NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander is covered with far more dust than it was in its first selfie, taken in December 2018, not long after landing – or in its second selfie, composed of images taken inContinue reading “InSight’s Final Selfie”
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U.S.S. Akron (ZRS-4) and U.S.S. Macon (ZRS-5)
The United States Navy airships U.S.S. Akron (ZRS-4) and U.S.S. Macon (ZRS-5) were designed for long-range scouting in support of fleet operations. Often referred to as flying aircraft carriers, each of the helium-inflated airships carried F9C-2 Curtiss Sparrowhawk biplanes which could be launched and recovered in flight, greatly extending the range over which the AkronContinue reading “U.S.S. Akron (ZRS-4) and U.S.S. Macon (ZRS-5)”
Art Bits from HyperCard
Long-time Macintosh users likely remember HyperCard, Apple’s strange hypermedia system that was sorta like a cross between index cards, web pages, and 90s interactive edutainment software. HyperCard left a pretty big legacy for the Web to come, influencing everything from JavaScript to wikis to the pointing finger thing for links on pages to fuckin’ Myst.Continue reading “Art Bits from HyperCard”
Web color is still broken
7 years after Computer Color is Broken, the web is still doing color wrong. Read more…
How Podman can transfer container images without a registry
The new ‘podman image scp’ command makes it easier to transfer container images between users on the same system or machines over the network. Read more…
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