Image Redirection
WordPress.com’s image hosting is on the fritz currently. Apparently they installed some sort of Magic 8-ball server to determine whether or not images should appear with posts.
Luckily, there are alternatives to hosting images. This seems to be the way to go.
International Space Station Sighting Opportunities
Over the next week or so, there will be a number of days and times that you’ll be able to spot the ISS cruising overhead.
San Luis Obispo sighting opportunities are here: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_States®ion=California&city=San_Luis_Obispo
Other countries and locations are available here: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/
It’s Tax Time
Rhett and Link have a suggestion on how to do your taxes.
Dwarf Fortress
Bay 12 Games has created a persistent world single-player fantasy game… all using ASCII. It seems like games nowadays are more focused on eye-candy rather than satisfying and deep gameplay. From this description, Dwarf Fortress sounds amazing:
Before playing your first game, you have to create the world. Most randomly generated worlds in current games run a quick process and usually within thirty seconds or so one is up and running. Not so with Dwarf Fortress. Creating an initial world can take up to fifteen minutes or more. Remember, this is a game that uses ASCII graphics…and it can take up to fifteen minutes…on current-day processors. This world is huge. Whenever was there a game that named close to every landmark above ground and below, populated it with thousands of creatures that each lived persistent lives, created a multi-civilized world history complete with back story, had dynamic weather with fronts and humidity, used a multi-currency economic system, and presented a rich ecosystem of seasons and wildlife?
Check out this review. Or better yet, play the game!
WiPeer, Wireless P2P Made Easy
When the 802.11 wifi protocol started to pick-up steam, I figured that setting up an ad-hoc, computer-to-computer network for easy file sharing and such would be a no-brainer. Boy was I wrong. Luckily, for us non-Network Admins, we have a free solution.
Katinka Matson, Digital Scanner Artist
The water-lily pictured above isn’t a photograph. It’s not a painting, either. It’s a scan.
Like the many people who xeroxed their body parts for fun, or used a copy machine for art, Matson discovered that the scanning eye stick was far better at depth that was assumed. More importantly as color scanning became cheap, and then became super hi-res, the final image of a quick scan had all the detail of a painting. She began composing cut flowers on a scanner bed and capturing the color images. So the images you see here were not photographed but scanned with an ordinary office scanner. The grace of the images is self-evident.
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