History

Cool Map UI	Ugh, here's a chart
Really?! from Russia	Not the race for me
Free Web App version of yet to be MS Photosynth	and things that make you go hmmm...

I stumbled across this article today. I love history written this way; spanning ages and cultures. Real big picture stuff. So while I wait for a chance to visit Japan and the rest of Asia, (tall order - I know). I'll keep search the net.

This article in Nature is just fascinating. The short version: researchers in have concluded that sabers from Damascus, (modern Syria) have the same atomic structure as nanotubes, and could in fact be classified as nanotubes. The secret of how their were made was lost in the 18th Century, but it appears the carbon used in the annealing process created the them.

US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags
I keep scrolling back and forth, picking up different words of the moment. I love how the early ones use seemingly optimistic words like "colony" and "frontier" while the later are full of more fearful words. Sign of the times I guess.

Where are all archives going to live? and who will tend to them? preserve them?

Archiving books starts to look easy once you think about multimedia requirements.

But given today's Irrational Exuberance with IP - how they'll exist beyond the paywall is a perhaps the more pertinent questions.