Archive for the ‘Bermuda’ Category

counting down to BIFF

Posted: March 9, 2009 in Bermuda, movies

One of my favourite weeks of the year – the Bermuda International Film Festival – is coming up March 20-28. Looks like another great lineup of features, documentaries, etc. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, but you can preview the full line up here.

$16,000 and counting!

Posted: March 6, 2009 in Bermuda, miscellany

A quick update on the planned charity head shave – Team Gibbons is now at a staggering $16,000 with matching corporate donations! Our target was $10,000 so we’ve blown that out of the water. Thank you so much to all of you who have donated so far. If you haven’t yet pledged  to see me, the wife and The Tobester get bald for Children’s Cancer Charity St Baldrick’s there’s still time,  so click over here. March 20 is the big day – a definite YouTube moment in the making …

Dive into Google Earth 5

Posted: February 3, 2009 in Bermuda, internet, media, Technology

Bermuda’s marine life gets a whole new world of exposure in the new beta version of Google Earth 5. Zoom into Bermuda and you’ll discover a wealth of new photos, information and video on Bermuda’s marine life, shipwrecks, William Beebe’s famous bathysphere dive, and more, like this cute video of a seahorse by Choy Aming.

Bermuda is one of 11 geographical locations highlighted in Google Earth’s new Ocean feature along with the Hawaiian Islands, the Great Barrier Reef, the Antarctic, the Arctic, the Patagonian Shelf, Monterey Bay, the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and global oceans. Google has teamed up with National Geographic, BBC Earth, Coustaeu Open World and others to provide some amazing tools like 3D maps of the ocean floor, animal tracking and where to find top surfing, kite surfing and dive spots.