Wanna see the International Space Station?
Wanna see the International Space Station as it passes overhead? Heavens Above can tell you when it (and lots of other satellites) will be visible from your location. Here’s when it will be passing above my location. The also generate a wide range of charts and data for the sun, moon, planets, comets, etc.
A Good Month
Michele has had a good month. The Photograph won “Best of Show” in the Alaska Watercolor Society Statewide Juried Exhibition, Onions and Garlic was selected as a finalist in the Artist’s Magazine 2000 Annual Art Competition, and The Long Journey was accepted in the Watercolor West annual exhibition.
5000 Units
Early this morning, I completed my 5000th SETI@home work unit!
3M
Once upon a time, a company called 3M made only sandpaper. Then in the early 1920’s Dick Drew invented masking tape and a few years later cellophane tape. In 1980 a guy named Art Fry invented Post-it Notes®. I would love to know how many of those have been sold! By the way, here’s the […]
Society for the Elimination of the Color Pumpkin from the Web
I guess the folks from the Society for the Elimination of the Color Pumpkin from the Web won’t be visiting my site…
The Answer Geek
I had never run across The Answer Geek at abcnews.com, but today I learned how gas pumps sense a full tank from him. The archives have other great tidbits like the secrets of salt curing and how dry cleaning works.
Supercomputers
I’ve always followed the progress of supercomputers beginning with the CDC 6600 (my first “real” computer was the CDC 6400 at the University of Washington) running up to 3 million instructions per second, so I found this announcement by IBM of their Blue Gene supercomputer that will be capable of one quadrillion (that’s 1,000,000,000,000,000) operations […]
Making the Macintosh
The Stanford University Library’s Making the Macintosh is an online project documenting the history of the Macintosh computer. There’s lots of info, photos and interviews documenting the development of the mouse, graphical user interface and software dating back to 1979.
Generic Artificial Consciousness
GAC (Generic Artificial Consciousness), the Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project, is the world’s first computer program to attempt to learn from the world wide community how to be artificially conscious. The project uses simple true/false questions to accumulate basic knowledge.
« go back