Apr 14
Turns out, those drone hunting permits
Apr 08
These optical targets in the Arizona desert were built for calibrating the cameras of a spy satellite network called the Corona program. Similar to the huge bar codes found across the U.S. southwest, also used for testing high-altitude cameras, these targets are glyphs meant to be seen from the sky: fixed points of focus and orientation for classified machines soaring through space far above.
Apr 03
Back in 1966 a woman in North Phoenix, Arizona sealed a time capsule in the wall of her home. Betty Klug, then 33, didn’t tell her husband nor her two kids about the capsule. It remained a secret until contractors working on the home recently discovered the time-traveling treasure. Fair warning: If you’re not a robot, you should probably get some tissues handy.
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Feb 25
Apple’s got a vested interest in Arizona’s future—its newest factory will break ground there in 2015, bringing thousands of jobs to the state. And the company is now advocating for local policy. Today, Apple publicly took a stand against the state’s highly controversial proposed anti-gay legislation.
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Dec 07
It’s the colors that get you when you’re out in nature. If you live in a city, you’re mostly dealing with drabs of gray speckled with Instagrams of exposed red bricks. If you live in the suburbs, you’ll see manicured lawns, potted trees, stucco and tile roofs until you’re myopic. But if you’re outside, like really outside, you’ll see ballets of pink, golden orgies, blistering diamonds, the honesty of red and mounds of dirt that are baked with life. It’s a wonderful world out there and we don’t see it enough.
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Oct 16
The primary complaint against solar power—that it, you know, requires the sun—is perfectly valid. But Arizona’s new Solana Generating Station, the largest capacity solar thermal plant on the face of the Earth, has just provided a $1.4 billion counterpoint. Thanks to its massive molten salt reserves, this plant keeps producing power even after lights out.
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Sep 26
It’s hard to decide what makes this house being built in Arizona most like a comic book. Is it the manta ray shape? The location on top of Mummy Mountain (an actual place)? The ten-car garage for escape vehicles? How about all of the above?!
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Mar 11
Arizona Town Replaces an Alligator’s Tail with a Prosthesis and Orange Floaty Water Wing
Posted in: Today's Chili
An alligator with an orange water wing on its butt and a rubber tail. This marvel of science is given to us by the Phoenix Herpetological Society, because apparently everyone in Florida was taking the week off from doing insane things. More »
Jan 31
Google must take as long to sift through vacation photos as everyone else. A few months after it sent its Trekker cameras to sweep the Grand Canyon, the resulting panoramas are at last showing on Google Maps. The expansion gives us 360-degree views from paths spanning roughly 75 miles, including tougher routes like the South Kaibab Trail. The views won’t fully convey the majesty of standing on the canyon’s edge, but they’re quicker than booking a hiking expedition in Arizona — and certainly easier on the legs.
Via: Google Official Blog
Source: Google Maps
Oct 24
Google Trekker goes to the Grand Canyon, takes Street View souvenirs back home
Posted in: Today's Chili 
You might remember Google’s unveiling this spring of the Street View Trekker, a seeming cross between a backpack and Van de Graaff generator that lets the mapping team produce 360-degree imagery where even trikes dare not tread. The portable camera ball is just going on its first trip, and Google has chosen the most natural destination for a novice tourist — the Grand Canyon, of course. Staffers with Trekkers are currently walking trails along the South Rim of the canyon to provide both eye-level points of reference for wayward hikers as well as some breathtaking, controllable panoramas for those who can’t (or won’t) make it to Arizona. Once the photos make it to Street View sometime in the undefined near future, it’ll be that much easier to turn down Aunt Matilda’s 3-hour vacation slideshow.
Filed under: GPS, Internet, Google
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