Undersea Cablemaps

Two sites for submarine cable maps:
From Telegeography: Submaprine Cable Map
Flash based map from Tata, doesn't look like as complete as the above, but also includes terrestrial locations

Cartoon Characters with a Middle Initial 'J'

In an apparent long running tribute to Jay Ward, master of such cartoons as The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Dudley Do-Right, many cartoon characters have the middle initial 'J.'  Below is a list:

Rocket J Squirrel
Bullwinkle J Moose
Phineas J. Whoopee
Michigan J Frog
Elmer J Fudd
Bartholomew J Simpson
Homer J Simpson
Philip J Fry
Professor Hubert J Farnsworth

Use a Firefox plugin to appear to be somewhere else

Firefox plugin to obfuscate your IP in logs

Cool optical illusion

Enjoy!

A map of logical fallicies

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/taxonomy.html

Corporate control - how sad

Popular TV show Mythbusters had planned on doing a show dedicated to RFID.  In fact, at some point, Kari Byron had an RFID capsule implanted in her arm to test how it would act during an MRI scan.
The team had planned on doing additional work on RFIDs to test the reliability, trackability, and hackability.  Unfortunately, major credit card companies decided it was best to suppress such investigation.

Stirling Engine to the rescue

Because NASA is running out of Plutonium-238, a new method of power generation must be found.  Enter a 200-year old design: the Stirling Engine.  With this design, engineers are about to increase efficiency of this dwindling fuel.  Granted it isn't exactly like the one pictured below, it's still cool to see this type of design being used

Performance Curve Database

Need data showing how the performance of something has changed over time?  Head over to the the Santa Fe Institute's Perforance Curve Database site that has graphs and data describing such things as the historical performance of photovoltaic cells (think efficiency,  cost per watt, etc).
Below is the graph of Hard Drive storage over time