Disco Justice

So, cancel already

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:53:03 +0000

Sometimes, if I upload a file on Dreamweaver, it doesn’t work. Usually, it’s because...

Swan footprints (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:32:19 +0000

Swan footprints (Taken with instagram)

I can’t feel my toes. Yay for hot chocolate. (Taken with...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:27:31 +0000

I can’t feel my toes. Yay for hot chocolate. (Taken with instagram)

When interfaces like this were wowing people in the early eighties, did anyone back then think that...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:01:00 +0000

When interfaces like this were wowing people in the early eighties, did anyone back then think that...

Handing in my gun and my badge

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:47:11 +0000

Last day of my job at Nutracheck today. Sad to be leaving, but also super-excited to be taking on a...

thisistheverge: Sadly, not the Verge command center. From Lost...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:23:00 +0000

thisistheverge:

Sadly, not the Verge command center. From Lost Bulgaria.com.

There is so much to love in this image. The hair. The chunky control panels. The fucking ceiling. Yes, this was a real place. This place, I think.

There’s not really a non-boring way of talking about this, so uh: you can still buy a 6502...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:20:10 +0000

There’s not really a non-boring way of talking about this, so uh: you can still buy a 6502...

Say my name

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:59:50 +0000

This is a sweary diatribe about my name. My name is Glenn. And yet, for some reason, people keep...

You're welcome

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:06:45 +0000

I just wrote a long post romanticising the car ferry journeys I used to go on as a child. I clicked...

rocketboom: Are you a Geek or a Nerd? This infographic from...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:12:00 +0000

rocketboom:

Are you a Geek or a Nerd? This infographic from Brandflakes for Breakfast will help you decide for yourself, regardless of what your older brother thinks.

I seem to fall exactly in the middle - I love and hate and do and don’t do stuff from either “camp”. This means I am a new, undefinable social class of human who is unique and special. Or a dork.

Wow, dork has several other meanings I was not aware of.

n-a-s-a: A Gravity Map of Earth Credit: JPL, NASA Haha,...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:23:04 +0000

n-a-s-a:

A Gravity Map of Earth

Credit: JPL, NASA

Haha, Earth’s gravity looks like a buttprint.

humans-in-space: In November, NASA launched the Mars Curiosity...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:45:34 +0000

humans-in-space:

In November, NASA launched the Mars Curiosity Rover, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). This video shows how it is going to gently touch down on the Martian surface. Curiosity is about the size of an SUV, so it needs a slightly gentler landing than Spirit and Opportunity’s slow bounce (which you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiEoGUHEobo from 1m onwards).

Later today, MSL’s spacecraft will perform some engine burns to properly target Gale Crater, the rover’s landing site.

It never ceases to amaze me - a spacecraft is lining up to hit a target 8 months away on a planet that’s still a full quarter of its orbit away from being in the right place. And it’s spinning, just like Earth, where it was launched from. I know, at the end of the day, it’s just maths, and the movement of the planets is entirely predictable, but I’m still impressed that all these factors can be taken into account and turned into a workable flight plan just from observations of the planets taken from Earth’s surface, while both planets are spinning and orbiting another, third body, at different speeds. And with different gravitational pulls.

Attempts to target other planets were being made alongside the first human beings going into space. Before any human eyes had been up there, just to check and say “yup, it’s what we thought”, primitive automated probes were already going much farther (with varied success!)

weandthecolor: Illustration by Troy Galluzzi. More inspiring...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:55:10 +0000

weandthecolor:

Illustration

by Troy Galluzzi.

More inspiring illustrations.

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Is that… David Karp?

Too much information

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:24:30 +0000

I’m getting to grips with Java and just did a quick Google search to find out how to get a...

2012, I am in you

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:07:11 +0000

I hate the idea of New Year’s resolutions. As if I have to wait until 1st January to start...

Watching Captain America

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:25:09 +0000

Matt: Did he say "vaginal line"? Mike: *sigh* "Maginot line"

Settlers of Catan box with a cat settled in it. (Taken with...

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:34:26 +0000

Settlers of Catan box with a cat settled in it. (Taken with instagram)

Lego is for girls

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:23:20 +0000

Lego is for girls: How do you market Lego to girls? Lego itself is historically bad at it, but now...

Lenticular clouds

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:18:00 +0000

BBC has some nice photos of lenticular clouds. But that’s not why I’m posting. I’m...

Life at 33.6kbps

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:29:00 +0000

The average webpage is now almost a megabyte in size. Back in what I hate to refer to as “the...