[QUOTE=chalsall;311280]Indeed. And currently there's great "fishing grounds" for plastic in the pacific between Japan and Vancouver....[/QUOTE]

And another in the Atlantic. From Wikipedia:

"This gyre is similar to the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Gyre"]North Pacific Gyre[/URL] in the way it traps man-made [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_debris"]ocean debris[/URL] in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Garbage_Patch"]North Atlantic Garbage Patch[/URL], similar to the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch"]Great Pacific Garbage Patch[/URL] in the North [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific"]Pacific[/URL].[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Gyre#cite_note-lavlaw-0"][1][/URL]"

A 1939 Map of Physics
 

[url]http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=6431[/url]

Pi in the Sky
 

[url]http://gizmodo.com/5942949/artist-skywrites-the-first-thousand-digits-of-pi-over-san-francisco[/url]

That is great, and very distinct. It made me think "Surrender Dorothy"!

[QUOTE=retina;311404][URL]http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=6431[/URL][/QUOTE]
Note the Mersenne "village" next to the bay of Sound (and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_Mersenne#L.E2.80.99Harmonie_Universelle_.281637.29"]rightly so[/URL])!

[url]http://now.msn.com/capitan-the-german-shepherd-has-slept-on-his-owners-grave-for-six-years[/url]

As always, no shrines (just doing his job):
[url]http://bigstory.ap.org/article/neil-armstrong-1st-walk-moon-buried-sea[/url]

The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block”
 

[url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/?page=1[/url]

[QUOTE=schickel;311818][url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/?page=1[/url][/QUOTE][url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2078566/[/url]

Seagull steals filming video camera and flies off with it over San Francisco bay. When it apparently realises that it isn't edible, instead of just dropping it in the sea, it returns it to dry land, carefully laying it down so that this extraordinary film survives.

[YOUTUBE]4g_57ymHrdo[/YOUTUBE]

[QUOTE=Brian-E;311836]Seagull steals filming video camera and flies off with it over San Francisco bay. When it apparently realises that it isn't edible, instead of just dropping it in the sea, it returns it to dry land, carefully laying it down so that this extraordinary film survives.

[YOUTUBE]4g_57ymHrdo[/YOUTUBE][/QUOTE]I went looking for that link today because it is a GoPro camera and just came across a video of one of those cameras dropped at the start of a 12,500 feet skydive that recorded the fall and landed intact.[QUOTE]gopro freefall from 12500 without case

bumped my head on the door frame on exit unclasping the latch on the box. The camera popped out on exit at 12.500 and fell straight down onto the landing area at the DZ and was recovered by a fellow skydiver. It even caught our landings. Not one scratch on the body or lens. Still can't believe that I got it back and that it is totally fine. A buddy the same day who is one of our camera flyers had the same thing happen but with his SLR....not the same result. I'm definitely a gopro fan for life these little guys are bomb proof[/QUOTE][YOUTUBE]aU-KvtA20v8[/YOUTUBE]
While looking for the SF seagull incident, I came across another one from Cannes, France, last year. This is also a GoPro camera.[QUOTE]Seagull stole GoPro

Seagull stole my video camera in Cannes France. I found it on the castle wall, where I had to climb.[/QUOTE][YOUTUBE]rIu5B3Fsstg[/YOUTUBE]

A Haswell architecture session at IDF2012 [url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/6263/intel-haswell-architecture-disclosure-live-blog[/url] was mentioned by Jeff Gillchrist in this [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=311631&postcount=23"]msg[/URL]. What interested me about that is Haswell adds hardware image stabilization. Watching the video of the falling camera struck me with how all this image stabilization information has been welling up lately (and that the camera fall would surely be beyond state of the art). Nokia faked the image stabilization quite recently used in a commercial purporting to demonstrate it with their new Lumia 920 and had to apologize.