The defacto standard for medium format cameras is the Hasselblad. So it shouldn’t be surprising that NASA turned to them. But the article is an intesting adn sometimes indepth look at how they where used.
The date was 20 July 1969. It is already a quarter of a century ago. Most middleaged people still remember exactly [...]
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Nvidia hired Jaimie and Adam from Mythbusters to explain the difference between a CPU and a GPU. In it they used a paintball gun (computer controlled) to paint a face. That in itself sounds cool… but the monster they created to compare to a GPU “painted” the Mona Lisa within milliseconds.
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I had read with interest about a kid and his family fighting a speeding ticket by proving with a GPS they had mounted on his car that he was wrongly ticketed.
What started out as a simple disputed speeding ticket has blossomed into a full-scale trial in Sonoma County Superior Court, costing both sides thousands of [...]
The BIGGEST DRAWING IN THE WORLD is a self portrait. A lot of work and cooperation from hundreds of people allowed an artist to create an amazing piece of work.
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A gang of Swedish criminals was seconds away from completing a digital bank heist when an alert employee literally pulled the plug on their brazen scam, investigators said Wednesday.The would be bank robbers had placed “advanced technical equipment” under the employee’s desk that allowed them to take control of his computer remotely, prosecutor Thomas Balter [...]
I love Seagate. They just sent me a stack of terabyte drives and they aren’t even my sponsor anymore.
[Twitter / Scobleizer]
Companies love advertising, even sometimes bad advertising. But in this case, they are getting a lot of bang for their buck… Especially if Robert Scoble likes the drives. And here I figured Western Digital would [...]
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I was trolling along and I read a couple stories of servers that end up being forgotten. And I thought I’d share.
Server 54, Where Are You?
The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn’t missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, [...]
I was reading an article on Musical Independece Revolution about how a number of bands are skipping past the record labels and selling directly to the fans. Basically doing what has been said they need to do for decades now.
Looks like Radiohead’s latest independent approach to album promotion and sales, basically giving away [...]
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In time for the holidays, Verizon Wireless is launching a cell phone that looks a lot like the hottest phone so far this year: Apple Inc.’s iPhone.Like the iPhone, the LG Voyager features a large touch screen, a camera and extensive multimedia, Web browsing and e-mail capabilities.However, it one-ups the iPhone by folding open lengthwise [...]
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iRobot Alliance? An earlier reported alliance with Taser and iRobot has come up with Number 5… I mean a robot that can be used to deal with even the biggest and meanest of people. A cool little video is available that shows off their little bastard child merging of the two. Its [...]
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