Monthly Archives: July 2010

Thank You, Stephen Schneider

Posted on 2010/07/21 by Sam

Sad news yesterday. Stephen Schneider, a leading climatologist from Stanford University, passed away at age 65, apparently of a heart attack. He was on an airplane, flying from Sweden to London on his way back from a scientific meeting. I … Continue reading →

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The Lighter Side of Black

Posted on 2010/07/15 by Sam

Well, it looks like BP has maybe-possibly-if-nothing-else-goes-wrong-at-least-for-now managed to stanch the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, using a tighter-fitting containment cap. And I just stumbled across this video, which I, somehow, had missed before now. BP deals … Continue reading →

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Grain, Extent, and 8-bit Cities

Posted on 2010/07/10 by Sam

A friend sent me a link to this cool website a couple of days ago: a guy named Brett Camper has coded it up to show zoomable maps of several major cities, pixellated à la old video game world maps. … Continue reading →

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Our Hold on the Planet

Posted on 2010/07/03 by Sam

We asked for rain. It didn’t flash and roar.
 It didn’t lose its temper at our demand
 And blow a gale. It didn’t misunderstand 
And give us more than our spokesman bargained for;
 And just because we owned to a … Continue reading →

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