Fark.com reports that a group of people in San Francisco have started a petition to, well… I’ll quote them.
Kennedy had a stadium named after him. Reagan has an airport. Where will George W. Bush have his name emblazoned? In San Francisco, it looks like that honor will go to a sewage plant.
Of course, my understanding is that this is just something one group is proposing, versus a city initiative.
A cool map of lightning frequency over time across the globe. And a live version for the U.S. Heck, a zoomed-in version on the Northeast for the past 60 minutes. It turns out that you can even buy a small Lightning Detector to map local lightning strikes on your PC. It listens for the signature static crashes from lightning, sometimes called sferics (short for atmospheric noise), much like you can hear on an AM radio during a storm. You can even listen to streaming audio from NASA‘s (Alabama) VLF receiver.
It seems that the strong wind today, April 1st, has caused this server to serve posts with some of the letters upside down! We are aware of the problem and looking into it. Expect it to be resolved around the conclusion of April Fools Day. In the interim, you can click through to the actual post, which isn’t affected by this strange bug.