Tag: images

Reactionary Change

“Nothing has been so direct as the Netanyahu Web site, though we have seen others with shades of it”. When a campaign is successful, “people are going to knock things off, both in terms of functionality and aesthetic.” Websites aside, for liberals in both countries, the idea of Mr. Netanyahu as the Obama candidate of Israel seems mystifying. Of the 3 main contenders for prime minister in February’s election, including Tzipi Livni of Kadima and Ehud Barak of Labor, Mr. Netanyahu is the most hawkish and the least interested in the focus on dialogue with adversaries that Mr. Obama made a centerpiece of his foreign policy platform.

Wherein “change” is co-opted by the ultra reactionaries

Micro world

A team of University of Michigan researchers has recently created a set of electron microscope images of carbon nanotube structures depicting images of US President-elect Barack Obama. John Hart, leader of the research team says it wasn’t a political statement, but an attempt to draw attention to what is possible these days with nanotechnology, and imaging at the very small scale. I’ll take him up on this invitation and share with you some other images of very tiny things in our world. For visualizing the scale, most measurements below are in microns – one micron is a millionth of a meter – human hair is approximately 100 microns thick. Rime on a columnar snow crystal. Contact between the snow crystal and the supercooled droplets in the air resulted in freezing of the liquid droplets onto the surface of the crystal. Observations of snow crystals clearly show cloud droplets measuring up to 50 microns on the surface of the crystal.

how does alan do it?

Google Maps NYC Ad

Google has stepped up as the next concern to wrap a train, wrapping 3 exterior cars with an advertisement for Google Maps, slightly less understated then the History Channel’s ad, if such a thing could be, as Google has only wrapped the exterior of the train, leaving the interior with the more traditional ads we are used to seeing in the square displays or banners up top.

looks nice