Wired Science's World's Oldest Trees slideshow makes note of the Zoroastrian Sarv.

Wired writes: "This giant cypress lives in Abarkooh, Iran. The evergreen took root between 4,000 and 4,500 years ago, around the time that Stonehenge was being completed. It may be the oldest living thing in Asia, and is a national monument in Iran. The Zorastrian Sarv stands about 82 feet high and has a girth of 37.8 feet."

 

Look how beautiful this place is...

Look how beautiful this place is...

 

Remember when Neil deGrasse Tyson was on Jon Stewart and said that he gets hate mail from 6 year olds about Pluto? It looks like this:

Via Gizmodo.

It's a short peppy talk cheerleading the need for more open, standard-based data sets...

Geez, I should just turn this site into a Tumblr, since I have gotten into the habit of barely writing anything for each post. Here is an interesting post about how "0.999.... equals 1," which was on a recent hit on Digg, and reblogged all over the place.

 

Found via Consumerist.

I have been following the Rally Fighter for a while, it's a car which is built from a Creative Commons licensed design. Anyone can build it from the design, and "Local Motors," the company that started the project, expects buyers to contract local mechanics to build cars based on the open source plans. Learn more here. The car is a monster, video below:

Via neat-o-rama