Wednesdays Wanderings around the Web (1 Oct Edition)

From the BBC: James May, from Top Gear, and an Ekranoplan! The Caspian Sea Monster! And May gets to drive one. More information on ekranoplans.

A new way to view flickr images: Tag Galaxy. Go and give it a try, Dragoncon is a great search seed.

Ancient yeast reborn in modern beer, says it all really.

Explaining the current financial crisis

A useful article from Reason, The Roots of the Crisis: How did Wall Street get into this mess? At last, a clear and readable description of what happened (and why it is not as bad as some people want you to believe).