Friday...

Shakespeare silliness and something a little more serious...

Follow your spirit, and, upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, Cairistiona and Saint George!

Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?

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It must have known this was my favorite work of Shakespeare. *g*

On a more serious note, I discovered that there's a way in which to help in regards to the missing jetliner. TOMNOD.com is a site that is crowdsourcing the search for the plane. You can go to the site, and after the satellite map of part of the search area loads, search grid by grid for anything that might be the plane or a part of the plane, or a life raft, or an oil slick, or anything that looks unusual. I spent a couple of hours today going over about 300 image sections. I only found three items to tag--they were a cluster of bright white spots that looked brighter than wavecaps but not like a whale or a ship or fishing boat. Mostly I was struck by just how huge the area is. They're now saying the plane may have gone on flying for 4 hours after it disappeared, so the search radius is just enormous (2500 miles). What the people behind TOMNOD are hoping is that with literally millions of people checking the satellite photos, someone might spot something that will help locate the plane. There's some differences of opinion whether such crowdsourcing efforts are worth it, but it does help me feel like perhaps I've helped a little. The site is a little slow and sometimes gets overloaded, but once you get the map image loaded, it's a simple enough thing to tag anything you spot. (There's apparently some sort of algorithm that compiles those tags that are most used and compiles the data for the proper authorities.)

The site occasionally goes down while they upload new maps, so if you can't access it, try again in an hour.