Aditi sent me this:
Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis—an ancient city sunk by an earthquake about 2,000 years ago.
That’s the belief of Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan who has been diving at the site [...]
Category Archives: Science & Technology
Each One Tells His Own Version
Personal Bug Detectors
Here’s one from ThinkGeek
This one is cooler-looking though, I think. And let’s face it: if you’re going to get into this kind of technology, you owe it to yourself to try and feel as cool and “spy” as possible. (More devices from that retailer)
This noise generator is cool too, if crazy expensive: “The ANG-2200 is [...]
Local ISP’s As Banks & Financial Transaction Hubs
[Notes] Piggybacking onto the Value Transfer Protocol idea…
If money could be exchanged electronically through as “open” a standard as FTP (by analogy anyway), then that would catapult internet service providers into a ridiculously important new role to play: electronic banks.
In a sense, ISP’s are already that - if you accept that information is a form [...]
New AT&T Ad Campaign: Your Seamless World (All Videos)
Actually, I think there is a sixth one of these commercials directed by Wes Anderson, but I do not see it on YouTube.
Early Humans Obsessed With Corporate Products Too, Science Finds
Early Humans Wore Make-Up, Ate Mussels
In one of the earliest hints of “modern” living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.
Call it a beach party for early man.
But it’s a beach party thrown by people who weren’t supposed to be advanced enough for [...]
China’s Capitalism-Friendly Re-Branding Efforts
At the airport a month or so ago, I had the misfortune of being bombarded with wall-to-wall CNN broadcasts about China’s “new direction”. I swear they must have a special airport-feed version of CNN designed specifically to implant concepts into the minds of weary travelers. The bit that I heard (I tried to avert my [...]
