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I've been going on about this for some time, and finally here's a very organised way of showing the idea.

(via Ferreira's dump)

The image above is part of the satellite imagery that Google recently released of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) - commonly known as The Boneyard. It's a collection of over 4,000 retired aircraft including nearly every plane the US armed forces have flown since World War II.

Get more info at BBC News, or just explore the whole thing in Google Maps.

(via Gizmodo)

Thanks to @grealish.

I thought I could take it for a few more days, but no. I have to say it: I'm sick of Christmas!

There's only so much one can take, and the amount of Xmas-related stuff we get bombarded with every single year is just too much.

The constant talk about Christmas subjects is excruciating. Christmas presents, Christmas tree, Christmas decorations, Christmas presents, Christmas dinner, Christmas lunch, Christmas tea, Christmas breakfast, Christmas presents... Isn't it supposed to be a religious holiday? A celebration of the birth of this guy Jesus Christ that lived some 2000 years ago?

Because gift-giving and many other aspects of the Christmas festival involve heightened economic activity among both Christians and non-Christians, the holiday has become a significant event and a key sales period for retailers and businesses. The economic impact of Christmas is a factor that has grown steadily over the past few centuries in many regions of the world.

Oh... I guess not... But at least it helps the economy...

And the songs! Oh, the songs! I believe there's no such thing as a good Christmas song. Some are more tolerable than others, but that's as good as they get. And here in Galway's pubs they think it's a good idea that the last 4 or 5 songs are Xmas songs... Argh!

Now, not everything is bad. Here's some of the things I actually enjoy about this season:

• I welcome the Christmas decorations at work. A Christmas tree here and there, socks hanging in every other cubicle, an inflatable reindeer (?!). They give a bit of "color" to the otherwise gray-ish cubicles;
• The lights on the streets look good, and sometimes quite impressive. Again, they're a welcome change to those streets that look the same every day;
• I love the fact that Christmas is an excuse to organise dinners and parties with every group of friends. It's a great opportunity to get back in touch with people you haven't seen in a while;
• One thing I would like to see becoming a tradition is girls dressing up in Xmas-themed clother. Nothing like a tiny green "Santa dress" with knee-high (also green) tights and high heels... Ho! Ho! Ho!

Rant over.

The geek in me just gave a few good laughs at these screen shots of what Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Darth Vader, Chewie, C-3PO and other Star Wars characters would write on their Facebook walls.

And if you haven't seen it before, here's another Facebook parody - The Facebook of Genesis.

Oh... wait...

Nevermind...

This is probably the best Halloween costume I have ever seen.

Just... Awesome!

I think the video speaks for itself:

This is the closest you'll ever get to finding out if the carpet really does match the blue drapes.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons, Playboy will feature Marge Simpson in their November issue. The details of the "shoot" aren't many, except for Hugh Hefner's tweet and TMZ saying that she’ll be posing in a bunch of sexy cartoon lingerie.

Just like they did on Samuel Morse's birthday and Louis Braille's birthday, today, on the 57th birthday of the Barcode, Google presented its logo as vertical black bars on a white background.

Now if, for some bizarre reason, you want to generate a similar Barcode for your name, just head over to morovia.com, and select "Code 128" as the Barcode Format. This is how my name looks like:

And what good would an encoder be without a decoder? Use ZXing.org to uncover the hidden messages in barcodes.