Viewing conditions for astronomy also has satellite maps of smog here on Earth.

(Thanks to Lisa)
MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth/Aerosol Trajectory Maps
http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/aq/
GASP Satellite View of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)
http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/aq/index.php?plot_type=mod_Region&product_date=20080908&product_gmt=2345&product_id=2

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Quoted: Here are links to some websites that can help you predict where and when you'll get good transparency for deep-sky observing.

Take a closer look at the clock.

Quoted: Science News: the weekly magazine of The Society for Science and the Public

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=QUASISEPARABILITY&gwp=16

14 minute audio article. IraFlatow pronounces it with a short a. I ('cuz I'm a reader) thought it was Hādron (long a with a macron)

Quoted: The massive Large Hadron Collider at CERN is just a few weeks away from startup. The particle accelerator has passed several key performance tests, and is on track to send the first beam of particles through the ring of the accelerator on September 10th.

Scientists hope that this new collider, the most powerful in the world, will provide glimpses of particles and interactions that have so far been out of reach -- including the elusive Higgs boson, a particle thought to be responsible for matter having mass.

Related NPR Stories
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94110460
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April 11, 2008
Massive Particle Collider Raises Hopes, Concerns
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April 9, 2007
Q&A: Shedding Light on Physics Mysteries
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April 4, 2008
Company Sued for Potentially Ending the World
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April 1, 2008
Doomsday Fears for a Particle Accelerator
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April 9, 2007
The World's Largest Particle Accelerator
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April 9, 2007
Massive Particle Accelerator Revving Up

Who are all these people?
old tag: video, blog, free

old tags: video, blog, free
"There are many third party camera utilities available for download on the internet. Some of the programs our members use include Manycam, Camtwist, Webcam Max, and Fix8. Stickam makes no claims as to the compatibility of your system with any of these programs and you should try to find one that works best for you. "

Is this better than the movie My Diner with Andre? Is this better than TV?

And i don't understand it, but am intrigued, anyway.

http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/08/21/amazon-launches-ebs-persistant-storage-for-ec2/

old tag: blogs
Redotting something of Mike's,

"Today was the day that Leo Laporte jumped into the Tw*tter odyssey with both feet. He interviewed Identi.ca developer Evan Prodromou on one of his myriad non-stop podcasts that are also streamed live on his TwitTV channel.
"can we (Twitter) play out the clock long enough to establish enough market force to create a data stream valuable enough to auction off to marketers at an unassailable efficiency. Sort of Adsense for micro-blogging, or attention rank, or whatever you want to call a relevance engine for micro-objects.
"You can sit there and watch it: type a message into the Identi.ca Update GTalk (Jabber) IM window and watch it pop up in Twhirl in seconds. The bridge copies it over to Twitter, and API calls surface it perhaps a minute later. But Track is all about discovery, about real time conversations between nodes that may not know, or “follow” each other synchronously. By including the user name of a target in your message to someone who is running track on their name, you can establish a real time conversation on the spot. Twitter’s @reply messages work just fine with track, as do hashtags (#keyword) and other topic cues.
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Quoted: Science News: the weekly magazine of The Society for Science and the Public

Ants protect acacias in Mexico & CostaRica and spiders steal from them.
Bagheera kiplingi

Quoted: Suggested Reading:
seperator

* Sticky Subjects: Insights into ancient spider diet, kinship
* Proxy Vampire: Spider eats blood by catching mosquitoes