Author: Marcus Trimble

The paths of boats collecting ocean floor terrain data have turned up on Google Earth, leading the internets to speculate that these traces are in fact the ruins of Atlantis.

French artist and videographer David Lasnier paints using the Brushes app on his iPod Touch. via Wired

Nicolai Ouroussoff reviews the first phase of Diller Scofidio & Renfro’s overhaul of the Lincloln Centre.  NYT

Australian novelist Thomas Keneally considers the questions, doubts and fears raised by the Victorian bushfires.  Guardian.

Astronomy.net are building an ‘Astronomy Engine’ which trawls for usable images of the night sky and adds accurate data on the constellations visible in the image. They have been using the Flickr API to add metadata to the photos in the Astronomy pool. For Example here we see the NGC 957, and NGC 869, NGC…

Air New Zealand’s ‘cranial billboards’   NYT