Somali pirates? These guys are everywhere nowadays. Well, mostly off the coast of Somalia, but you know, like, in news media. So what’s the deal?

In the year 2050 there will be an estimated nine billion people in the world. (9,309,051,539 according to the US Census Bureau. (We’ll see how well that plays out. (Oh, well.))) 80% of these 9,309,051,539 (7,447,241,231.2?) are projected to be living in urban centers. If farming is to continue being practiced in traditional fashion, 10⁹ hectares of new land is estimated required to grow sufficient food to sustain the people. That is a land mass of 20 percent more than what makes up the country of Brazil. Oh, and it seems 80 percent of the earth’s land suitable for farming is presently in use.

Having had an exponential growth over the past few years, Mozilla’s Firefox has gained the largest percentage of web browser users in Europe for the first time. Well, just about, anyway, according to web analytics Statcounter.

Funny-man Ursus Wehrli delivers an amusing talk on deconstructing paintings for them to fit his idea of orderly art. He authored the book Tidying Up Art, a proclamation of his vision for modern art to be clean, organized and more rational. Organizing component parts of paintings into groups based on colour and size, he offers a skewed look on art and creates pieces with interesting imagery in their own right.

The Internet has marked a major development in information availability and the possibilities of dealing with this information. There are online news, blogs, videos and other outlets detailing an awful lot on the happenings in the world. In a recent study, researchers at the Stockholm University and the University of East Anglia propose a system for monitoring information on the Internet to warn of environmental change.