Category: Stuff
Anything else that is just stuff.
Damn Nature, you scary!
Asteroid will pass by earth today. Here is the Point of View of the asteroid. It will come closer to earth than many satellites. It gets within 3 earth radii. That’s about 18,300 km. With the earth travelling at 30km/seconds, that means it misses us by 610 seconds. Or around …
Storm by Tim Minchin (with text)
I choked on my coffee this morning listening to this. Every time I go to get tattoo’d there is a girl getting a tramp stamp and fairies are an on-running joke.
People may have lost their homes…
From CBC’s live blog: Disaster in Japan The man standing beside the photos is Yosuke Oda, who lost a friend in the disaster, as well as his house. He has decided to collect photographs from the rubble and put them together on a sidewalk so that people who recognize themselves …
Behind every successful man…
One night President Obama and his wife Michelle decided to do something out of routine and go for a casual dinner at a restaurant that wasn’t too luxurious. When they were seated, the owner of the restaurant asked the President’s Secret Service if he could please speak to the First …
Racial Segregation
I just came across some fascinating maps on Business Insider Detroit: Everyone is black in the city, and everyone is white in the suburbs Note: Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, and Orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people. Image: Eric Fischer on flickr