For a start, it’s Star Trek in Turkish. And the SFX are really, really… choice. Listen up for the Pink Floyd sample. It’s ten minutes of your life you’ll never get back.
Animals on the Underground
Is this fantastic art or nothing more than a complicated version of colouring in? Animals on the Underground builds on a silly idea financed by plenty of merchandise — t-shirs, coffee cups, mouse mats and underwear. Thanks to information aesthetics for the pointer.
US Cryptographers: “FrpX-K5jE-Oc4n-e5Dn”
From that fine journal, The Onion, a warning:
WASHINGTON, DC—In a carefully phrased, 128-bit encoded announcement that has challenged US security agency procedures, top officials of the National Cryptography and Information Security Council warned that “FrpX-K5jE-Oc4n-e5Dn” if “Ha4d-87gH-uiH3-gB5r-g8Bh” late Monday.
How rich are you, really?
The Global Rich List puts your personal wealth in perspective. Compare your income not just with Bill Gates and Ingvar Kamprad, but everyone else on the planet. You’ll be surprised…
Victoria Crater, Mars
This small image doesn’t do justice. Go to NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day site for the full 3354-pixel wide version and spend a few quiet moments gazing at the breathtaking beauty of another planet.
This is the stadium-sized Victoria Crater, which the rover Opportunity reached a couple of weeks ago.
One billion Internet users (plus 150 million)
Somehow the news slipped by without us noticing, but some time in 1995 the one-billionth Internet user went online. There’s no central register of Internet users, so we don’t know who it was, or when they first logged on. But statistically, it was probably a 24-year-old woman in Shanghai.
In the time since then, the number has grown another 150 million or so, ball park. 36% of Internet users are now in Asia and 24% are in Europe. Only 23% of users are in North America, where it all started in 1969 when two computers — one in Los Angeles, the other in Palo Alto — were networked together.