Archive for July, 2005
links for 2005-07-21
Google Moon. Google Maps interface goes to Luna, with Apollo site markers. Fandom Wank roundup of outrage over Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Lots of spoilers and such, so caveat lector. (tags: books fun culture) Basic WordPress Theme. Nice, bare-bones template from which to build other themes. (tags: wordpress) NASA plans Tuesday launch pending [...]
Scotty Gets Beamed Up
James Doohan has passed away. Doohan played Enterprise’s Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, and was my original inspiration for learning to mimic Scottish accents. Bit of trivia: Doohan was a captain in the Royal Canadian Artillery, and fought in the invasion of Normandy in WWII, where three bullets destroyed the middle finger of [...]
links for 2005-07-20
The Perfect 404: A List Apart (tags: markup) Photos and a history of Old Penn Station, New York. From New York Architecture Images. (tags: nyc history) New Penn Station Coming? (tags: nyc) Photos of Mammatus Clouds over Hastings, Nebraska. “Mamma” protrusions are caused by cold air being drawn into a lower, warmer layer by localized [...]
Harry Potter Spoilers
Update, 2007: You may also be interested in my OMG EXCLUSIVE DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILERS!!! JINKIES!!! Stop reading if you haven’t finished Half-Blood Prince! STOP! So now that Harry knows that Tom Riddle is (was?) James Potter, how will Harry deal with the fact that Voldemort is his father? (That is, after that agonized yell when [...]
links for 2005-07-19
PhpGedView – PHP genealogy app. (tags: family php software) The Medieval Bestiary. Animals of the Middle Ages, fictional and real. (tags: animals history) The Real History of the Crusades. A Crusade historian attempts to set the record straight. (tags: faith history) Nilagang Manok. From Pinoycook.net (tags: food philippines) Capturing the Unicorn. Mathematics helps photograph and [...]
The Cloisters
I was up in NJ/NY for the weekend, and Amy and I checked out The Cloisters, the Met’s medieval art branch in Fort Tryon Park, Upper Manhattan. Being medieval art and history enthusiasts, we were fairly impressed with the collection at The Cloisters: artifacts and architecture from 11th to 16th Century Europe, all well-preserved and [...]
Deep Impact at Tempel 1: Nought But Dust?
It seems that Deep Impact‘s impact may not have been as deep as first thought. Recent observations of target comet Tempel 1 show lots of fine powder in the impact plume, and not as much rock and ice as astronomers expected. This most likely means that not a lot of underground comet material was excavated [...]
Cassini Enceladus Flyby
While recent manned spaceflight news has been somewhat disappointing, exciting things are still happening with robotic probes in deeper space. Saturn probe Cassini did its closest pass yet at Enceladus yesterday, one of the stranger moons in the Saturn system. The bright white surface of Enceladus, mostly coated with clean water ice, is smoother and [...]
Discovery Launch Scrubbed
America’s walk-on-eggshells return to manned spaceflight proved to be an anticlimactic disappointment yesterday, with the Space Shuttle Discovery’s launch being scrubbed due to faulty fuel sensors. (No, it was not the falling window cover that did it.) The sensors monitor propellant levels at the bottom of the external fuel tank during launch, signalling the need [...]
links for 2005-07-14
INTP Profile. That’s me to a T. An INTP. (tags: psychology) Tundra Comics. Wilderness fun from Alaska. (tags: webcomics) Spaceflight Now – STS-114 Shuttle Report – Fuel sensor glitch forces launch scrub. Sigh. (tags: space news) Planarity: arrange the edges such that no edges overlap. Deceptively simple, incredibly challenging mind game. Wow. (tags: flash games) [...]