So you’ve never heard of the radio show “On the Media?” I seldom miss it and this week you might not want to miss it because it’s all about Facebook. Do you know about the country Facebookistan? Do you know what it can mean to corporations when you like their products? Hear the story about a woman who received a friend quest from someone who raped her a decade earlier (it helped her). What will be the legacy of Facebook? How long will it be around?

It’s an interesting collection of segments. Listen to it here.

Google Earth now has some great seafloor mapping which led some people to believe that the Lost City of Atlantis was located. P-shaw:

Some have speculated that these are the plow marks of seafloor farming by aliens. If there really are little green men hiding somewhere, the ocean’s not a bad place to do it. Mars, Venus, the moon, and even some asteroids are mapped at far higher resolution than our own oceans (the global map of Mars is about 250 times as accurate as the global map of our own ocean).

One theory that’s gained more traction is that these marks might be the ruins of the lost city of Atlantis. If that were the case, some of the city blocks would have to be over eight miles long – that’s about fifty times the size of a city block in New York City (if you zoom in and use the measurement tool in Google Earth, you can do this comparison yourself).

More here from the Google’s Blog.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released new high-detail images of the planet we love to call home:

“This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012,” said the space center in a released statement.

Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board and is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS which took the photos above.

Bad Lip Reading strikes again.

Go here for additional photos:

In all, more than one hundred towering tipuana trees line the road like a living colonnade, forming what some have called a ‘green tunnel’ over three city blocks. The quiet, shady street has long been a favorite among locals, but recently it garnered some broader acclaim.

Small theatres have a tough future ahead, one that will cause many of them to close up:

The movie industry has decided to completely switch from traditional 35-millimeter film prints to digital files in the next year, causing problems for small, locally owned and often historic theaters that can’t afford to buy new digital projectors.

Digital projectors cost at least $65,000, and that’s a lot of popcorn sales. Some communities have organized fund-raising drives to help “save the theatre” but for a community of this size, that’s a lot of fund raising.

I don’t hear much about Sarah Palin these days, but I followed a link to her Facebook page wher she was poo-pooing global warming because it was 20 below, which shouldn’t be too much of a surprise in an Alaskan winter. She included a photo of her nephew clearing snow while wearing a t-shirt and shorts. At 20 below? Is he a little addled? And then there’s this:

Even the Arctic had a notably warm year, with the 2011 temperature a record 2.2 degrees Celsius (4 degrees Fahrenheit) above the mean for 1951–80. Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost U.S. city, spent a record-breaking 86 consecutive days at or above freezing, far more than the previous record of 68 days set in 2009.

I’ve seen this tide in action. Amazing. I’ve read about a giant whirlpool in the bay. Frightening.