Word-whore. I write 'em. I talk 'em. Information, politics, media, and the cybers. I drink. I use bad words. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris! Vive les poissons rouges sauvages!
Two views of the Earth which help put things in perspective — AlertMap and Breathing Earth.
AlertMap (and the original Hungarian version) shows the emergencies and disasters happening on earth right now in real time — everything in the last 24 hours including biological hazards, epidemics, earthquakes, tropical storms, tornados, hail, aviation accidents, active volcanoes and more. Click on each icon for a detailed description and map.
Searches for “steve irwin jokes” or variations currently represent 67% of all search-generated traffic to this website. But that still doesn’t match the overall traffic levels when drugs spiked my website. What does this say about human nature?
These three cleverly-designed clocks make the world look nicer… and the gods know we need that on a Monday morning!
You can watch the hot space action from STS-115 at www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/. Of course as I write this the astronauts are asleep for the next five hours, but they do have a camera pointing at the Earth, which is worth a look. And the commentator is doing such a sterling job she’d be at home on ABC Radio during a rained-out cricket match.
It looks like Vodafone gets the gig as network provider. I’m thinking Nokia might sell me an N80.
I’ve just spent a happy while creating a tag cloud — a diagram of the “tags” or keywords in this blog, arranged to show the most common. It tells me (and you!) more about what I’m writing about that I could write about myself. Plus it updates itself automatically.