FlashLadyBug.com

Watch this short video to find out.
It’s quite amazing how with only 20 cars driving around a circle, all supposed to be doing 30kph, a wave of backup slowly flows around the ring of cars.  Quite quickly the spacing between cars starts to change.  As some cars speed up, they create gaps.  Is the cars behind them speed up, other drivers speed up too.  Soon, a bunch of faster-moving cars catch up to slower moving cars.  Only when all the cars before the driver ahead of the slow pack move up does the driver leading the slow pack speed up.  Still confused?  Just watch the video.  Its only 30 seconds long, and shows what happens really clearly.
Still not an excuse for being late to work though. . . . .

http://www.maniacworld.com/shockwave-traffic-jam-test.html

Take a look at this very cool image of the Earth at night (thumbnail above)
http://incredimazing.com/page/Earth_at_Night-686

The different colors are different sources of light - red is wildfire, purple/yellow is city light, green is natural gas flares, and blue is fishing fleet lights.
The image cites NASA’s Visible Earth 2001 as the source of the map, and the Defense Meteorological Satelite Program as the source for the light data.

I know…a person who ships and buys so much stuff that he has accounts at the shippers ShipGooder is a nice little utility that people who ship alot ought to like very much. You type in the package start and destination points, and it tells you which shipper will be the least expensive. Nice little thing when you really dont have a preference. Although, i have a preference towards DHL…
Anyways, link: ShipGooder

“Kodak says its KAC-05020 Image Sensor is a 1.4 micron, 5-megapixel device that allows capture of high quality images in small cameras, with resolution that equals what is available from current devices using larger, 1.75 micron pixel CMOS designs.

Kodak said unlike other small-pixel sensors which can produce poor images, especially under low light conditions, the 1.4 micron pixel used in the KAC-05020 Image Sensor changes this convention, providing image quality that can equal or surpass what is available from current 1.75 micron-based  devices. . .”

“At 5 million pixels, the KAC-05020 offers high resolution in the popular 1/4″ optical format, and enables imagery up to ISO
3200 and support for full 720p video at 30 fps. The sensor is also
supported by the Texas Instruments’ Omap and Omap-DM packages,
supporting digital image stabilization, rapid auto-focus, red-eye
reduction, and facial recognition that promises digital camera-like
performance in a camera phone, Kodak claims.”

Read more about it here
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/24665

“After
years of twiddling their thumbs over the issue, ICANN has voted 13-0 to
begin the bureaucratic process of putting an end to “domain tasting,”
the slimy practice whereby speculators buy up millions of URLs but
avoid paying any fees because they renounce the names within a 5-day
grace period.

   How do they propose to accomplish this? Simple: Ditch the grace period.”

So, I guess the next time I got to register a domain, I should really uze spel cheek, shouldn’t I?
On a more serious note, I REALLY hope that this helps to kill some of those really crappy websites that are just pages and pages of ads and dead links.  They just annoy me, but I can at least be thankful that I’ve yet to have trouble with domain name availibility.

Read More (and quoted from) here :
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/24521

BBSpot.com’s
11 Ways Geeks Would Prepare for an Apocalyptic Asteroid Impact

11.     Start a “preparing for armageddon” blog.
10.     Calculate force at which asteroid will hit Earth and compare it to power of Vorlon planet killers.
9.     Wait patiently for Ford Prefect.
8.     Go crazy with the credit card at the Apple store.
7.     Start post-apocalyptic movie marathon and take notes.
6.     Encase yourself in carbonite for preservation.
5.     Point out that we should’ve listened to Hawking and gotten off the planet.
4.     Blame it on Microsoft.
3.     Buy one of those crank-powered laptops.
2.     Find location of impact on Google Maps.
1.     Start cranking out more SETI units in hopes of finding an alien civilization that can save Earth.

From
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/01/top-11-apocalyptic-asteroid-impact.html

Here’s a review of the new Tesla Roadster from AutoBlogGreen.com

It looks like they liked it pretty well all-around.

Read the review here
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/01/28/abg-first-drive-hitting-the-road-in-the-tesla-roadster/

“NEW YORK - The online advertising leader Google Inc.
said Friday it would help make it less lucrative to tie up millions of
Internet addresses using a loophole and keep those domain names from
legitimate individuals and businesses.

Google’s AdSense program would exclude those names so no one can
generate advertising revenue from claiming them temporarily, a practice
known as domain name tasting — the online equivalent of buying
expensive clothes on a charge card only to return them for a full
refund after wearing them to a party. . .”

“. . .Name tasting exploits a grace period originally designed to rectify
legitimate mistakes, such as registrants mistyping the domain name they
are about to buy. But with automation and a burgeoning online
advertising market, entrepreneurs have generated big bucks exploiting
the policy to test hoards of names, keeping just the ones that turn out
to generate the most revenue.

The practice ties up millions of domain names at any given time,
making it more difficult for legitimate individuals and businesses to
get a desirable name.”

Read more about it here :
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_hi_te/web_address_sampling

the trailer for a new movie.

Harry Potter and the Chronicles of the Lord of the Golden Compass of the Jedi.

http://io9.com/341233/when-adventure-becomes—-repetitive 

A *masterpiece* of a film, it is truly a unique piece of work.
Now, seriously…its a trailer made of combined footage from the above mentioned movies as well as Eragon, Beowulf, and Bridge of Teerabitha.
As io9 put it, this shows when adventure becomes….repetitive. However, to their credit, all of these movies were very well done movies.
Many people like all of these stories even if there are striking similarities between them.
Its the way that each story was written and the elements that are put into them that make each one unique. To be completely honest however, Tolkien may have started off the entire fantasy chain. However, as one commenter put it, Tolkein was a genius, Lewis was his evangelistic buddy, and most fantasy writing has been based off of these two. I’m surprised that Robert Jordan didn’t make it in, but then again, no movies have been made on his Wheel of Time series.
Overall, I guess what this trailer shows is that there seems to be a general idea that just attracts people to these books, but that doesn’t mean that each story is simply a copy of another.On a different note…the maker of this movie…really did have nerve to potentially annoy those movie companies
Thank you io9 and Anniemayhem