Mesmerizing timelapse of the Earth is the highest resolution single-shot imagery ever taken of our planet from space. The video and images were snapped by the Russian weather satellite Elektro-L during its orbit 36,000 kilometers above the equator. The images are in 121 megapixels; That’s 1 km per pixel. In the video shown above here, …
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Create a Favicon-Only Bookmarks Bar Right-click the bookmark on your Bookmarks bar. Select Edit… Remove all text in the Name field. Select Save. Repeat until all of your bookmarks are reduced to just favicons. Pinning Tabs Pinning tabs is another great space saver. It allows you to reduce the size of a tab down to just the favicon, making it easier to …
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Jonathan Ive – the British designer responsible for Apple’s iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad – has been knighted at Buckingham Palace. The 45-year-old said the investiture in front of the Princess Royal was “really thrilling and particularly humbling”. Now based in the US, Apple’s senior vice-president of industrial design flew in to the UK with …
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A Nokia Lumia 900 is put to the test of being hammered on with nails and more. // Thx – AJ Batac
One of my favorite film composers, Hans Zimmer, has a Google+ account where he’s been sharing photos of his work. What I love about them is the sheer amount music technology he is surrounded by.
See the rest of them – San Francisco’s Mission District murals *** Thousands more from Flickr – Mission District
I love this story on ‘predictive policing’. Researchers use data to predict “hot spots” for crime and then send it over to the police. The cops on the beat patrol those areas more often and crime drops. Math for the win. The best way to fight crime is to keep it from happening in the …
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What makes a great story? For legendary filmmaker Ken Burns, the answer is both complicated and personal. In this short documentary about the craft of storytelling, he explains his lifelong mission to wake the dead. *** Read a Q&A with the filmmakers Sarah Klein and Tom Mason. Like Ken Burns on Facebook.
For a look at the future of digital museums, check out the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory’s new digital archive composed of thousands of scanned documents from the African leader’s life. With the help of a $1.25 million grant from Google, the center digitized thousands of documents and images that illustrate the life and times of South Africa’s first …
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