(Or, rather, their advertising agency does.) Sony has come up with a series of intriguing adverts for their cameras and televisions. Their latest effort departed from their previous emphasis on colors to submerge part of Miami in a sea of white bubbles! Looks like a lot of fun was had by all. Here’s the finished… Continue reading Sony does it again
Tag: Technology
A dumb move indeed
Tam blogs about Microsoft’s dumb move in axing Windows XP. She reports only 3% of a sample of 100 viewers of her blog were using Windows Vista, its putative replacement. I was curious, so I took a similar snapshot of this blog’s readers this afternoon. I guess my viewers are even less enthusiastic about Vista… Continue reading A dumb move indeed
The strange hidden beauty of computer viruses
I have to admit, this guy fascinates me. From his Web site: Alex Dragulescu is a Romanian visual artist whose practice embraces both traditional and new media. His projects are experiments and explorations of algorithms, computational models, simulations and information visualizations that involve data derived from databases, spam emails, blogs and video game assets. He’s… Continue reading The strange hidden beauty of computer viruses
Militants, mosques and minarets
I heard from a buddy in the sandbox today. He’s with the Marines, and he confirms something I asked him about earlier. He says that very often insurgent snipers will take up position in the minarets and towers of local mosques to shoot at US forces. This is all too often counter-productive (for the sniper,… Continue reading Militants, mosques and minarets
“Was Blind, But Now I See . . . “
Here’s a pretty amazing story from Scotland. In 1941 John Gray was standing duty as a firewatcher in Glasgow during a major Luftwaffe air raid on the Clydeside industrial area. The last thing he remembers of that night was some glass shattering. ” . . . that was the last thing I heard until I… Continue reading “Was Blind, But Now I See . . . “
A space probe to the sun?
Courtesy of William The Coroner, we’re directed to this article in Air & Space Magazine. It seems that NASA is at last considering sending a space probe to the Sun to analyze its corona and outer layers. By “slingshotting” it around planets it would make ten or eleven “close” passes to the Sun, radioing back… Continue reading A space probe to the sun?
Making a burger – the complicated way
The 2008 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest was held today at Purdue University. Teams had to assemble a burger consisting of a precooked meat patty, two condiments and two vegetables, all placed between two bun halves. They had to do so using as many steps and as much complexity as possible, in the true tradition of… Continue reading Making a burger – the complicated way
50,000 and counting!
During the small hours of this morning (local time) my 50,000th visitor arrived. That makes me very happy, given that this blog is less than 100 days old. He or she is in Botswana, a country I know and love. Botswana has some of the most beautiful natural scenery and abundant wildlife anywhere on the… Continue reading 50,000 and counting!
The 101 most useful Web sites – for Britons, anyway.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London, UK has published a list of the 101 most useful Web sites. It’s weighted towards British readers, of course, but there are some interesting entries: Only Two Clicks: Sets up your bookmarks online so that you can access them anywhere from any computer. DaFont: 7,500 free fonts for your… Continue reading The 101 most useful Web sites – for Britons, anyway.
Amazing photographs of Mars
The European Space Agency launched its Mars Express mission in 2003, with the spacecraft entering orbit around Mars on Christmas Day that year. Its landing component, Beagle, unfortunately malfunctioned, but the Express orbiter completed a Martian year in orbit (its planned life cycle) in 2005. The ESA subsequently decided to keep it in operation for… Continue reading Amazing photographs of Mars