This may look like just another regular picture of aircraft in the sky, but it’s actually taken from 50 miles above the jumbo jets from space!
http://space-pics.tumblr.com/
Wow.
Who Wants a Nice Tall Glass of Coca-Cola’s Algorithmic Orange Juice?
Coca-Cola won’t say how it makes its best-selling Simply Orange orange juice, but one thing is for sure: It’s not so simple. A new investigation by Bloomberg Businessweek shows that the Coke-owned orange juice brand that’s billed as less processed version of Tropicana is in fact a hyper-engineered and dauntingly industrial product. The factory in Florida where the bulk of Coke’s orange juice products are made sounds less like a bucolic grove where natural things grow than an oil refinery where natural things go to die. And yes, that includes the “Grove Made” variety.
Read more. [Image: Coca-Cola]
Seems like anything man made eventually proves to be bad for you.
Your Omnidirectional Camera
It’s a prototype but it’s nerd alert cool. Shoot with the camera and it sends the image over wifi to your phone where you can pinch, pan, twirl and explore.
The developers are waiting to see if there’s interest in it before trying to release it publicly.
I smell a very successful Kickstarter. — Michael
Now this is pretty cool. A way improved version over the panoramic ball from Germany.
We’re in for a long hot summer….
A Mesmerizing Time-Lapse of Stars Over the Eureka Valley Sand Dunes
“Armed only with boxed wine, firewood, and our DSLRs,” the filmmakers at Sunchaser Pictures trekked through Death Valley National Park to observe the Geminid meteor shower on December 13.
Incredible. Things start cooking at 1:15
(via theatlantic)
NASA photo of lake-effect clouds over michigan
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Now, that is cool!
This is amazing: WSJ story on a new company that wants to catch and drag asteroids back to Earth’s orbit for harvesting. http://on.wsj.com/WN5wTe
Making connections: inside one of Google’s data centres, the Dalles, Oregon.
With Knowledge Graph, Google plans to radically transform the way we search the internet… again. But some voice qualms about the company’s ambitions…
Photograph: Google/Rex Features
7 Social Media Trends for Consumers New Research | Social Media Examiner Here are seven key findings from that report. #1: More Time Invested in Mobile The survey found that consumers are increasingly looking to their smartphones and tablets to access social media. While the PC is still the most widely used device when it comes to social media consumption, the study found that time spent on mobile apps and mobile websites accounted for a 63% increase (compared to 2011) in total time spent. Additionally, 43% of users said they use smartphones to access social media, while 16% connect using a tablet.
Terrified family clings to dock for hours as wildfire rip through town and destroys their home
As a wildfire destroyed their Tasmanian home, Tim and Tammy Holmes gathered their five grandchildren and headed for the only place they thought would be safe: the area beneath a wooden jetty, where the frightened family stayed for over two hours.
The family clung to the jetty and to each other as the fire tore through the town of Dunalley, about 56 km east of the state capital of Hobart, Australia, until they found a small boat and made their way out of the fire zone. (Tim Holmes, Holmes Family/Associated Press)
(via npr)
Space station skipper beams down beautiful views
(Photo: Chris Hadfield via Twitter)
Astronaut Chris Hadfield has made a name for himself as the International Space Station’s first Canadian commander, the“Singing Spaceman” and Star Trek skipper William Shatner’s Twitter buddy — but he’s also one heck of a photographer.
(via nbcnews)
