Yet more keen links one might want to share

[glatt]

I had the sound turned off. I'll have to listen.

[glatt]

This guy, Sergey Larenkov, makes these amazing images. He's got dozens of them on his livejournal page. He takes a historic old photo and then goes to the location and takes a photo of the same spot today. Then he photoshops them together to have a blending of the old and the new in the same image. It's kind of like seeing the ghosts of history. I really like the effect.

[Clodfobble]

Wow, extremely cool. No offense, glatt, but your chosen example doesn't really do his style justice, IMHO. It looks like he just split the picture down the middle. See below for a better shot of his blending skills:

[glatt]

What amazes me is how he goes out and gets a shot today that matches so closely the original. I don't have any idea how he could do that. Obviously, you need to take the original picture with you when you go out with your camera, but you need to be in the exact right spot, at the right height, with the camera using the correct focal length lens.

[gtown]

ThisOldHouse.com has Home Inspection Nightmares AKA American Ingenuity/Insanity.

I admit I've done one thing in my attic that might wind up here but in general it makes me feel good about the condition of my old house.

Two examples (from the site, not my house ), showing a car radiator/floor heater and some crazy pipework:

[gtown]

WatchThatPage.com

Awesome free site that emails you updates on websites. I never was a fan of RSS and this site is simple but still very configurable. Works great to monitor craigslist searches.

[skysidhe]

http://dornob.com/diy-solar-lamp-mak...ndly-sun-jars/

[xoxoxoBruce]

Skysidhe, those SunJars are crap. I gave out a half dozen of them for Christmas, a couple years ago, and they all failed almost immediately.

[jinx]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

As people, we get around.

I think it was xoB who bought the package from I think it was National Geographic? where you could send them a cheek swab, and they could track back your Y chromosome and tell you where your distant ancestors had come from?

This really cool animation shows everything we know as a result of that Y chromosome, combined with archaeology, fossil records and climatology. Be sure to click on the little cloud symbol where it appears, and you'll get additional notes about climate change during that period. Don't miss the dramatic turn of events 74000 years ago!

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/?

Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago

The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to "mitochondrial Eve" -- the maternal ancestor of all living humans -- confirms that she lived about 200,000 years ago. The Rice University study was based on a side-by-side comparison of 10 human genetic models that each aim to determine when Eve lived using a very different set of assumptions about the way humans migrated, expanded and spread across Earth.

[Shawnee123]

Stupid unicorns. Grrrrrrrrr.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by jinx

Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago

Yes but she was such a slut, National Geographic has to say who's your daddy, by checking Y chromosomes.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Skysidhe, those SunJars are crap. I gave out a half dozen of them for Christmas, a couple years ago, and they all failed almost immediately.

humm

too bad


but,I actually came looking for the night sky link. That bright star in the sky? That's Jupiter. I need to confirm.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

humm

too bad


but,I actually came looking for the night sky link. That bright star in the sky? That's Jupiter. I need to confirm.

Jupiter is never "bright". It's probably Venus.

[Gravdigr]

Saturn?

[Gravdigr]

Lots and lots of maritime whoopsies.