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It’s hard to follow the Boom De Ah Dah phenom, but this might do it.

NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory recently snapped the image of this unusual hand-shaped nebula. The by-product of a star gone supernova, its energetic particles span 150 light-years. This is big considering their source (a pulsar) spans a mere 19.3 km. The particles have had such wide reach because the pulsar spins incredibly fast: seven complete rotations [...]

This simple, elegant use of an informative online vid is what gets me excited about the web: The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. Another one of Jarvis’ projects: OverPowered – Losing Control is an exercise in controlling power…strike too hard, and you bring the system down… OverPowered – Losing Control from [...]

Video: Future Vision Montage Makes you forget about the economy…almost.

Out with the old, in with the new: DiscoveryChannel.ca/ The site launched a little over a week ago, and while there’s still some tweaks to be made, I can’t stop raving about how much I love it…MUCH easier to navigate (and populate), and easy on the eyes… It also allows us to start afresh, in [...]

Jeff Berman, one of the fantastic segment producers at Daily Planet, is working on a behind-the-scenes piece for this upcoming IMAX 3D feature, directed by Howard Hall. I’ll be working on the web-side version, for our soon-to-be-relaunched site, www.DiscoveryChannel.ca. Digging around on the doc site, I found this neat widget. I spent a large part [...]

Our site designer, Matt Carson, first brought this to my attention last week…Like the hordes of people who subsequently brought Bergman’s site down, I was in awe…One might wonder about the security implications of these types of shots. Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> You can view the image, and the specks on Gigapan.org. [...]

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

Daily Planet did a segment on this in 2007. It’s one of my all time favourite DP clips as well.

Watch from the 2:20 min mark, when it goes from analyzing to solving.