October 2011
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September 2011
22 posts
Go Chargers! →
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Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote... →
Yup, we got to control voter fraud. Can’t have them poor brown people voting, ya know…. Or them welfare cheats….. Or students. Especially not the students.
As voting officials readied Diebold machines in their precinct, a few machines received a small modification. A $10 part plugged directly into their logic board, tucked inside the machine, and the machine locked up....
NASA - NASA Ringtones →
As announced on TRMS…. NASA Ringtones!
Get the whole set!
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In Praise of Early Stewardesses - Photo Gallery -... →
Ellen Church became the world’s first stewardess on May 15, 1930, working a flight from Oakland to Chicago for Boeing Air Transport (BAT), which owned United Air Lines and later took that name officially. Pictured: the inaugural crew before takeoff on their first day, California, May 15, 1930. Standing in foreground from left to right are: Margaret Arnott, Inez Keller, Cornelia...
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This is big news.... →
Penn State Live - Virus kills breast cancer cells in laboratory
Ohhhh look! Science →
How much bubble wrap do you need to survive jumping out of the 6th floor of a building?
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Build yourself a home (a very cool home) for less... →
….pictures of a house that Simon Dale built for his family in Wales. It was built by him and his father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting they were moved in and cosy. He estimate 1000-1500 man hours and $5000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).
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Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 →
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
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I do not fear death →
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
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How to take a picture.... →
Hasselblad Photography Manual for NASA Astronauts.
As a guidebook for the NASA Photography Training Program, it not only describes the operation of the Hasselblad 500 EL/M cameras used on the U. S. Space Shuttle but is also a concise manual on photography to assist astronauts in creating the best possible space photographs.
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Moon landing sites →
“People actually used to be able to go to the Moon; people used to explore the Moon….”
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Purists Gone Wild →
“How did a freedom-loving people decide to give up a private right that had been freely exercised by millions upon millions since the first European colonists arrived in the New World?”
“A mighty alliance of moralists and progressives, suffragettes and xenophobes had legally seized the Constitution, bending it to a new purpose,”
Sound familiar?
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Just WOW..... →
Hubble Captures Time-Lapse Videos Of Stars Being Born
“The birth of star is just as traumatic as the birth of a person, only on a much larger scale.”
Just click the link already….
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Opportunity reporting from Mars.... →
The initial work of NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration.
Opportunity arrived three weeks ago at the rim of a 14-mile-wide (22-kilometer-wide) crater named Endeavour. The first rock it examined is flat-topped and about the size of a footstool. It...
