Cloudy Thinking

Sarah Perez offers suggestions about managing your feeds.

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Ruth and Cody Hatch of the Flatrock web site report about a 60 acre spider web bout 220 kilometres east of Prince George, British Columbia. Wow! [via reddit]

This video from MIT shows a cool sketching program than simulates the physics for a simple 2-d mechanical model. Wow! [via reddit]

We are so insignificant.

The Size Of Our World shows the comparative size of various objects in the cosmos. Did you know that Arctures dwarfs our Sun? Nevermind that Anatres makes Arctures look tiny.

US Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem “Forgetfulness” with animation by Julian Grey of Headgear. Awesome. Listen, and watch.

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Check out this picture of a robotic giraffe being readied for Burning Man.

The NASA Visible Earth site is awesome. Check out The Blue Marble. Happy Friday.

There’s a stunning picture on Wikipedia that shows the vortex created by an airplane. Wow.