A couple happening links, the first via Cliff Pickover's always-diverting Reality Carnival and the second via Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond:
An Atlas of the Universe
This web page is designed to give everyone an idea of what our universe actually looks like. There are nine main maps on this web page, each one approximately ten times the scale of the previous one. The first map shows the nearest stars and then the other maps slowly expand out until we have reached the scale of the entire visible universe.
Calling the Glacier - A Mobile Elegy
You listen the to sounds of water, occasional cracking and other utterances made living glaciers as they grow and recede in perpetual seasonal flux.
The world has come to the awareness that global warming is real and that the ensuing climate change will affect us all. Our planet's glaciers are a powerful and dramatic symbol for this process. They are like giant living creatures that are slowly dying - melting, leaking and waning into ultimate oblivion.
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