Illuminated Snow

 Snow is falling around in most countries around the world leaving many airports to delay flights and travelers stuck. A white Christmas is truly magical and a beautiful sight. Everyone is freezing cold, the heater is blowing, you are wrapped in blankets drinking hot cocoa, and its all white outside. I really love this feeling and what makes it better is watching movies, I used to always watch 'Grinch.'  In Harbin, China the sight is magnificent with colored lights all around and the snow is illuminating with technicolor. Shirakawa-Go, Japan is a lovely sight with cabins lit up. Looking at all the lights in those two places was really nice.

Shirakawa-gō, Japan

Harbin, China

Last Lunar Eclipse 2010

 Lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes behind the earth, for this to happen, the sun,earth and moon must be aligned. Lunar eclipses last for hours and can bring darkness to the sky excluding the stars. A lunar eclipse will occur mostly on the 21st of December 2010. This lunar eclipse will be the last for 2010. Way in the past lunar eclipses left cavemen in terror. Get ready to stay awake or wake up early if your going to see it!

The map of the world, in the view of Facebook

 Facebook is one of the most used social network in the world. Most people in the world have a Facebook account but which countries use it a lot! Much of America, Europe and South-East Asia have a lot of Facebook activity. According to the map below, most of the world uses Facebook, thats really a lot of people. Here is the map of the world according to Facebook.

From: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/12/14/facebook.relationships.mashable/index.html
CNN

Feathered Friend Falcon

 Falcons have been both a friend of man and an enemy. It is a mighty glorious bird of prey that eats many things with its sharp talons. For the Olympic sailors they received help from a falcon because normally in the morning there are a bunch of seagulls outside. Seagulls tend to be noisy birds that keep squawking so it is hard for the olympic sailors to sleep. The sailors need a lot of sleep for the competition to be focus and because the sailors must be awake and concentrated in order for better performance. The sailors needed help to get these pests away so then came 'Felix the Falcon.' He helped keep the seagulls away and seagulls usually make a lot of mess because of their 'droppings' so that was also avoided.The falcon was even able to board and be part of the Skandia Team GBR. So thanks to the Felix the Falcon for helping the Olympic sailors!

National Geographic video of Falcon!

Holographic World Cup

  The fight for which country will host the 2022 World Cup is on and Japan, Australia, Qatar, South Korea, and the United States are competing. Japan thinks of a sci-fi hope to turn to reality with a holographic football/soccer world cup match! A real stadium will be filled with people watching the world cup but a holographic version which is full-sized and broadcasted. It looks pretty real and amazing but most people doubt this could happen. There is technology like this but it is very expensive. Other then the holographic match, Japan also says that they want to release a real time translater for fans to talk to each other and a handheld computer that gives views and information on the match. This all sounds very futuristic and i'm hoping to see become reality. Good luck Japan for that is a creative but expensive idea!

Holographic Football/Soccer, an idea from Japan!