Damage Map; End of Days Procrastination Fun

Came across Damage Map today. I've been 'playing' with it for ages. It's so fucking cool.

Created by Gareth Collins, Robert Marcus and H. Jay Melosh at Imperial College London, it is, "an easy-to-use, interactive web site for estimating the regional environmental consequences of an impact on Earth. This program will estimate the ejecta distribution, ground shaking, atmospheric blast wave, and thermal effects of an impact as well as the size of the crater produced."

Yes please.

You choose your location of impact (either coordinates or from a list of cities), diameter, density, velocity, impact angle, and then the target type (rock, water etc). I chose London, diameter of 30m, density of 8000kg, velocity of 17km/s (the 'typical speed of impact'), and a 50° impact angle. This is what happened.

The crater!

The air blast.

The ejecta.

Seismic shaking.

Now excuse me while I up my density to 80,000, my diameter to 200m, and my angle of velocity to 90°.

Blood

Is it just me or is blood popping up everywhere these days?

The Social Blood initiative.

The wonderful Thicker than Blood by Saatchi & Saatchi.

The bloody stockings by Kiseung Lee which, while being purely conceptual (on show Helsinki Design Week) they were still hammering home the message of giving something a little more vital this year. 

Finally, this ad from Brazil, with the tagline, "If getting blood was this easy, we wouldn’t have to ask you to donate."

Blood giving is a little weird in Denmark.

"The Blood Banks in Denmark are regulated by Sundheds Styrelsen (Board of Health) under the Ministery of Health. They dictate that all blood donors must be able to read and speak Danish. The reason being, that all blood donors need to go through a written and oral interview in Danish. These regulations are meant to secure that blood donors understand all questions and are able to answer them correctly. They are also meant to prevent misunderstandings between the blood collecting staff and the donor. As the questions are of a personal matter, translators are not allowed. Any lack of understanding or misinformation may result in reduced safety both for the donor and for the recipients. It is therefore not allowed for the blood banks to make any exceptions. We are aware that many non Danish speaking people work and study in Denmark. Although we could use the blood, we are presently not able to include these individuals as donors. In case you stay in Denmark and do learn the Danish language, we naturally welcome you warmly as a donor."

Why not have an English speaking member of staff? Who knows.

Google Maps Indoors

The nice folk over at Google have come up with another handy tool, Google Maps - indoors! Pretty useful for airports and, well, I'm not sure what else, but apparently shopping malls are on the priority list over at Google. 

Pretty limited right now, I'm sure the list will grow. It'd be nice to see every (large) airport on the list, but honestl, I'm not sure what else needs to be.

Indoor Maps availability (love that IKEA is also on there):

United States

• Akron-Canton Airport (CAK)
• Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL)
• Boise International Airport (BOI)
• Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT)
• Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW)
• Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)
• Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL)
• George Bush Houston International Airport (IAH)
• Indianapolis International Airport (IND)
• Kansas City International Airport (MCI)
• Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL)
• Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS)
• Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)
• Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)
• Portland International Airport (PDX)
• San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
• Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)
• William P. Hobby Airport (HOU)
• DDR Corp. shopping centers in Puerto Rico, including Plaza del Atlántico in Arecibo, Plaza del Sol in Bayamon, Plaza Rio Hondo in Bayamon, Plaza del Norte in Hatillo, Plaza Palma Real in Humacao and Senorial Plaza in Rio Piedras
• Vallco Shopping mall in Cupertino, CA
• Brixmor Property Group including Eagle Rock Plaza in Los Angeles, CA
• Mall of America
• Macy's*
• Bloomingdale's*
• Home Depot*
• Ikea*

*Various locations

Japan

• Narita International Airport
• Haneda Airport, International Terminal
• Haneda Airport, Domestic Terminal
• JR East in Tokyo and Chiba (main stations)
• Tokyu Corporation (main stations)
• Tokyo Midtown
• Daimaru
• Matsuzakaya
• Tokyu
• Mitsukoshi
• Takashimaya
• Odakyu
• Isetan
• Keio
• Matsuya
• Seibu
• Tobu
• Printems Ginza
• Marui
• Marunouchi Building
• Shin-Marunouchi Building
• Marunouchi OAZO
• Marunouchi BRICK SQUARE
• TOKIA Tokyo Building
• Shibuya 109
• 109 MEN'S
• Miraikan
• Roppongi Hills
• Venus Fort
• Tokyu Hands Ikebukuro
• DECKS TOKYO BEACH
• remy gotanda
• LaLa port TOYOSU
• The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan)