this is an adventure

With a nod to those already calling it a “vicious time suck”, Empire Magazine has prepared a fascinating painting containing 50 hidden movie titles to celebrate their 20 year anniversary. We are unashamed to say we got to 46 without Googling. See if you can beat us.

“The Pakistani Army has just made its initial advance into the Taliban stronghold of Mingora, the main town in the insurgency-racked district of Swat.” Bill Roggio offers his thoughts on the continued assault, questioning whether the lighter-than-expected resistance is a sign of a tactical retreat by the five to seven thousand soldiers of the Taliban.

While those who wanted fully taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research rejoiced at Barack Obama’s election, “many proponents have concluded that the plan could have the opposite effect, putting off-limits for federal support much of the research underway, including work that the Bush administration endorsed.” Politics overruling science? Never.

For the past two years I’ve been working on the Google Earth Outreach team, aimed at helping non-profits and public benefit groups use Google Earth and Google Maps to further their cause. In that time I’ve worked on so many cool projects, from training indigenous communities in Brazil on the use of internet and mapping […]