GeoMapLookup — my web application to show the geographical location of an IP address using Google Maps — now provides a download link for .kml files to be used with your copy of Google Earth.
Zoom in on your commenting blog visitors with Commenter Spy the GeoMapLookup integrating WordPress plugin.
tags: Commenter Spy, geolocation, GeoMapLookup, Google Earth, [...]
This is a follow-up to my previous post Even Our Sun is Tiny but this time a video (via digg) shows you how small we really are and which monstrously large objects are “floating” around in our galaxy.
A size comparison1 of the Sun to VV Cephei A (the supergiant of the binary star system VV [...]
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date says NASA and provides us with very high quality pictures of our planet (up to blazing 21600*10800 pixels); also night shots are available.
If you hadn’t enough download an — also high quality — eight second video of the [...]
Pluto lost its status of being a planet after the definition of planet was changed by the International Astronomical Union. “Pluto was automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune’s” the BBC reports.
Now “the eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune,” said the IAU resolution which was passed in [...]
BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder posted an article entitled “If the liquid could be explosive, why are you dumping it in a crowd?“. CNN reports about today’s events in London and how any liquid is now considered as potentially dangerous.
So why on earth is security personnel dumping “possibly explosive liquids into a garbage can in a crowd [...]
A month ago I stumbled upon a site entitled The Size Of Our World. It has comparing images of our planet, the Sun and much larger stars like Betelgeuse and Antares (the largest two on those pictures). The brightest star of our nightly sky — Sirius — isn’t left out.
I find it quite impressive to [...]