NYC Live Traffic Cams, Yahoo Local, Weather & Traffic News, Flickr and A9 Blockview Photos.
Click [icon] for traffic cam. Click [icon] for traffic news.
Click on any street and there may be a photo (not live).
If you’re from Long Island, this could be useful. If you’re from Iowa, it’s just fun.
Computer power on paper! FLY Pentop Computer’s power comes from an optical scanner that sees everything you scan and write on special dot-matrix FLY paper. It’s got a brain (a built-in computer processor) and it’s got a voice.
This baby looks FUN!
Looking for a quick and easy way to apply special effects to your images?
Image Embellisher makes it easier to create special effects with a few clicks.
What do you get if you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia?
Factbites – a new way to search the web.
Other search engines spew out meaningless site-names and mangled phrases.
Factbites offers you real, meaningful sentences that are right on topic.
KartOO is a free metasearch engine, which presents its results in the form of an interactive map, exactly like a roadmap on which the cities are replaced by Websites and the roads by thematics. KartOO was elected the best search tool by the review “Computer Shopper Magazine”.
Brought to you by KartOO S.A. Worldwide leader in Cartographic visualisation.
Creators of UJIKO, and other fine products.
I like it. Thanks, Jeff.
A free and powerful flight tracker that will change how you think about flight status, tracking, and analysis.
This is kind of fun. It gives you an idea of what’s going on up there.
Every day the Earth is bombarded by debris from space, but the vast majority of objects entering the atmosphere are tiny, and burn up long before they reach the ground. However, larger bodies will penetrate deeper into the atmosphere, and can detonate with tremendous explosive force. The object that devastated 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest in 1908 was only 60-meters in diameter, and exploded with a force of 12.5 megatons of TNT, a thousand times the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The resulting damage template almost fits inside the M25 motorway around London.
If one ever hits you, then you’ll get your picture on the cover of the Tumbling Stone.
Every year in late October and early November, ~ Earth passes through a river of space dust associated with Comet Encke. Tiny grains hit our atmosphere at 65,000 mph. At that speed, even a tiny smidgen of dust makes a vivid streak of light–a meteor–when it disintegrates. Because these meteors shoot out of the constellation Taurus, they’re called Taurids.
“We came up with this model of a swarm within the Taurid stream to explain enhanced numbers of bright Taurid meteors being observed in particular years.” They listed “swarm years” in a 1993 paper in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society and predicted an encounter in 2005. It seems to be happening.
You might see a fireball flitting across the sky any time Taurus is above the horizon. At this time of year, the Bull rises in the east at sunset. The odds of seeing a bright meteor improve as the constellation climbs higher. By midnight, Taurus is nearly overhead, so that is a particularly good time.
According to the International Meteor Organization, the Taurid shower peaks between Nov. 5th and Nov. 12th ~. “Earth takes a week or two to traverse the swarm,”~. “This comparatively long duration means you don’t get spectacular outbursts like a Leonid meteor storm.” It’s more of a slow drizzle–“maybe one every few hours”~.
A drizzle of fireballs, however, is nothing to sneeze at. So keep an eye on the sky this month for Taurids.
Does it feel safe to blast through a debris cloud while screaming around the Sun at 18.55 miles per second?
Maybe we should slow down a little bit.
With this software you can investigate how a jet (or turbine) engine produces thrust by interactively changing the values of different engine parameters.
What is propulsion? The word is derived from two Latin words: pro meaning before or forwards and pellere meaning to drive. Propulsion means to push forward or drive an object forward
This is awesome. I love realistic simulators.
Exploration Systems and other sites.
Fun with neon.
