Diversity Data

Data on diversity and its acceptance represented graphically (via The Globe and Mail).

Douglas Trumbull

Douglas Trumbull[website](who's vast volume of work includes such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and 2001: A Space Odyssey) discusses some of the work that went into the opening sequences of Bladerunner.

UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger

The newest edition of UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger totes up 6,000 world languages — and counts 2,500 as endangered and 200 as completely lost. The interactive atlas ranks the 2,500 endangered languages by five levels of vitality: unsafe, definitely endangered, severely endangered, critically endangered and extinct.

Douglas Trumball discusses the creation of the opening scene of Bladerunner.

"All Who Wander Are Not Lost.."

An interactive map of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth

Audio Slideshow - Seeing Into Space

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich received hundreds of entries for its 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition..

David McCandless: The Beauty of Data Visualization

Hans Rosling Data Representation

Hans Rosling talks on Asia's rise and world population growth.
(More of his talks can be viewed at Ted)

Ash-Affected North American and European Flight Maps

Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull disrupts the skies over Europe.

Katsuura Photography

Surfer at Sunset




Beach Torii




Pillars and Footprints

Current Aquarium

I'm a big fan of Takashi Amano (wiki).
You can view some of his fishtanks here.
In the past I have kept many different types of aquatic and semi-aquatic animals:






Archerfish
(genus Toxotes)


















Red-Eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

















Firebelly Newt
(Cynops orientalis)


















In Japan, my apartment is very small. Since moving to Japan I've only been able keep one 10-gallon freshwater aquarium (which I keep half filled on the floor in case an earthquake cracks the glass) as opposed to multiple tanks as large as 40 gallons in size.

What's currently in my aquarium:







Cardinal tetra Paracheirodon axelrodi








Ghost Shrimp genus Palaemonetes










Moss Balls 毬藻 marimo









Philodendron　genus Philodendron