Einar Oberg, a Swedish developer, has transformed Google Street View into Jungle Street View. Basically, you can see what your neighborhood would look like in a "I am Legend" post-apocalyptic time.
The Vatican Library is digitizing what it considers it's most valuable manuscripts with the help of NNT Data Corp. If you don't care that the Catholic Church is digitizing 82,000 manuscripts from their private library, you should listen up. Upon completion, the digital library will be available to the public.
Not really geek related, but it's fun nonetheless. If you haven't heard that Fred Phelps died this week, I can't help you. But I can tell you that someone from Planting Peace bought the house across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church, and painted it pretty rainbow colors.
As if it wasn't bad enough that it's the smallest planet in our solar system, Mercury is shrinking. Any well camouflaged inhabitants needn't worry though, it's lost 8.8 miles off of it's diameter over the last 3.8 billion years. I'm sure it'll be okay for a few more decades.
Star Wars Episode 7 is set to start filming in May. It's feels almost as if I have some type of Star War related story every post...
Late last week, Cubestormer 3 beat the Rubix cube world record, finishing in 3.253 seconds. No, Cubestormer 3 is not an internet handle. It's a lego robot with a Android smartphone brain, which sparks the question, "What failed diabolical project where they working on when they realized their lego robot could also play Rubix?"
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