15th
January
2004
A Sense of Scale
“A visual comparison of various distances.” Shows differences in size/distance of various things from protons to the Virgo galaxy cluster.
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“A visual comparison of various distances.” Shows differences in size/distance of various things from protons to the Virgo galaxy cluster.
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“In the summer of 2002, Joe McNally was waging a campaign. He wanted two things — his tenth assignment from National Geographic magazine and permission to shoot it digitally — and he had a good story to help him make his case.”
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From /.: “NY Times today has an essay about a map of the entire universe produced by two Princeton astronomers using a variety of data including the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Its view begins with the Earth at the bottom and extends back almost to the Big Bang at the top, including such objects as the Sloan Great Wall, 1.37 billion light-years long.”
“This page contains images of various papers found in a box that hadn’t been opened in over 100 years… Most collectors and dealers refer to paper collectibles as ‘Ephemera’ items since they were in general meant to be discarded once they were used.”
“TunesAtWork lets you listen to your personal iTunes music collection while at your office or lab, even though your iTunes collection resides at home. TunesAtWork is a specialized web server that runs on your home Macintosh and serves web pages that present your music collection (including playlists) organized visually much the same as in iTunes itself. This makes it easy to find what you’re looking for.”
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