Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth

I found this interesting enough to share with NP. Nothing more to add yet.""There's a persistent Web meme to the effect that Google obscures sensitive or top-secret locations in Google Maps and Google Earth at the insistence of national governments. A July IT Security article...

Human Breast Milk Cheese Made in France

"Human Breast Milk Cheese Made in France Oftentimes you come to the logical realization that life is stranger than fiction, even stranger than the fiction from your most oddball, esoteric films.This farm is so strange that I have to believe it really exists - though, my...

Hair prayer ad judged 'offensive'

A surprising decision for the UK."A TV advert for hair stylers featuring eroticised female imagery and an extract from the Lord's Prayer has been deemed offensive to Christians. The Advertising Standards Authority said the ad for ghd IV hair styling equipment could cause...

Lighting 102: Unit 1.1 - Position (Angle)

"Summary: Lighting angle reveals form in a three-dimensional object. To see how light from a particular angle will affect your subject, view the subject from the position of the light. _______________________ We live in a world of off-axis light. The sun does not stay right...

LA Art Blog

"imagery to convey the basic building blocks of a living seething mass, the basic materials that structure the body of any living thing and that animate it. In the end, my best fruit were tendrils which were colorful strands of "metamaterial" that emerge from orbs, spherical...

Update on Jim Gray disappearance. Help still needed

Jim Gray took his sail boat and left alone to spread his mother remains in the San Francisco Bay Area a few days ago. He has not been seen or heard ever since. The Coast Guard started a search and came out empty handed, had to give up. Then a few friends and colleagues of...

Unauthorized Migrants -- Numbers and Characteristics

Pew Hispanic Center  [report in PDF]