Time lapse video using a camera mounted in a corner of Fenway Park. It begins in the afternoon before the game. The camera pans through 90 degrees and an entire ball game before the short film ends after 1 minute and 27 seconds. ...

In case you thought the world would ever run out of brouhaha, here is Jesus, the Spirit of God, a film (possibly AKA The Messiah) of the story of Jesus told from the Muslim point of view. The film has been in production for ten years by Iranian director Nader Talebzadeh. Jesus is played by Ahmad Soleimani-Nia, an Iranian, who studied at American University and Columbia University in the 1970s. Yes, many of my readers will recall the those abundant Iranian students at that time, who loved to wear high-heeled boots and polyester bell-bottom slacks. Talebzadeh has kept Soleimani-Nia ...

An inflatable pig "the size of a school bus" escaped its tether at the Coachella music festival. The owners are offering a reward of $10,000 plus 4 Coachella tickets for it. My fellow hikers know that the Mecca Hills are a magnet for escaped balloons, and it's not far from the concert site to the Mecca Hills, so I expect there's a fair chance that we'll be dragging that thing out of a canyon some time in the next couple of years. ...

An interesting story of a father and his son who go to a Detroit Tigers game. Some of the loose ends could have been tied up with a few more questions from the reporter. The kernel of the story is that Christopher Ratte (the dad) bought some Mike's Hard Lemonade "on the way to their seats" at a Tigers game a few weeks ago, and gave it to his 7-year old son, Leo, to drink. "At the top of the ninth inning" (IOW, the end of the game was near so a lot of time had passed), ...

Photo by hexod.us. This is snow at 10,000 feet (give or take a thousand) on Telescope Peak in Death Valley National Park. In the distance you see Badwater at something like 290 feet below sea level. ...

Huge panorama of Paris at night. ...

Here are the latest Apple iMac numbers: PriceDisplayChip SpeedRAMHard Drive$120020-inch2.4 GHz1 Gb250 Gb$150020-inch2.66 GHz2 Gb320 Gb$1,80024-inch2.8 GHz2 Gb320 Gb$2,20024-inch3.06 GHz2 Gb500 Gb Read about 'em here. Buy 'em here. ...

I don't know these two from Vermont, and nothing scandalous or ridiculous happens. They just have a pretty typical visit to Palm Springs: clothing optional resort, the restaurants, the bars, hiking in Joshua Tree. I wonder, though, at the quantity of raw seafood consumed. This is, after all, the desert, not Boston. There are no Target stores in Vermont?! Now, that is news. ...

An interesting page for when you're bored or looking for some trivia, Worldometers provides a long list of constantly updating statistics for the world. As I write, the world's population has risen by 149, 590 today (time zone and, therefore, "today," is undefined). 189,689,085: the number of miles Earth has traveled in "space within the Solar System this year." What's that? Must be something different than simply "in its orbit." Suggests, possibly, they are combining its distance in orbit plus the distance the solar system has traveled...in relation to the galaxy center? Energy statistics are provided "in metric tons ...