Missed meteors and cool cloud

Two APOD things of note:We missed the Perseids this year – partly by being in the southern hemisphere (just) and partly by having a cloudy night. Roll on next year.Perseid stormAmazing picture of a cloud (maybe) caused by a sonic boom.Sonic boom cloud

Nikon firmware update

Sounds like I could have got a better camera than the Nikon D80, and the kit lens was definitely too short for full-on safari work, but it still took some fantastic photos. Now it is time to update the firmware.

Gauss vs Pareto

Some interesting thinking from Hagel on the what might happen if the world we inhabit becomes more power law than normal distribution.

Trendy?

So I was just about to post about TrendHunter when Tom (who sits next to me, confusingly for the office) sent me Trendwatching. A trend or a craze?