Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
NASA's International Space Station was in the right place at the right time as it took this amazing
photograph of a volcanic eruption in progress :
A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. There is some controversy over whether a shockwave from the eruption punched a hole in the cloud deck; several other theories are offered in the link. Personally, I like that explanation best because it's the coolest sounding... ;-)
Super Hornet 5 [Flickr]
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 07:53 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
As the Super Hornet makes its fast pass, it hits transonic speeds, evidenced by the shock waves forming on the leading edges of the wings, engine intakes, and other parts of the fuselage. Awesome!
All about Firefox 3.5, available now [Mozilla Links]
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 06:22 PM PDT
Spezify
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 12:48 PM PDT
"Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways." Pretty slick...
No Machine Can Do My Job As Resentfully As I Can [The Onion]
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 12:38 PM PDT
Hilarious and right on the money... :-)
State Supreme Court rules for Franken, 5-0
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 12:34 PM PDT
Sweet!
Scour - Search Socially
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 10:31 AM PDT
Combines search results from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft
Blinkx
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 08:51 AM PDT
Pretty nice video search engine
Kosmix: The web organized for you
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 08:50 AM PDT
Very slick search engine; presents loads of options, multimedia, and more.
Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google [Wired.com]
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 08:47 AM PDT
There, I Fixed It.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 07:57 AM PDT
Photoblog of some pretty crappy homemade kludges...
Recent scenes from the ISS [The Big Picture]
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 07:55 AM PDT
Some great photos from the International Space Station...
Monday, June 29, 2009
Eclectic Method 's Michael Jackson video mix
Long Live The King is very impressive.
Sorry Star Wars fans, but Ghostbusters is the best film ever made [Times Online]
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:02 PM PDT
There are some good points here, but I don't know...
The Best Music Video Michael Jackson Ever Released [Anil Dash]
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:01 PM PDT
Anil Dash contends that it's "Who Is I," directed by David Fincher before he hit it big as a movie director
Sax Solos
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:54 PM PDT
a review of sax solos in 80s songs; pretty funny (and very thorough!)...
Microsoft Typography - Font properties extension
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:36 PM PDT
allows you to see many font properties when you right click and examine font file properties
Super Hornet 3 [Flickr]
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
The Hornet maneuvers while at high alpha and its gear down.
Super Hornet 8 [Flickr]
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
Vortices form off the wing strake and wing tips as the Super Hornet pulls some g's.
Super Hornet 7 [Flickr]
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
The Super Hornet makes a slow, dirty pass with its landing gear and tail hook down.
Super Hornet 6 [Flickr]
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT
Super Hornet 1 [Flickr]
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:14 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
The F/A-18F Super Hornet immediately goes vertical after takeoff.
Perfect French Fries [Serious Eats]
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 02:30 PM PDT
Eclectic Method - Long Live The King (Michael Jackson Mix) [Vimeo]
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:21 AM PDT
Sunday, June 28, 2009
YouTube user meliberty makes some great '80s compilation videos, so I was quite happy to see that he put together a
video tribute to the King of Pop .
Saturday, June 27, 2009
"The
Architects' Journal selects the most important buildings from a galaxy far, far away" in
The architecture of Star Wars .
Friday, June 26, 2009
LiquidGenerationTube bets "you didn't think it was possible to fit the 100 greatest movie lines into 200 hundred seconds. We've got
the video to prove you wrong."
NYNEX, Embedded Angel of New York City [BLDGBLOG]
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 04:28 PM PDT
Very cool idea for a Ghostbusters movie script...
7 great places to work - New Belgium Brewing
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 04:25 PM PDT
Fat Tire is one of my all-time favorites, and now I have even more reason to like it. Rumor has it that we'll finally see Fat Tire on the East Coast soon... :-)
The Ultimate Spy Plane [Smithsonian Magazine]
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 04:06 PM PDT
The Blackbird is awesome.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
This
Michael Jackson Pepsi (?) commercial is all the more poignant now... :-(
Michael Jackson - (Pepsi?)commercial - I'll Be There [YouTube]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 07:48 PM PDT
Bill Stein [Flickr]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
Bill Stein of the Collaborators taxis his Edge 540.
Eric Tucker [Flickr]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
Eric Tucker of the Collaborators taxis his Extra 300L.
Ben Freelove [Flickr]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
Ben Freelove of the Collaborators taxis his Extra 300L.
Sean Tucker 2 [Flickr]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
Sean Tucker of the Collaborators taxis his Challenger biplane.
