The Weekest Links: Nuke.com, Google Air, Twitter Surgery
January 23, 2009 by Craig Stoltz
If it’s Friday it’s time to sift through the dustpan of another amazing, amusing and alarming week on the Interwebs. . .
1. Ground Zero
A Google maplett that lets you select a munition and a type of nuclear weapon and see what sort of “thermal damage” it might do to the target area. Frighteningly, the destruction rendered by the blast of “Little Boy” [Hiroshima] seems. . .well, not all that bad relative to today’s weapons. Or an asteroid. [h/t Very Short List]
A public affairs arm of the USAF has a modest news-and-info blog on that operates on. . .Blogger! Say, is this another one of those Google-inside-deals-with-the-government things? If federal offices start using Orkut to “create citizen communities,” we’ll know something really stinks.
. . .and finally, our regular sighting of the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse ™:
The captions appearing in the “comments” under this photo, which depicts Henry Ford Health System surgeons describing the action and taking questions, are priceless. Favorite: “At least they’re not searching Wikipedia.” [n.b. While the docs pictured above were scrubbed in, neither was the "primary" surgeon.]
priceless indeed..thanks! Reminds me of that Larson cartoon..couldn’t resist:
http://knowbodies.blogspot.com/2009/01/from-annals-of-medical-history.html