Pictures of the day: 2 February 2010 - Telegraph
A powerful outburst of auroras over the open sea at Eggum on the Lofoten islands in Norway. Picture by Bjorn Jorgensen
8 minutes on Obama’s first year, by Lawrence Lessig:
An analysis of what’s really accounts for the failures of this past year, and why regardless of your politics, you should be pushing for real change.
(via dalasverdugo, everyone)
Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. Due to problems with distraction, the cat’s sense of hunger had to be addressed in another operation. Surgical and training expenses are thought to have amounted to over $20 million. The first cat mission was eavesdropping on two men in a park outside the Soviet compound on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately. Shortly thereafter the project was considered a failure and declared to be a total loss.[citation needed]
— Wikipedia: Acoustic Kitty (via tmblg)
jQuery 1.4 Released →
Highlights include siginificant performance improvements, per-property easing, better support for live events, and plenty of new methods (including a native
delay()).
Merry Christmas from Santa Clause!
It’s actually the way more awesome Sinterklaas not Santa Claus.
Photograph by Marta Černická. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
Get a RSS feed from your Myspace Events →
I made a website for getting a RSS feed from Myspace events. I’ve always want to use the shows posted on myspace on my own band website, but Myspace doesn’t support RSS feeds.
The particular setup for this was sound activated. The lens was destroyed (worth it of course) but the camera survived this one despite being severed from its ratchet straps and thrown to the ground, and the sound device used for this one disconnected from the camera and thrown about 200 feet backwards into the pad perimeter fence (still worked!). All settings are preset manually. No one is allowed closer than several miles from a launch.
wow.
