It’s Sundog!: Mililani Smythe says: “My dog has a map of the world on her nose. Sort of.” Frank Jacobs @ Strange Maps adds: “But of course: there’s the American continent, right in the middle.”
What if we’re just specks on an alien dog’s universe-shaped nose spots? Whoa.
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So This Happened of the Day: Brace yourselves: SNL just divided by zero.
Also: “C’mon! I invented poking!”
[@ditzkoff.]
UPDATE: Now with video:
Graffiti of the Day: Spotted on the Kasr Al Nile Bridge in Cairo by Syrian journalist Ahmed Ramadan.
Mubarak = Final Boss of Egypt.
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BFG of the Day: Brazil-based firearms manufacturer Taurus recently took its double-chambered revolver line (capable of firing both pistol cartridges and shotgun shells), the “Taurus Judge” — so named because it is supposedly a favorite of judges in Miami’s high-crime areas — to cartoonish levels, when it introduced “The Raging Judge”: A handgun chambered for an unf**kwithable 28 gauge (55 caliber) shotshells.
The Firearm Blog claims Taurus canceled further production of the 28-gauge Raging Judge after the ATF stepped in and designated the weapon a Short Barreled Shotgun (making it illegal to own without a special permit). Guns America says this is untrue, but has yet to receive confirmation.
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Fun With Perspective of the Day: Brad Goodspeed uses After Effects to imagine what our night sky might look like if other solar bodies occupied the space currently reserved for the moon.
So the basic idea is, each planet you see is the size it would appear in the sky if it shared an orbit with the moon, 380,000 kms from earth. I created this video in After Effects, and because of certain technical considerations had to keep the field of view at 62 degrees. That means the foreground element is not precisely to scale. I realized this after the fact and may update the video at some point in the future. All planets are to correct scale with one another in any case.
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Words To Live By of the Day: Courtesy of “Tut-Ankh-Anon.”
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See Also: Wired How-To: Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet.
Live Reports: BBC; NYT; Reuters; CNN; Al Jazeera; Mother Jones.
UPDATE 2: Reuters: Protest death toll tops 100. Senior police officer killed in prison break, 700 prisons escape (Al Arabiya says 5000). AJE: Mubarak-affiliated businessmen flee to Dubai in private planes. Vodafone restores voice services, releases statement; China blocks the word “Egypt” from popular microblogging service; NPR: A Primer On Following Egyptian Protests On Twitter; 3 ways to help Egypt get online. Analysis: Why Egypt Matters: The Implications Of The Protests.
[photo: reddit.]
