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POPSInspire marked launch of the cultural olymiad in Weymouth, Dorset In this, the most surveilled country in the world, I decided to document the B-side festival by "surveiling" it using my camera and phone, along with anyone else s camera or phone who wanted to take part, and upload the images to the internet. Ideally all the images will show up on a map where they were taken but the current internet technology for this is slightly limiting. The B-side COMSURV installation consists of 4+ channels of digital content displayed on 8+ monitors, set up in an old style shop window http://comsurv.blogspot.com/
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POPSAnother Google First This camera can easily distinguish objects 16 inches long, with 11-bits per pixel color. It's orbit is one day so that the images are not blurred.
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POPSA satellite eye on the Earth last 2 pictures: a) Kasatochi volcano, Aleutian Islands, August 8: Dormant for 200 years this small volcano in the Pacific erupted without warning on August 7. The volcano’s plume is seen here as a brown streak in the cloud b) Phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea, Norway, August 12 2008. Phytoplankton are tiny plant-like organisms that are the foundation of the ocean food web. Like plants, they contain chlorophyll that they use to harvest sunlight for photosynthesis. In northern waters, these organisms are starved for sunlight much of the year, but during the summer months, they explode in colourful blooms such as this one
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POPS"Armchair Archaeology" with Google Earth “Google Earth gives you free access to imagery that would otherwise cost a fortune, and require specialist training to make use of,” says Dr Ur. And being able to pan and zoom the satellite images quickly makes it much easier to spot archaeological features and relate them to each other.
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POPSGeorgia breaks ties with Russia Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said Moscow regretted Tbilisi's decision. "The possible end of diplomatic relations with Georgia is not the choice of Moscow, and Tbilisi will have to bear the entire responsibility," the state-controlled Tass news agency reported him as saying.
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POPSThe feng shui of cows :) "What the benefit could be for cows, however, remains a mystery. Experts acknowledged that the research almost certain- ly has no practical applications." Cool though ;-)
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POPSCows and Their Internal Compass Unlike some city folks who have no clue as to north and south, cows and deer may have a built-in compass. A new study and observation reveals that not only birds and butterfly's but also large mammals may have a compass.
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POPSThis Will Blow You Away! I have just seen the clip on the site (only just over a minute long) on the BBC news. Please do have a look, it/s stunning.
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POPSEarth as Art Gallery I have only one thing to say about this site: AWESOME! Not in the surfer use either. Truly, an experience leaving you catching your breath.
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POPSGolfzilla -- Play Golf in Google Maps Playing online simulated golf on the world most renown golf courses. This will be possible with Golfzilla, a mashup of Google Map’s Satellite images and a Golf game, developed for the Android powered smartphones which are expected to become available by the end of this year. on smartphones, powered by Google Android
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POPSAntarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming
'The latest images, taken by Envisat's radar, say fractures have now opened up in this bridge and adjacent areas of the plate are disintegrating, creating large icebergs. The Antarctic peninsula -- the tongue of land that juts northward from the white continent towards South America -- has had one of the highest rates of warming anywhere in the world in recent decades. But this latest stage of the breakup occurred during the Southern Hemisphere's winter, when atmospheric temperatures are at their lowest. One idea is that warmer water from the Southern Ocean is reaching the underside of the ice shelf and thinning it rapidly from underneath. "Wilkins Ice Shelf is the most recent in a long, and growing, list of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula that are responding to the rapid warming that has occurred in this area over the last fifty years," researcher David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said. "Current events are showing that we were being too conservati
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