Shaving tips for the shaving cynic from M. Mosher, a user on Plastic. For example, "Grip your razor like it's a delicate feather, not like you'd grip a screwdiver or a putty knife." The title of the original thread is "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades," a reference to The Onion's prescient parody editorial of the same name.

According to this chart from the Economist a Singularity is approaching with razor blade technology. In a couple years, based on Moore's Law, we will have millions of nano-blades on one razor.

One Year Ago, Glenn Reynolds opened a can of worms when he discussed the topic of shaving on his popular libertarian-leaning blog Instapundit. All of a sudden, "lurkers" came out of the woodwork and e-mailed in with their input. This conjures up images of macho, silent-type libertarians getting all bent out of shape when such a weighty topic as shaving comes along.

Most web users are "silent surfers", lurking in front of conversations unfolding online, but not participating themselves.

Dr. Suler provides a fairly thick Psychology of Cyberspace which includes perspectives such as "the online disinhibition effect" or how cyberspace functions as a "dreamworld." IM conversations, for example, take on a solipsistic character.

kuro5hin tackles Geographical illiteracy in Travel and the Dearth of Geographical Education in America. Less than 20% of U.S. citizens have passports, and only half of 18-24-year-olds can locate New York State.

You are a spy satellite now. Download diagram overlays of Iran's Nuclear Site. Requires you have Google Earth installed.

This nuclear 'bunker buster' flash animation, from the Union of Concern Scientists, explains how effective the supposed U.S. plan to surgically strike out Iran's nuclear facilities would be.

A Comparison of Mapping Services by Techcrunch looks at the finer differences between Ask Maps, Google Maps, MapQuest, Windows Live Local, and Yahoo Maps Beta. I use Google Maps out of habit, but maybe it's time to check something else out.

In the latest New Yorker, Nick Paumgarten tours the science of driving directions. Nick rides shotgun with employees from Navteq as they map out New York. "A map is a piece of art. It is also a form of language—a rendering of information. A good map can occupy the eye and the mind longer than almost any other single page of data, including Scripture, poetry, sheet music, and baseball box scores. A map contains multitudes."

Earthcam is a portal of webcams from around the world. Their World Map Interface is particularly useful. Here's the weather in Shanghai right now.