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searchengineland: Googley Easter eggs at Google Deutschland, thanks to Ralf Bremer for sharing on Google+. Check out more pics in search this week.
futurejournalismproject: Google Street View Captures Fukushima Ghost Town Via The New York Times: The eerily empty streets of Namie, a town deep in the evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, are featured in the latest images captured by Google for its Street View mapping project. The scene is wrenching: houses flattened by the earthquake and now abandoned for fear of radiation; rows of empty shutters on a boulevard that once hosted Namie’s annual autumn festival; ships and debris that still dot a landscape laid bare by the 50-foot waves that destroyed its coastline more than two years ago. Namie’s 21,000 residents are still in government-mandated exile, scattered throughout Fukushima and across Japan. They are allowed brief visits no more than once a month to check on their homes. Over at Lat Long, the Google Maps blog, Tamotsu Baba, the town’s mayor, writes: Ever since the March disaster, the rest of the world has been moving forward, and many places in Japan have started recovering. But in Namie-machi time stands still. With the lingering nuclear hazard, we have only been able to do cursory work for two whole years. We would greatly appreciate it if you viewed this Street View imagery to understand the current state of Namie-machi and the tremendous gravity of the situation. Those of us in the older generation feel that we received this town from our forebearers, and we feel great pain that we cannot pass it down to our children. It has become our generation’s duty to make sure future generations understand the city’s history and culture—maybe even those who will not remember the Fukushima nuclear accident. We want this Street View imagery to become a permanent record of what happened to Namie-machi in the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. Image: Screenshot, Google Street View from Namie-machi, Fukushima, Japan.
thisistheverge: Chromebook Pixel is Google’s play to go premium, but are we ready? The high-end price is tough to get used to
camillasdo: Today’s Sun looks a little more mean. Perhaps because Active Region 1678 has now developed a delta-class magnetic field, which harbors the energy from some strong explosions. NOAA NWS Space Weather Prediction Center estimates a 45% chance of a M-class and a 15% of an even stronger X-class solar flare over the next 24 hours. Active regions, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) appear bright here. The dark areas are called coronal holes and are places where very little radiation is emitted, yet are the main source of solar wind particles. And a very special Birthday to Remy at the European Space Agency. #NASA #SDO #Sun #Space #Weather #ESA #Birthday
8bitfuture: Nintendo mug is a cup full of awesome. I’d probably just spill my coffee while trying to enter the Konami Code, but this is still pretty great… Check it out on Etsy.