Apple Inc. and Nine Inch Nails are providing a free iTunes stream of NIN’s newest album Hesitation Marks prior to its release. Click on the album art, it opens iTunes, and get it while it’s hot.
Nine Inch Nails “Hesitation Marks” Free Album Stream on iTunes
Yuri’s Night DC 2012 at Science Club
Yuri’s Night is an annual celebration on April 12th to honor Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, and to toast all those involved in making human spaceflight a reality. DC had several parties, these photos are from the Science Club party.
Typographic Anachronisms in Film – The Renaissance Anomaly
Do you notice the problems in the screenshot from Da Vinci’s Demons? A particularly interesting set of posts on Mark Simonson’s blog titled Son of Typecasting focuses on fonts used in film. Mark’s post Renaissance Anomaly stood out to me for pointing out the not-so-obvious errors in the image above.
Viewing NASA Launch the LADEE Mission to the Moon
If you live on the east coast of the United States there is a possibility on the night of September 6 you may see NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission launch out of Wallops Flight Facility.
The Future of Film – The Matrix Made in Source Filmmaker
Valve, creators of the Source game engine, recently released their machinima filmmaking tool Source Filmmaker (SFM). Mainstream releases of movies made with game engines is near. If you’ve caught Valve’s animated short…
Vintage 1977 NASA Video talks about Voyager 1
On September 12, 2013, NASA officially announced that Voyager 1 had left the solar system and begun it’s journey into interstellar space. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar medium. As of August 2013, it is 125 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun. One AU is equivalent to the average distance of the Earth to the Sun, roughly 145.5 billion miles. Voyager is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth.
As a throwback to the year Voyager 1 was launched, we found NASA’s Highlights of the 1977 Aeronautics and Space Report. The report outlines some of NASA’s projects at the time, including the Space Shuttle, Voyagers, Landsat, Spacelab, HEAO-1 and energy research.
How the “Mother of All Demos” Changed our Lives
I recently learned about a computer demonstration dubbed “The Mother of All Demos” given 40 years ago by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. Douglas showed off the NLS computer to a crowd of 1000 computer pros. The demo of this system given on December 9, 1968 is now considered one of the most important in modern computing history.
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