Abduction of aboriginal whaling rights

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Abduction of aboriginal whaling rights: "When the authors of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling negotiated their first draft in 1946 and created the International Whaling Commission (IWC), they accepted that there were people, especially in the high Arctic, that relied on whales and other wildlife for their survival."

Black Van finished

This is how the 4/5 wide van turned out. I'll let parts of it remain grey. This is how it started out as at the mock up stage.

Arctic Reindeer Go Off the Circadian Clock

Arctic Reindeer Go Off the Circadian Clock | Wired Science | Wired.com: "“If you are being driven through a subjective day and night by an internal timer, you may be in ‘night mode’ when the optimal conditions for foraging are present.” said biologist Karl-Arne Stokkan of the University of Troms�in Norway, co-author of the study appearing Mar. 11 in Current Biology. “So it may be a disadvantage to have such a strong timer in such an environment.”"

First of Missing Primitive Stars Discovered

CfA Press Room: "'This star likely is almost as old as the universe itself,' said astronomer Anna Frebel of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, lead author of the Nature paper reporting the finding."

Today's ink and pens

Today I change from Caran d'Ache Type 55 with green Schneider ballpoint refill and MB149 with Noodler's Tanager Orange to a white Ballograf Epoca with blue refill and a MB200 with Pelikan Brilliant Green as my daily carry for the next few days.

Olympic Pictograms

Olympic Games Museum : "Olympic Pictograms, Example Athletics 1964 - 2012"

Skå 100306

Lae - inte bara en stad på Nya Guinea - Skå 100306

Nice Swedish winter aviation photos.

The Sims 3 + Regnar

I have turned off the voices in The Sims 3.

This is because last week, a couple of times Regnar was hiding near the doorway to the bedroom and when I approached he backed off and acted like he didn't recognise me. Took a few days before I connected that with the game.

Apparently he thinks the game voices are enough like real voices that he thinks there are other people here, unknown people.

Oldest Known Flying "Car" Up for Auction

Oldest Known Flying ‘Car’ Up for Auction | Autopia | Wired.com: "It doesn’t look like a car, and it doesn’t look like it would fly, but what is believed to be the world’s oldest “roadable aircraft” is for sale."

Mile-High Mega-Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power-Plant Ships

Mile-High Mega-Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power-Plant Ships | Wired Science | Wired.com: "Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a Korean research team’s new proposal for generating gigawatts of clean energy."