Friday, April 30, 2010

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Lincoln Road - Miami Beach

(Note: I'm in New York, visiting with family. Will return later this week and post some photos)

Thursday, April 29, 2010

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Lincoln Road - Miami Beach

(Note: I'm in New York, visiting with family. Will return later this week and post some photos)

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Miami

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Miami

Monday, April 26, 2010

The making of SWA Florida

(YouTube link)

 

A beautiful time-lapse video.

Today in WTF

(From Cynical-C)

The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody

The BBC produced an hour long documentary about the song Bohemian Rhapsody in 2004. See all six segments of the show in one post.

 

(Via Miss Cellania)

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Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Miami

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Another Friggin National Prayer Day

Why don’t we get rid of this? It’s an unconstitutional endorsement of religion by government.

Why do people pray. It doesn’t work! Why doesn’t God heal amputees? Why doesn’t He cure cancer? I have two friends who died of melanoma. They were both too young to go. One left two little kids without a father.

Prayer is just superstition. If you still believe prayer works, watch this video.

 

(YouTube link)

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Tin toy from my wife's collection

Saturday, April 24, 2010

BBC Life – Plants – the most complex time-lapse shot ever done

David Attenborough describes amazing time-lapse photography. A 60-second sequence of plants growing that took two years to create.

YouTube link

 

Here’s the finished product, in HD 1080p.

YouTube link

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Tin toy from my wife's collection

Friday, April 23, 2010

Al Seckel: how our brains are mis-wired

A TED talk: Cognitive neuroscientist Al Seckel explores how eye tricks can reveal the way the brain processes visual information -- or fails to do so. Among his other accomplishments

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Tin toy from my wife's collection

Thursday, April 22, 2010

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Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Miami

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Volcanic Lightning, Eyjafjallajökull, and how it works

(click to see bigger image)

The Astronomy Picture of the Day for April 19th at NASA’s site, is an amazing shot by Marco Fulle from Stromboli Online. This is from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Southern Iceland (how do you pronounce that?)

Theoretical astrophysicist Ethan Siegel has a great post explaining how do you get lightning in a volcanic eruption, and how it is much more common than you may think.

Michael Shermer on strange beliefs

A TED talk from Michael Shermer, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic from February 2006.

Worth watching.

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Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Miami

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud

TED finally posted online James Randi’s presentation from February 2007. He talks about psychics, homeopaths and other charlatans and the reason why it is fraud, dangerous and the law should do something about it.

Worth watching.

TED link

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Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Miami

Monday, April 19, 2010

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Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Miami

Sunday, April 18, 2010

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Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Miami

Saturday, April 17, 2010

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Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Miami

Friday, April 16, 2010

Jon Stewart Calls Out Fox News for Anti-Muslim Nuclear Logo Propaganda

The people are certifiable. Jon gives it to them.

First time I saw the logo I knew it symbolized a hydrogen atom. So, I’m a nerd then. I am.

Octopus steals camera

(YouTube link)

Victor Huang was recording video underwater at Wahine Memorial near Wellington, New Zealand when something really strange happened.

while trying to get video of a wild octopus, it suddenly dashed towards me and rips my shiny new camera from out of my hands, then swims off, all while the camera is recording! he swam away very quickly like a naughty shoplifter. after a 5 minute chase, I placed my spear gun underneath him and he quickly and curiously grabbed hold of the gun as well, giving me enough time to reach in and grab the camera from out of his mouth. I didn’t feel threatened at all during the whole ordeal. he seemed to be fixated on the shiny metallic blue digital camera. the only confusing behavior was how he dashed off with it like a thief ha-ha. cheeky octopus.

(Via Neatorama)

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This is from a visit to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami, a place I haven't been to for a couple of years.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Ricky Jay – Card Control

Amazing to watch

YouTube link

 

(Via Cynical-C)

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Fairchild Tropical Gardens

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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Fairchild Tropical Gardens

Monday, April 12, 2010

"Are you smarter than a half-term governor?"

Tina Fey explains "The Sarah Palin Network" on last night's premier of SNL.

 

(Via TYWKIWDBI)

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Fairchild Tropical Gardens

Sunday, April 11, 2010

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Fairchild Tropical Gardens

Saturday, April 10, 2010

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Fairchild Tropical Gardens

Friday, April 09, 2010

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Fairchild Tropical Gardens

Thursday, April 08, 2010

Martian avalanche, as it happens!

Phil Plait, blogs about the newest HiRise image of an avalanche. As it happens. On Mars!

hirise_avalanche_april2010

(click to embiggen)

 

Read Phil’s article where he explains what you are seeing. Holy cow!

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Fairchild Tropical Gardens

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

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This week I visited Miami's excellent botanical gardens (Fairchild).

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

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South Pointe, Miami Beach

Monday, April 05, 2010

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Southern tip of Miami Beach

Sunday, April 04, 2010

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Miami Beach

Saturday, April 03, 2010

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At South Pointe Park, on the southern tip of Miami Beach

Friday, April 02, 2010

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Smith & Wollensky - South Pointe, Miami Beach

Thursday, April 01, 2010

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Japanese garden at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens