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Apollo I

I missed the anniversary last week due to other time commitments, but here’s a suitably ethereal shot of the “monument” at Cape Canaveral’s LC-34:

January 30th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Miscellaneous | Comments are closed

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Three weeks in Iceland, as seen by my GPS unit:

January 29th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Meta, Miscellaneous, Useful Technology | Comments are closed

Nook vs. Kindle

I bought a Kindle back in September as a means of test-driving the e-book version of In the Shadow of Ares, mainly because I hadn’t thought much beyond Amazon when we decided to go the electronic route. I was aware that Barnes & Noble and Borders each had their own e-readers, but Kindle seemed to […]

January 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Entertainment, Useful Technology | Comments are closed

Science Eye-Candy

High-speed video of droplets of liquid nitrogen rolling across a hot surface, demonstrating something we’ve all seen while cooking but probably didn’t know had a name — the Leidenfrost Effect:

From Wikipedia:

The effect can be seen as drops of water are sprinkled into a pan at various times while it is heating up. […]

January 16th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Miscellaneous, Science & Engineering | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Strange Aerial Phenomenon

Now that I have a little bit more time available, I’ve been working again on the time-lapse videos from the Iceland trip last July. Have largely given up on ever getting the bumpy spots satisfactorily “deshaken” with the software tools available, but I did discover something that I completely missed at the time and in […]

January 15th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Meta | Comments are closed

“A Fount of Nonsense Who Exasperated Everyone He Talked To”

Dave “JournoList” Weigel digs around at AboveTopSecret and discovers what may be some postings from Jared Loughner, under the userid “Erad3”:

If the NASA Space Shuttle is able to reenter from the orbit of the Earth then the NASA Space Shuttle is able to reenter because of the heat of 1,500 °C. The NASA Space […]

January 13th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Miscellaneous, politics, PPC | Comments are closed