Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics

[The Equinational Projection map](http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/2001-the-reeves-equinational-projection/). I used to care about whether Peters or Mercator was better. But then I got a globe.

[Woden under construction in 1971](http://the-riotact.com/?p=5860). Canberra is a very, very young city.

[A map of the exact borders of the US](http://www.radicalcartography.net/?us-territory). Gives a good idea of just how fuzzy a concept like ‘territory’ can be.

[Make your own Theremin](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/make_a_theremin_weekend_p_1.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). No one who’s seen the SF films of the 1950s could ever mistake the sound.

[A photocopier that ‘intelligently’ decides which bits to redact](http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/1457200&from=rss). I can confidently guarantee this would become the most hated piece of equipment in any office.

[Lights to make your bike look like a Police vehicle](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cycling/bicygnals-front-and-rear-lights-makes-your-bike-look-like-a-cop-car-318296.php). Funny the first time. Until the car comes back and runs you off the road, that is.

[Photographs of the guards and staff of Auschwitz Concentration Camp having a good old time](http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/09/frolicking_in_the_shadow_of_hell.php). Looking at these sent a tremendous shiver down my spine.

[Pictures of Saturn from the Cassini probe](http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/10/15/cassini-10-years-and-counting/). It’s incredible to think that space probes like this have only been around for 30 years.