Strong Current has migrated to various locations as the hurling of advertising is overpowering.

There is 'home' in Sydney: Manly

Strong Current is always active on del.icio.us

Reports on the environmental folly

Places on the Earth

or just engages in slow blogging from Berlin at Entangled Flux

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Hope to see you at the other sites

Rita 

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is classified as a Western genre, but it is primarily about cross cultural communication between the USA and Mexico, friendship and ethics. It probes the Gringo's way of 'life': Surviving sense-less lives in demountables on a big meat quarry. Betrayal in a 'landscape of billboards'. Border Patrols and locals police the new Walls with bullets and participatory webcams. Tommy Lee Jones crosses the border from cowboy-land to a humane (land-)scape.

The Internet Archive is featuring free access to rich media (moving images, music, audio or texts)

The National Science Foundation always has interesting speeches and lectures.

"Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks." If you like mind-maps or visual thinking, check out their gallery.

'Controlling hostile crowds' with laser guns? Could a temporary blindness lead to total blindness?

Matt Jalbert features some stunning photography of urban sprawl in California. Check out this unsustainable mono-culture. How they chuck their cars into the landscape. But there are also nice images from Death Valley National Park. (via Kottke)

Fireflyforest has great images of wildflowers and wildlife in Arizona.

Snailstales is about snails, slugs, snails and slugs. Good reflections on natural history.

The National Library of Australia Pictorial Collection contains 80,000 digitalised images from Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.

The Google video of the day is annotated here.

Watch how sharks disappear from an aquarium? (Via Google videoblog)

Watch a beehive being massacred by hornets.

Try free anonymous browsing.

Ray Kurzweil on upgrading the human: Human 2.0

Action against 4x4s in France and the UK

Beaut historical films from the The National Archives of England. 'Crossing the road' or 'coughs and sneezes' seems timeless.

Just in case I'm not around here, there is almost daily:
my del.icio.us
Australian Furl tags
and there is a lot of stuff in these archives...

Jakob Nielsen's weblog usability could be handy for many bloggers. I especially liked pt.10 where he points out the importance of being in charge of your micro-publishing. I disagreed with the fiction of 'biographies' & photos on blogs.

Placeopedia matches Wikipedia articles with places on the Google map. Browse, syndicate or add your location. There were a lot of locations I could not find...