This map clearly illustrates the numbers and locations of nuclear explosions in the world. The amount of radiation and fallout released by these bombs are still with us today and in some cases are believed to be related to the numbers of cancers occurring worldwide.
When looking at the map, note the key and especially the phrase: The scale is not linear. If it was, the larger circles would cover most of the map.
Google today has released to me another few Google Wave Beta invites. As I know many people are still trying to acquire an invite, and my friends that are interested mainly already have them, I'm offering them up to people who visit my page. People I actually know of course get first dibs, but if you leave a comment on this post, I will send an invite as they are available. I got 12, and of those 8 are still unspoken for at the moment.
Please note, even if I do send an invite, Google claims there could be a delay of up to a few days before you receive it as it is a limited roll-0ut.
If you found this post using Twitter or a search engine, please also spend a few minutes looking at the rest of my posts. Who knows, you might see something else you like as well.
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
Your Monkey Called has created a new post listing some historical books and re-writing the title as if they had been written today. They take into account the changes in culture and marketing that many book titlists seem to love.
Examples:
Then: The Wealth of NationsNow: Invisible Hands: The Mysterious Market Forces That Control Our Lives and How to Profit from ThemThen: WaldenNow: Camping with Myself: Two Years in American TuscanyYour Monkey Called
Today I used WUBI to install the Ubuntu Linux onto my work machine. WUBI runs from INSIDE Windows itself, and easily installs the OS and includes a boot-menu that allows you to choose which OS you want to use. If you decide you don't like it, uninstall it like you would with any other Windows Program.
I decided to install it for the better performance, virus immunity (at least from Windows based viruses, which are 99% of them), and ability to more easily recover data from dying hard drives.
I also installed WINE which allows me to run some Windows programs from within Linux, so that I can have those must-have programs.
All-in-all so far, working very well.