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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Cameras

Five Shocking Time-Lapse Videos Of The Los Angeles Wildfire

11:00AM Sean Fallon | After 11 days, Firefighters believe they have finally made progress battling the arson fire that has ravaged 148,258 acres of Angeles National Forest. That is a herculean feat, as these frighting time-lapse videos illustrate. More »
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Science

LA Smouldering From Space

1:40AM Matt Buchanan | The LA fires have actually exploded to double the 245 kilometres they cover in this photo taken Sunday morning by NASA’s Terra satellite. I imagine this is sort of what LA will look like from space mid-apocalypse. [NASA via BoingBoing]
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Gadgets

400,000 Bouncy Black Balls Invade Reservoir to Stop Carcinogen

8:45AM Gizmodo US Edition | While yesterday the world was ogling over the iPhone 3G black body, some people were just awing over black balls. 400,000 of them. Black balls everywhere, bouncing, swinging, cavorting, happily hopping down the side of the Ivanhoe Reservoir with two objectives. First, to fight bromate by stopping sunlight, which forms this carcinogenic component mixing the chlorine and bromide in the water. Second, to let me use “bouncy black balls” in a headline. More »
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