World at Night

So it’s been a few days since the last update, but what do you expect. HS football started on Monday, and it’s kept myself and Becky pretty busy.

Anyway, here is a cool animation of the world as it is seen at night, and it’s even in 3D!

Globe at night

It’s still surprising how little lights there are in Africa.

Music sites for Dad

I recently was looking up information about some songs that Dad had on iTunes and came across some sites that I said I’d send to Dad and anyone else who may be interested. They are basically just websites for the Dillards, The Kingston Trio, and John Stewart.

THE DILLARDS – Doug and Rodney Dillard

The Kingston Trio: Homepage

The John Stewart Album Discography 1957-1980 “solo” work

Mountain West Icons

I am on some kind of roll today. Maybe it’s because I’ve been limited this week in the time I could just surf the internet and read about interesting things. But, I found some nice BYU icons as part of a whole Moutain West collection. You can grab the set from ResExcellence, or download the set directly via this link.

Alternately, you can download icons from just about every major conference by browsing the Pop Culture section on the page listed above.

Some interesting science/tech news

I ran across three very interesting (to me at least) articles on the science and technology front while surfing BBC World news. Here are the links to the BBC articles:

Astronomers detect ’10th planet’
This is really more of a confirmation of a suspected discovery from 2003. I believe it may have also been referred to as Planet X in the media back then.

Ice lake found on the Red Planet
The first water not associated with Mars’ polar caps. From the description it seems to be relatively large. I’m a little surprised this hasn’t been discovered before. But what do I know, I’m no astronomer. The picture is very detailed though.

Japanese develop ‘female’ android
So this android can only sit and do a few gestures right now. I couldn’t help but think about Data from Star Trek The Next Generation when reading this article. It’s pretty remarkable I think.