our world may be a giant hologram

i am not a bright lad. so explaining this article is a bit of a struggle for me. so i will steal a quote out of it to go with the headline.

Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.

hmmm. read the article here

get your giant map here

the entire earth at 84,000 pixels tall and 168,000 pixels across. thats what you get when you download the large version of a map of the earth from unearthed outdoors. they have made this free 32-tile map available under a creative commons attribution 3.0 license. each square is 21,000 pixels square and available as a png or geotif. they have smaller images available but who needs them when you have a 600dpi map of the earth thats 24 feet long?

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short history of video games

saw this on core77. it brought back a ton of memories. it specifically mentions the et game from atari and its effect on the industry. i remember the game sucking out loud but did not realize to what extent but if you want to know what extent, read the wikipedia page. interesting. anyways, a cool watch.

A Short Visual History of Videogames from Kyle Downes on Vimeo.

water-based glasses

this could be the beginning of something huge. Josh Silver, an inventor and former professor of physics at Oxford University, has created a set of glasses capable of being mass produced that can be altered to fit a custom prescription easily. how? by adjusting the amount of water the lenses hold. this could completely overhaul eye care and as a by-product, literacy in developing countries. read about it here

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The flag of equal marriage

Anyone interested in supporting equal marriage, here's the protest flag, and the backstory to its creation.