Via tingilinde:
A movie of the January 15 Stardust re-entry.
Movie taken from a NASA DC-8 aircraft as the Stardust sample return capsule entered the atmosphere in the early morning hours of Jan. 15, 2006.
This video is much cooler than the nothing I saw when I tried to watch the Stardust re-entry from bright, bright [...]
Don Norman’s Design as Practiced describes some of the process and problems around redesigning the way Macs are turned on and off.
(Via BeatnikPad)
It always fascinates me to see a description of all the forces that end up affecting a seemingly relatively simple thing as standardizing how a machine should be turned on and off. [...]
MSR Group Shot is neat. I used it to assemble a Christmas family shot where everyone was smiling and looking at the camera.
The MSR page also links to the Interactive Digital Photomontage paper that Group Shot is based on, including a bunch of GPL, cross-platform software to play with. [...]
This morning I read a message saying that a 9am meeting for January 20 was cancelled. I didn’t make the connection that January 20th is today until I dialed into the conference bridge and nobody was there. Time flies, I guess.
The end of the year is always busy and usually involves [...]
I don’t remember what I was searching for. Somehow, I stumbled upon Radio News on Radio Days, which has a collection of Creative Commons-NC/ND-licensed recordings of old radio broadcasts, including Edward R. Murrow’s Orchestrated Hell broadcast of December 3, 1943.
I had never heard such extended recordings from this time [...]
A year is a long time … and not long at all.