The other day I was going to delete around 3000 photos from my Flickr account, and because of that lousy Flash based manager it deleted way too many photos, basically it emptied my Flickr account..

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope..
(since flickr just states in  a support mail, what’s deleted is gone forever)

I’m currently thinking about my next move.. I might go for my 23hq.com account instead.. I the meantime I will be crying myself to sleep.

“The New York Times has up a lengthy profile of the Large Hadron Collider. The article covers the basics (size = 17 miles, cost = 8 billion, energy consumption = 14 trillon electron volts) and history but also provides interesting interviews of the scientists who work with the facility every day. The piece also goes into some detail on the expected experiments. ‘The physicists, wearing hardhats, kneepads and safety harnesses, are scrambling like Spiderman over this assembly, appropriately named Atlas, ducking under waterfalls of cables and tubes and crawling into hidden room-size cavities stuffed with electronics. They are getting ready to see the universe born again.’ There are photos, video and a nifty interactive graphic.“

• Slashdot | A Detailed Profile of the Hadron Super Collider

“BBC News has an article detailing NASA’s replacement for the much-loved Hubble telescope. The $4.5 billion telescope will be placed in orbit 1.5 million km from Earth and will be almost three times the size of the Hubble. It is set to launch in 2013. They also plan to service the Hubble in 2008.”

• Slashdot | Hubble Space Telescope Detects Ring of Dark Matter
• Slashdot | NASA Unveils Hubble’s Successor

My former boss at GBIF is taking on the role of Executive Director at the Encyclopedia of Life.

Matt clues us in to a project to compile everything known about all of Earth’s 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to the world. The effort is called the Encyclopedia of Life. It will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers. The site was unveiled today in Washington where the massive effort was announced by some of the world’s leading institutions. The project is expected to take about 10 years to complete; it starts out with committed funding for 1/4 of that.”

• Slashdot | Earth’s Species To Be Cataloged On the Web