Taken from WServerNews - links here change weekend-ish…
Amazing pictures from above. Click on Earth From Above. Terrible navigation on the site, but after a bit of poking around you can start to see a treasure trove of images — truly magnificent stuff captured from the air:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Earth-from-Above
Go to Prison in Germany? Well, check out this slide show. This looks even better than a modern high tech hotel:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-German-Prison
Rock Port, Missouri becomes the first U.S. town solely powered by wind energy. Four turbines supply electricity to its 1,300 residents, with enough power left over to feed to a nearby town:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Wind-Power
The spread of Walmart. I believe North Dakota comes in last place with only 8 or so of ‘em. Course it doesn’t show Alaska or Hawaii. Or Guam for that matter:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Walmart
New service tracks missing laptops for free. Researchers have developed a free open-source tracking system for laptops, called Adeona:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Adeona
Amazing 3D renderings of the inner workings of the body:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-3D-Body-Animations
Welcome to the “Periodic Table of Videos”. Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version will have a short video about each one.
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Periodic-Videos
Amazing 50’s film of police motorbike riders showing off their coordination skills in Rome, Italy:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Police-Motorbikes
The Beijing China 2008 Summer Olympics Song (with English subtitles) Seven minutes of PR, Chinese style. It’s about five minutes too long:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Olympic-Song
Saturn holds a secret, mysterious hexagon over the north pole. Even NASA can’t explain it:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Saturn-Polar-Hexagon
Complete Telephone Central Office (DCO) for sale on eBay for just one grand.
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-eBay-Central-Office
How many people can fit into a Smart Car? How about 15?
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Smart-Car
Now Japan has a water-powered car. Just water, nothing else. Getting kinda hard to hang on to oil, I would say. This one sounds too good to be true though. Video on Reuters:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Water-Powered-Car
One of our spacecraft made a video of the moon passing in front of Earth.
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-EPOXI-Transit
Steve Jobs speaks at Stanford University graduation with three stories of his life. Motto: “Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Steve-Jobs-Motto
How to get started in virtual-world operations. Sunbelt did most of this. Find us in Second Life and learn how to build at Sunbelt University:
http://www.wservernews.com/NTANB3/080721-Sunbelt-University
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