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The Obama family looks nothing like past US presidential families, but a lot more like polyglot and polycultural America. "The family that produced Barack and Michelle Obama is black and white and Asian, Christian, Muslim and Jewish. They speak English; Indonesian; French; Cantonese; German; Hebrew; African languages including Swahili, Luo and Igbo; and even a few phrases of Gullah"
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Powerful open source library to connect phones to desktop computers
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Early navigation, focused on Persia, India and Indonesian navigators travelling to Madagascar
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Excellent piece on rebbelib stick charts, with distinctions between charts that show islands and those purely to show wave swells
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Photo and description of the rebbelib, a shell and stick chart made by Micronesian navigators to remember locations of islands and wave swell patterns
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CNN uses PhotoSynth to stitch together a landscape of amateur photographs into a panorama of the Obama election