Simply beautiful: a circuit diagram for a radio made from the London Tube map, instantly recognisable

Hey, just a little cross-promotion, my dad’s new site for his consulting firm is up at Lean Pursuit - they specialize in implementation of Lean principles for process improvement in a variety of companies, such as the manufacturing industry. If you haven’t heard of Lean techniques, you might know of Six Sigma - similar concept, all about reducing defects and smoothing the process of production. Anyway, I’m helping out with the site, so fingers crossed it gets up and running soon enough. ...

Spectacular view from the new Mars rover Curiosity: [caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“500”] Jupiter, Venus and Earth in the sky from Mars[/caption] Jupiter, Venus and Earth in the sky. Amazing to think where science is these days, and the sheer achievement of landing that rover in the first place is a testament to technology and its advancements. How long until we land humans on Mars?

Fantastic obituary to make anyone think their life is pretty boring - Count Robert de La Rochefocauld, former Resistance fighter in WWII: Cycling to Bordeaux to meet a contact who was to arrange his return to England, however, he ran into a roadblock, taken prisoner, and imprisoned at the 16th-century Fort du Hâ. His explanations that he had been out after dark on a romantic assignation were not believed and, in his cell, La Rochefoucauld considered swallowing the cyanide pill concealed in the heel of his shoe. ...

I’m sure this is going to get this little website banned in China, but yesterday the censorship of the internet there went through the looking glass: In an unlikely coincidence certainly unwelcome to China’s communist rulers, the stock benchmark fell 64.89 points on Monday, matching the numbers of the June 4, 1989 crackdown in the heart of Beijing. On the popular Sina microblog site, searches using ‘June 4’, ‘64.89’, ‘stock market’, and ‘benchmark Shanghai Composite Index’ were all blocked. ...