Using Google Earth to search for Steve Fosset

Missing aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett is lost somewhere in 10,000 square miles of Nevada desert. A traditional and comprehensive rescue effort has been in progress for days, but it is difficult to know where to look for him because he did not file a flight plan.
An unorthodox group of searchers are approaching this problem from a non-traditional angle, using updated satellite imagery from Google Earth and a new Web service from Amazon called the Mechanical Turk. They hope to harness the wisdom of crowds to examine in detail images of all 10,000 square miles in hopes of locating the crash site and effecting a rescue of Fossett.
Very cool use of technology and satellite imagery.
Mechanical Turk hypes itself as artificial artificial intelligence where people can complete simple tasks that people do better than computers (and sometimes get paid for it).
Click here to help with the search

energy independence in America

“None of us would write a check to Osama bin Laden, slip it in a Hallmark card and send it off to him. But that’s what we’re doing every time we pull into a gas station. We’re paying for both sides in the war on terror – our side with our tax dollars, the terrorists’ side with our gas dollars.” – Mike Huckabee

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Thompson turns down Huckabee’s invitation

From the Fred Thompson campaign: “We have the greatest respect for Gov. Huckabee and respect his desire to elevate the discourse in this campaign. But there are nine people running for the GOP nomination and an arbitrary pairing of just two of them does a disservice to the voters. We will push hard for Lincoln-Douglas style debates once we get into the General Election, when there are only two candidates running.”

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What’s happening in Hay Springs?

So I was nosing around geocaching.com today and found out about webcam caches.
Very cool. Basically you go find the webcam and either connect to the Internet with a Wi-Fi device and record a picture of you waving to the camera – or ask someone at home to record the picture.
Found out there’s a webcam on Main Street in Hay Springs, Nebraska where my Uncle Marvin lives.
I’m waiting to see if he ever shows up – I may be waiting a long time.
Either way – always fun to see what’s going on around the world.

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