Day: November 10, 2004
Online Scale Model of the Solar System
This is a cool model of the solar system using a scrolling webpage to show the distances between the sun and the planets. Luckily, you can jump from planet to planet instead of scrolling all the way down.
Try scrolling through the space between planets using your keyboard’s arrow keys and the ‘Page up’ and ‘Page down’ buttons, and keep an eye on the scrollbar to see where you are in the solar system. Just click on the link below to open the model in a new window, and close the window when you have finished to get back here. One word of warning though, the solar system is so huge you may find it difficult to find the planets at all amongst all the blank space! (I have provided links between neighbouring planets to make the journey easier).
Mini Kiss
Terror Alert T-shirts
(via Idle Type)
Survival Guide to Homelessness
This is one of the most interesting blogs I have ever read. It is written by a person who was homeless for about five years and details his experiences. Here is an excerpt from the entry The Importance of a Car Cover:
Be patient. Be sure it is not a cop. Look through the cover, to the extent you can. Search for glints that would reveal a badge. Look for the beam of a flashlight. Look for the red and blue strobes that reveal a police vehicle. Look for these things, because police require different tactics.
Now, when you are sure it is a thief, lean on the horn. The thief, terrified by the unfamiliar will retreat. In all my years in a car, I only had one thief return for a second try. They all ran away, and only one came back. That one did not return after a second blast of the horn. This plan works for several reasons. One is that the loudness of a car horn attracts unwanted (for the thief) attention that a car alarm never brings.
Middle Finger Man
He ends up going back and taking video of Middle Finger Man. It is a pretty funny story but isn’t there a little of Middle Finger Man in all of us?
(via Boing Boing)
The Roman Empire
This website isn’t very comprehensive but gives a fairly wide overview of the Roman Empire.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman empire is one of the most ambitious and finest crafted works done about the Roman empire but if you just want the “best of” you can go here.