Holy fuck, this is terrifying

Complete car hacking and takeover is entirely possible now, even without ever having physical access to the car. You would think the manufacturers could have seen this coming and done something about security before it got to this point.

Full article here.

Makes the conspiracy theory about the journalist Michael Hastings being killed by remote car hack more plausible.

Extreme blobbing

Much crazier and higher but non-embeddable link. Gif version:

Global electricity network

Europe,

The Netherlands, wind turbines as red dots,

Interactive map, http://www.itoworld.com/map/

web.archive.org/web/2010/August/rainbowboys.org

First close-up of Pluto

More to come...

If the Moon Were Only One Pixel: A Tediously Accurate Scale Model of the Solar System

Some pretty epic scrolling on this page.

kingdom of the little people

http://youtu.be/S2UgwINQVPM