links for 2007-05-16

• 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)

Comments

[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'...