links for 2007-05-16

05/16/2007 By sweetney

Better to Be a Chimpanzee
Hiasl, a 26-year old Austrian-based chimpanzee, is petitioning the courts for human status
(tags: animals science)
Geekologie – Tornado video shot form 50 yards
People are crazy go nuts.
(tags: video nature)
under_water_tiger – a photoset on Flickr
He’s quite the swimmer.
(tags: flickr photos animals)
New York Times – The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis
Great article about wisdom and age (and whether these are related or not)
(tags: aging health society philosophy)
flickrvision (beta)
google maps + flickr + real time = AWESOME
(tags: flickr cool internet mashup)

ozma
I scored high on the wisdom quiz so I think this is evidence that the quiz is not too reliable…
I’m wise enough to know I am foolish, though. This should count for something.
I know I don’t know– I’m the wisest man in Athens!
Katie Kat
Those tornado guys are just lucky that was a “small” tornado (maybe F2). If it had been one of the big ones, like the one that wiped Greensboro, KS off the map, they would be dead.
Just sayin’…