NASA sent a couple of small robots - a Mars Rover - to Mars some years ago (more info here). I just thought this was such a cute comic :)


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I had to laugh when I saw this xkcd cartoon - it's quite true ;)

Tech Support Cheat Sheet: http://xkcd.com/627/

I propose a great cheer and "Happy Birthday!" to one of the great scientists who made it possible for us to connect today - you owe him your everyday electricity :) 
To Hans Christian Ørsted !!

A DJWearworm has produced a brilliant, brilliant mashup of 9(!) of Annie Lennox' songs: Backwards/Forwards

Don't know who did the video, but it's amazing how well the cuts work together - and it looks great! I even noticed a few frames from old Eurythmics videos.

Youtube link (High Quality)

Annie Lennox' Youtube channel

Click to view

Now I want the song on my mp3 ( Read more... )

R.I.P.

Technics Stereo Receiver SA-160

* 1988   -  † July 2009

Following a short illness, my old faithful stereo receiver passed away this afternoon.

Classic. Pop. Jazz. Rock.
Music flowing like a stream-
It has now run dry

You will be missed.
Ea

So, what should I buy now? I've been looking at this for a while:
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Sita Sings the Blues is a charming, pretty, delightful, fun, animated version of the ancient Indian epic tale of Ramayana, about Rama's wife Sita, and the trials she go through - and set to 1920's jazz songs by Annette Hanshaw. It's one of the most visually creative animated films I have seen in a long time, and the animator gets more out of the 2D ( Read more... )

Funny article about the need to (pretend to) be well read in sci-fi and fanatasy, by Jason Henninger at tor.com

Excerpt:
"...
Since the day Shakespeare ghostwrote the Bible for King James, we Anglophones have regarded reading as big stuff. But there’s no way you can read everything. Scientists calculate that it would take twelve hundred clones of ( Read more... )

Now I've also sorted and edited the Iceland photos. I ended up dividing them into three sections; nature, culture and 'flora & fauna' as that made more sense than a completely chronological sequence.

Nature
Flora & Fauna
Culture

We brought the car on the ferry, which lands at Seydisfjördur on the East coast. From there, we drove around Iceland clock ( Read more... )

Got the Faeroe Islands photo album sorted now: Faeroe Islands, June 2009

The whole trip was a sort of round trip; sailing by ferry from Denmark to the Faeroe Islands**  (30 hours), staying there for three nights, and then on to Iceland (another overnight ferry trip), where we drove around in seven days. All in all, it took two weeks. I think I could ( Read more... )

Back home again - after 3 days on the Faeroe Islands and 7 days in Iceland - with lots and lots of photos that now needs sorting. I'm going to make a proper (and not too extensive ;) 'Net album, but here's a preview.

It was a great trip, and I saw a lot. The Faeroe Islands is a small, pretty country, and Iceland is large and dramatic and quite ( Read more... )