Wake up, Metro riders...(!)

Fascinating experiment conducted by the Washington Post and one of my Hoosier musical heroes, Joshua Bell. Terrific (warning: somewhat longish read) article + video with all the details/analysis...absolutely stunning results!

Google Earth and Darfur

This is important...released earlier today.

[download the.kmz file here]

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. The Museum has assembled content, photographs, data, and eyewitness testimony from a number of sources that are brought together for the first time in Google Earth.

Crisis in Darfur is the first project of the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative that will over time include information on potential genocides allowing citizens, governments, and institutions to access information on atrocities in their nascent stages and respond.