Google Maps indoor

More info and video on Google Blog.

It only works in a few places in America right now, but I see a lot of potential in this. I wonder how accurate your position can be placed inside a building without GPS, new phones do have barometers now, so it should be able to tell which floor you are on. But even without seeing where you are on the map it's still pretty handy to have a floor plan of the building.

I wonder when we will get indoor roomview. This does already work in Google Art Project which lets you walk through museums and I blogged about a while ago.

What could possibly go wrong?

The Mars Science Laboratory has been launched towards Mars. Only the first few steps in a long series of single point of failures that can all waste 2 billion dollars.

Pretty Timelapses

The talk is a bit too new-agey for me, but the timelapses are very nice. I also posted this because I think it's bizarre that TEDxTalks can be in full HD whereas TED global talks are still in stupid 480p.

Real prospects for life extension

Good TED video.

She is 56 years, I wonder if she is secretly testing her findings on herself, or if it's just her genes or diet that makes her look younger.

Kitty City

Cyriak has made another video, this time with kitties. Also I included a little older one, because weird shit must come in pairs.

XKCD: Map projections

What a coincidence, I just posted about map projections a few days ago.

Time Lapse View from Space