Of Cats and memory cards
In retrospect, I should have used LOLcats photos as the metric. Photo scanned in from things on my desk (now less cluttered). Cats and memories (full size).
Potentially harmful asteroids
Very informative chart, but also very pretty. Image is from NASA. Potentially harmful asteroids (full size).
Real meaning of Bing
Yes, I know Microsoft’s explanation, but their explanation makes no sense at all. Real meaning of Bing (full size)
NOAA Patch and Coins
NOAA is the world’s leading publisher of original content on the Internet. Not collected from others, but direct publishing. Every day, NOAA instruments, programs, projects and people push a steady stream of environmental, technical and scientific information out to the Continue reading NOAA Patch and Coins
Great moments in blog spamming
One of the biggest problems with allowing comments on a blog is: robotic commenting. Otherwise known as: spam. Spammers are often thought of as “people,” but are most often robots. The robots search for sites to spam, large and small. Continue reading Great moments in blog spamming
CD-ROM retirement
Fact: you can get 24 CDs worth of information on a single 16 GB SD card; it would take just 8 such cards to store all the information on these CDs. Yes, these were my CDs (since recycled). CD-ROM retirement (full size)
Internet roadkill
Narwal evolution: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=478826628826445&set=a.430872626955179.92765.193162710726173 Mars, just add water: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/a-martian-dream-heres-what-the-red-planet-would-look-like-with-earth-like-oceans-and-life/266791/ Explaining economics: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2845 If you need content, but are bored with Lorum ipsum: http://www.rikeripsum.com/#/ipsum Speculations on storm trooper armor: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/282221985453445120 Colder than absolute zero: http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-zero-1.12146 The form of damnation: https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/286877379886977025 Grammar matters: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=531524520199876&set=a.158139670871698.33824.139729956046003&type=1&ref=nf Tolkien at 125: favorite quotes — http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/jrr-tolkien-quotes-our-fa_n_2398210.html Outstanding Continue reading Internet roadkill
Typographic map of the world
Textual mapping: flawed but still impressive — http://maphugger.com/post/38323044556/laconic-history-of-the-world-2012-my-first
Automatic translation
I was just alerted to a new site, ackuna.com, that is promoting their crowd-source translation capabilities by showing how bad machine translation can be. To illustrate this, you type in some text, and their “Bad Translator” feature runs it back Continue reading Automatic translation