Courtesy of Mr. Possum:
A Google street view of the main highway between Johannesburg and Cape Town. LOL one lane each direction. The weed whacking crew are trimming excess vegetation!
They are in the middle of the Great Karoo:
Here’s the Google Maps Street View linky if you want to have a look around.
Computer code that sent the astronauts to the moon. There’s some funny in it, too.
The birth of the webcam: It had to do with a coffee pot in 1991.
Tired of Twitter’s squelching your opinions? Now there’s GAB.IE. It works in a similar way, but without the threat of being sent to #TwitterGulag.
Parking a Porche in Vancouver.
The Moral Machine [via] tests your base values in hypothetical situations involving a driverless vehicle. Do you run over the dog to save the ducklings? Apparently I like to run over animals to save humans more than most, and I prefer to save more lives.
Chevrotain is not a gasoline additive, but it’s apparently good eatin’ in some parts of the world.
Glemie Beasley is still The Coon Man. [Related story with links here.]
Cool wire-frame animation: counter-rotating equilateral triangles create a 3D rotating equilateral pyramid.
Here’s another classic: A Complete List of Things Caused By Global Warming (with links).
This Day in Jazz Age Music. There’s some great stuff in there.
[Top image: Baja Moon found here.]
The House in the Middle of the Street: A car stops beside a house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, November 22, 2012. An elderly couple refused to sign an agreement to allow their house to be demolished. They say that compensation offered is not enough to cover rebuilding costs, according to local media.
That place screams for a safety sign mounted high on both sides of the house:
Tacky Raccoons 