The site ITO World created a visualisation how, after the vulcano eruption in Iceland, the European air trafic was restarted. Nice animation. More worrying is the analysis shown on InformationIsBeautiful.net - this basically says that European air trafic is emitting daily the estimated equivalent in CO2 of 2 Icelandic vulcanos - non stop, day in day out, and probably increasing by the day.

Here's a chance to get there in a minute, for free.

Following up on my earlier post of Prague in 18 Gigapixels, there's now a panoramic (180°) image that was stitched from 2346 photographs. Visit Paris in 26 Gigapixels.

Dutch physics student Tim Smit fabriated a 10 min. sci-fi movie on his computer, using his computer to produce special effects. Shooting the tootage cost no more than € 150, he claims. The test movie was shown on a festival and got nearly 2 million hits on youtube. 20th Century Fox is interested.

This panorama, currently the largest existing, is composed of hundreds of photographs taken with a 200mm lens from the Zizkov TV tower in prague. After weeks of stitching this panorama is the result, which would in print be 16m long...

http://www.360cities.net/prague-18-gigapixels

The photographer is Jeffrey Marti, founder of 360Cities.net

If you've got 20 min. and feel like being entertained by an intelligent person talking about creativity, watch Sir Ken Robinson in his TED talk.

He's funny and absolutely right.