On the following website you may see an interactive snapshot of the town of Dresden, Germany. It is billed as the largest picture in the world today with a resolution of 297,500 x 87,500 pixels or 26 gigapixels (that's 26,000 megapixels if you compare it with your own camera's megapixel count).

Mostly, when it comes to finding new music, I've retreated to music recommended by friends and/or software-based recommendation systems like Last.fm. But Erika.net plays such a high percentage of music that is interesting to me that I end up seeking out music I hear on Erika probably about as frequently as three times per hour!

It is harvest season across the spectacular Andean valley of Otavalo, 2550 meters above sea level, where mountains are flanked by volcano peaks. But Diego Sucre can not find enough bananas to fill his pockets.

In the past couple of weeks, we've put about 70 people through helicopter ground school, followed by a 25-question multiple choice exam. What has surprised me the most is the lack of predictive value of a bachelor's degree in science or engineering from an American university.

A runner up at the Unive Ronde Van Drenthe last year, Loes Gunnewijk (Nederland Bloeit) would take that final, elusive step up the podium by winning this year's World Cup event, soloing ahead of teammate Annemiek Van Vleuten and Giorgia Bronzini (Gauss RDZ Ormu).

In Engineering Live I read an interesting article titled, "How manufacturers can prepare for post-recession profitability." David Hatrick, a technology and innovation consultant with PA Consulting Group in Cambridge, UK, recommends that manufacturing companies adopt a three-pronged strategy in order that they can emerge from the downturn as winners.

I recently decided my little cabin in the woods needed some help in the heating department. Self sufficiency and reliability have become my mantra lately, so I needed a dependable heat source that my own two hands could supply the fuel for.

I devoted a sizeable chunk of July to chasing the Speckled Trout, Redfish, and Blue Crabs of Grand Isle, Louisiana. My eagerness to fill my freezer with fish fillets and lump crab meat would have been better served by learning how the tides and moon phases effect fishing in coastal areas. I've heard old fishermen talking about how good the fishing gets when the tides and moon are just right, but I always wrote that off as superstition and mumbo jumbo. I've learned it's not.

One of the principles that we talk about a lot in the security field is that "security by obscurity" is a delusion; systems that depend on proprietary or otherwise secret methods generally turn out not to be secure at all. The latest system to be successfully broken is the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications [DECT] standard, used to encrypt radio transmissions between cordless telephones and their base stations.

Newspaper and magazine stories related to cancer are biased towards optimism, according to a research study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania. The study, which was reported in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, involved the review of 436 cancer-related stories that were published in national magazines and large-scale newspapers from 2005 to 2007.

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