Category: Web sightings

  • Cute baby pandas

    Cute baby pandas

    Try and work in these conditions! And I thought that People’s Republic of China had unions to protect workers…

  • Pinnipeds

    Aren’t they cute these pinnipeds?

  • Fast forward to 29,029 ft (Mount Everest)

    Mount Everest is high. No. It’s the highest point on Earth and it is 29,029-feet high. Do you see what it really means? This is too high to easily recognize. So, Richard Johnson, Bonnie Berkowitz, and Lazaro Gamio provided a web page with a long graphical representation of this height. You can visit at Scaling…

  • Once more! Ice-Altitude

    Yes! I did it again! Here is a new web site I launched recently. this time, the intent is to share Marion Jonchères’ passion for cold, ice, snow and altitude. Here, you will only find extreme sports, high altitude mountaineering, North Pole or South Pole. But this is based on detailed commentaries and spectacular pictures.…

  • Star Wars: Be ready for a Hott Summer

    Star Wars: Be ready for a Hott Summer

    Here comes Summer with its trail of cute little dresses for the beach and bathing suits. But, for Star Wars fans, it’s time to rush for these extreme suits perfect for planet Hott. Shop at http://shop.blackmilkclothing.com/ (Sorry! Out of stock now).

  • Free fonts by the thousands

    Free fonts by the thousands

    You can’t have too many fonts for your computer. Or can you? Actually, I am trying to make sure that you will get much more than you can swallow here: tens of thousands of character fonts. Not only a bunch of them, but two sources of the nicest kind. FontPark is nothing less than a…

  • Perspective on global warming

    Perspective on global warming

    I like to see it summarized in a wider scope on the following graph: What do you not see? Via: ScienceBlogs.

  • After 800,000 years: Global warming

    How did carbon dioxide evolve in Earth atmosphere in the nearly 1 million years in the past? YouTube link

  • Manufacturing phones in China

    Manufacturing phones in China

    Phone manufacturing plants are impressively clean and tidy. However, at least in a Foxconn China factory, the workers live in a slightly less pleasant quarters. This is what Joel Johnson, Gizmodo reporter, has been able to show us. All the photos and comments are on Wired.