Christine Alvarado and Randall Davis of MIT created this "ASSIST" computer that understands human sketches and "translates" it to its natural conclusion! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | MIT ASSIST website – via arbroath
A white moose was sighted in the forest of Østfold, Norway. Naturally, some Norwegians want to shoot it:
"It is surely entertaining to have an albino moose wandering in the woods but in purely breeding terms it is not right to let it live," Morten Brommdal, manager of the animal section at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Oslo told Moss Avis.
"That so many people want the white moose to live is an emotional issue. It is exciting to have such a rarity rustling around. But if it is spared we risk the moose’s breeding qualities spreading. Soon we might two, three, four or five albino moose in these wooded areas, something which in the long run can weaken the herd," said Brommdal, who pointed out that an albino moose is really a kind of ‘mistake’.
Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans…the list goes on.
Now see the history of powers that controlled the Middle East over the past 5000 years in 90 seconds: Link [Flash] – via Geek Press
Volkswagen UK is offering a set of arty vinyl stickers that Beetle owners can put on their car for £200. Too bad they can’t make custom stickers. Link – via Guerilla Innovation
Shuto of 3yen discovered this strange "blue shamrock" car sticker on a car in a parking lot in Japan:
Could this “Blue Shamrock” car sticker mean the Japanese driver is handicapped by too much Irish whiskey?
Well today I stumbled across this only-in-Japan factoid…
In June of 2002, Japan adopted the shamrock symbol to designate of handicapped parking. The Japanese logic was the international symbol of a wheelchair did not encompass all forms of disability (heart conditions, stroke, being Irish, etc).
This weird cylindrical polyethylene tank is kind of like a home that you roll (or paddle, it’s seaworthy!) wherever you go (like a human hermit crab or something): Link – via No Puedo Creer
This historic all-sky map is based on the first two years of data from NASA’s COsmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, launched in November of 1989. The map shows minute temperature variations (red is hotter) imprinted on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation by structures in the early Universe. These detailed measurements of the CMB and other COBE results ushered in an age of precision cosmology, and exactly confirmed the predictions of the Big Bang theory. Playing leading roles in the COBE project, for their resulting discoveries John C. Mather (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center), and George F. Smoot (UC Berkeley) were selected to receive the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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