Yikes!
bioephemera | March 26, 2009
From Failblog.
(I dedicate this to Hungry Hyaena, who holds extremely nuanced views on the ethics of hunting, and would no doubt have an easier time if he embraced complete denial, like this poor person).
bioephemera | March 12, 2009You've probably heard about the man with the eyeball camera. Here's the most detailed (and sometimes graphic) video I've yet seen about documentary filmmaker Rob Spence (aka Eyeborg), who is working on getting his prosthetic eye replaced with a wireless eye socket camera:
I first encountered Spence in this writeup at Wired last fall. According to the new video, they've hit a few snags since then, but for some reason Spence is all over the news right now. And it's a safe bet he'll continue to be, if he becomes the first cyborg reporter with a bionic eyecamera!
More: a briefer AP video on…
bioephemera | March 4, 2009
This series of four photos captures the asteroid that came about 41,000 miles from us Monday - less than 2x the distance of the usual man-made satellite, and much closer than the Moon. What was even scarier than this near miss? No one in the mainstream media seemed to notice until last night. I hope *someone* was paying attention. . .
GIF: cycle of four photos taken of 2009 DD45 on February 27, 2009, over a 36-minute period, in Australia. Photos by Robert McNaught. Via National Geographic
Update: via the NYT Lede blog, an animation of 2009 DD25, our asteroid friend with no respect for…