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POPSGoogle Wave, Screenshot Tour and Video 
When someone updates a wave in your inbox, it turns bold and moves to the top of your inbox"just like email. If a contact of yours is online, a little green dot appears on his or her icon. All the modules are collapsible and dock themselves in the upper part of the screen. If you've collapsed your inbox and a new wave gets updated, it flashes green. Here I've clicked on new wave and minimized all the other modules to expand my workspace. You can add all sorts of rich content to your wave, like a YouTube video, Google Map, image, links, or anything that a gadget enables. (More on gadgets below.) Here I've added some colored text and embedded a video clip in my wave. When I finish typing and click the Done button on my wave, Wave pops up the "Add participants" module so I can share my wave with anyone on my contacts list. You can search for a contact by name, or just drag and drop anyone to the wave you choose. Once you've shared a wave, the magic starts to happen.
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POPSLakeland Mountain / Road Bike Race Tomorrow You know I love biking. And I heard about this race over a month ago. Finally, this morning I remembered to look up the information on the race. Thankfully I didn't miss it ... but it's happening tomorrow. I won't be racing, but I think I'll try and stop by the race to check out what it's like, maybe snag some video and pictures. Anyhow, that's cool. What's even cooler than that news is this sponsor for the event. Rather than explain it - I'll just show you the logo. For some reason, the image isn't coming up for me - so here it is if you want to check it out. http://SpeerClan.amplify.com/files/2009/08/as_creme_logo.jpg Pretty cool, right?
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POPSThe World's Most Impressive Subway Maps Click on each map detail to pop out a full-size version. For more on the underground, check out a slideshow of the world's 7 greatest subways. - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/07/the-7-coolest-subways-in-the-world.php
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POPSOur only, most beloved and beautiful Home. Speaking for myself, she is the sweetest, most precious treasure of my universe. I love her most dearly and wish for no other. Although, wouldn't mind doing the tourist thing around the solar system and, perhaps, the galaxy. Why not?
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POPSMost complete Earth map published Previously, the most complete such topographic map was Nasa's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, covering 80% of the Earth's surface. However, the mission's results were less accurate in steep terrain and in some deserts.
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POPSHow the Internet Works in Iran " But if the destination is not on the forbidden list, it's allowed to go through. Outside Iran, the proxy servers are like transit points. Activists set up proxy servers on their own computers, using Internet Protocol numbers that don't appear on the forbidden list. Traffic from Iran can go through to those addresses with no problem. The data traffic is then forwarded to wherever it's destined to go, even if that destination is supposedly forbidden. During the post-election crisis, proxy servers have been popping up like thousands of computerized "Casablanca" cafes around the world. The Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site based in Sweden, launched an anonymous Net-surfing forum to help Iran's opposition - but most of the proxy providers are amateurs."
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POPSA clear link between brain speed and intelligence. "The smarter the person, the faster information zips around the brain, a UCLA study finds. And this ability to think quickly apparently is inherited. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, looked at the brains and intelligence of 92 people. All the participants took standard IQ tests. Then the researchers studied their brains using a technique called diffusion tensor imaging, or DTI. "
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POPSarctic sea ice the-between pictures are at link- it went on to say that -cycles of natural variability such as arctic oscillation are known to play a role in arctic sea ice extent, but the sharp decline seen in this decade cannot be explained by natural variability alone. Natural variability and greenhouse gas emissions (and the resulting rise in global temperatures) likely worked together to melt greater amounts of arctic sea ice. Some models forecast and ice-free arctic for part of the year before the end of the 21st century
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POPSEarth's City Lights
This image of Earth’s city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth’s surface. The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated. (Compare western Europe with China and India.) Cities tend to grow along coastlines and transportation networks. Even without the underlying map, the outlines of many continents would still be visible. The United States interstate highway system appears as a lattice connecting the brighter dots of city centers. In Russia, the Trans-Siberian railroad is a thin line stretching from Moscow through the center of Asia to Vladivostok. The Nile River, from the Aswan Dam to the Mediterranean Sea, is another bright thread through an otherwise dark region. Even more than 100 years after the invention of the electri
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POPSGreat Wall of China waaay longer! Known to the Chinese as the "long Wall of 10,000 Li", the Great Wall is in fact a series of walls and earthen works begun in the 5th Century BC and first linked up under Qin Shi Huang in about 220BC. From satellite image: http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/asia/china/great-wall/map.html
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