I've been hearing more and more that the Prius simply isn't the be-all and end-all that it was claimed to be, and Jeremy is not impressed either. I find his testing programme a little too rigorous however, but maybe that's just me.

Aaron Koblin of Design|Media Arts, UCLA, has done a range of pretty awesome graphical depictions of U.S. air traffic flow data; this is a montage of scenes from several different ones. It's interesting... more inside