Oct 15 2008
If you’re paying attention (always a question, since there’s so much going on these days in the world), the piracy thing is getting a lot of media attention lately. And people are genuinely freaked out. Everyone loves Jack Sparrow, but when faced with the reality of piracy, that there are scary folks out there on [...]
Oct 14 2008
HT: The Amazing Jonathan
Check out this animation, that explains the phenomenon of “dead water”. Beautiful!
http://arxivblog.com/?p=669
Oct 09 2008
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/10/introducing_our_first_sailing_partn.html
How is this for spectacularly cool!? You can bet this is one KML I’ll be downloading immediately and following intently.
Oct 07 2008
More loveliness in our Bay:
Water Districts Fined For Bay Sewage Spills
(I’d post the article and discuss it, but the AP would fine my socks off if they knew, so I’ll just link and hope they don’t catch me)
And from Baykeeper, Oil Spill Bills Signed Into Law by the Governor
Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law seven bills [...]
Oct 06 2008
This just in, from Sea Shepherd:
Sea Shepherd is very excited to announce that on Friday, November 7th Animal Planet will premiere Whale Wars at 9 PM ET/PT in the US, and internationally in early 2009.
During Sea Shepherd’s Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Migaloo in 2007/08, Animal Planet had a camera crew on board a campaign [...]