Watch Trailers on YouTube
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:47 PM PDT
The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time [IFC.com]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 04:40 PM PDT
Michael Jackson [Wikipedia]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:40 PM PDT
Michael Jackson dies at 50 [CNN.com]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:39 PM PDT
Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things. [flickr]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 10:52 AM PDT
Fairly sexist vintage VW ad
RESURCH+ORG
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 10:10 AM PDT
Summer Drinks Issue - A Guide to Bartending When the Frost is on the Glass [NYTimes.com]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 10:07 AM PDT
Social Network Icon Pack [Komodo Media]
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 09:37 AM PDT
Google City Tours
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 09:36 AM PDT
beautiful fonts with @font-face at hacks.mozilla.org
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 08:58 AM PDT
Version 3.5 (RC3 out today) now supports CSS @font-face, which means that web developers can specify which font(s) they want a web site to display.
Palin hits back at "malicious" photo
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 08:41 AM PDT
She seriously needs to just STFU.
Michael Jackson died today from cardiac arrest at the age of 50 . Although I had heard that he was in bad health, I'm quite shocked to hear this.
Although
Michael Jackson was an iconic influence for me in the '70s and '80s, I don't know if I'll ever be able to get past how messed up he became. Nevertheless, I'm going to try and remember him during the peak of his career, from the time frame the above albums were around.
Between this and
Farrah Fawcett's passing (and I almost forgot to mention
Ed McMahon ), I'm pretty bummed... :-(
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Dan Meth's
Futuristic Movie Timeline is pretty cool...
Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About [freewaregenius.com]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 05:27 PM PDT
Collaborators 2 [Flickr]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
I was really impressed with the Collaborators, a relatively new team that is even more impressive considering that different types of aircraft are flown.
Collaborators 6 [Flickr]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT
Collaborators 5 [Flickr]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT
Collaborators 3 [Flickr]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT
Collaborators 1 [Flickr]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT
Remove the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce) Firefox Extension [Annoyances.org]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:12 PM PDT
That I have to go through this reinforces my view of Micro$oft...
Digsby Blog ยป Build 60 - Faster than a Speeding Bullet!
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:52 PM PDT
Disgby is a really nice free IM aggregator: Facebook, Google Talk, Twitter, GMail, and more are supported...
Oscar expands best pic noms to 10 [Variety]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:42 PM PDT
"The Motion Picture Academy announced Wednesday that for the first time in more than 65 years, the field of best picture nominees will be expanded to 10 contenders for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards."
7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics [Cracked.com]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:19 AM PDT
NASA Volcano Image Shows Atmospheric Shockwave - geophysics [io9]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:16 AM PDT
So, you want to be a Gmail ninja? [Official Gmail Blog]
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:16 AM PDT
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
TheDieline.com posts about
Samurai Vodka . What a cool bottle design...
Thunderbirds 17 [Flickr]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:06 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
One of the Thunderbirds pilots signals to the crowd.
Thunderbirds 16 [Flickr]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:06 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
The Thunderbirds taxi back after their flight.
Thunderbirds 15 [Flickr]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:06 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
Note the vortices visible in the tire smoke.
Thunderbirds 14 [Flickr]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:06 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
Thunderbirds 2 touches down.
Thunderbirds 13 [Flickr]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:05 PM PDT
driko posted a photo:
Break!
Matt Kloskowski Training
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 06:02 PM PDT
Photographer Evolution
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:57 PM PDT
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Madoff's lawyer requests 12-year sentence [CNN]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 08:56 AM PDT
"effective life sentence" my ass...
Ed McMahon dies at 86 [CNN.com]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 08:37 AM PDT
Verizon, T-Mobile plan Android phones by year's end [ZDNet.com]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:20 AM PDT
Sweet!
Nine Killed in Red Line Crash [washingtonpost.com]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:11 AM PDT
Scary...
How to find out "What's here" [Google LatLong]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:09 AM PDT
New feature in Google Maps sounds useful...
Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features [Lifehacker]
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:07 AM PDT
Monday, June 22, 2009
This recent wallpaper from
National Geographic depicts an amazing scene...
Story That Takes 1,000 Years to Read Is Antidote to Media Whirlwind [Wired.com]
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 03:39 PM PDT
"San Francisco conceptual artist and journalist Jonathon Keats is trying to rejuvenate literature in the age of hyperspeed media by writing a story that will take a millennium to tell. "
Flip Flop Fly Ball
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 03:38 PM PDT
"A love of baseball plus a love of infographics equals Flip Flop Fly Ball."
Chronicling America [The Library of Congress]
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 11:24 AM PDT
"enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present."
WALL-E end title sequence + Jim Capobianco & Alex Woo interview [The Art of the Title Sequence]
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 11:22 AM PDT
"Jim Capobianco's end credits to Andrew Stanton's
WALL-E are essential; they are the actual ending of the film, a perfect and fantastically optimistic conclusion to a grand, if imperfect idea. Humanity's past and future evolution viewed through unspooling schools of art. Frame after frame sinks in as you smile self-consciously. It isn't supposed to be this good but there it is."
Inside the World's Greatest Keyboard [PC World]
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 05:37 AM PDT
"From the satisfying click of its keys to its no-nonsense layout and solid steel underpinnings, IBM's 24-year-old Model M is the standard by which all other keyboards must be judged."
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