in it.
Laughing Kremlin
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Ya ne znayu, gde etot klip ot potomu, chto oni russkuyu rech’. V samom dele, ya pytalsya issledovanii’ v Internete i prishli ni s chem. Vo vsyakom sluchae, pol’zovat’sya nekotorymi iz luchshih yumor vo vseh byvshih sovet·skih gosudarstva. V sleduyushchii’ raz! – Naimenyee lyubimyi’ syn Materi Rossii, Pavel Chekov.
Straight to China? I’m afraid not
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Find out what’s on the exact opposite of side of the world at Antipodes Map. Yep, some 12,742km directly beneath you, something is upside down, and it’s not even weird. Really, it could be anything! (But if you live in the North Hemisphere, or anywhere, really, it’s probably water.)
Snow Jesus
Sunday, January 17th, 2010Antarctica is the most awesome continent besides Japan. It’s got the South Pole, crazy sun cycles, all that snow, McMurdo Station, anti-Santa and this place — Trinity Church, built by the Russians in 2004.
Chasing waterfalls
Friday, January 15th, 2010At more than twice the height of Niagara Falls, Victoria Falls are in the heart of Africa. At the very literal edge of Victoria Falls is Devil’s Pool. Devil’s Pool is a so-called “safe” and naturally formed “swimming pool” completely open to tourist who wish to swim at the teeter edge of the falls.
A video.
Sky images
Monday, January 4th, 2010Flying back to Detroit from San Francisco a few years back, I took tons of pictures out the tiny airplane window with a digital camera. Most of them turned out mediocre, but some were pretty neat looking. Take a look, and click for big versions.
