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Willow Run
March 10, 2011
Ford built a B-24 every 55 minutes in this Michigan plant even before Pearl Harbor. Interesting piece of history! Wonder if it’s true that the motto ‘Built Ford Tough’ originated at Willow Run?
Discovery’s last launch
February 27, 2011
Software developer Neil Monday shot this footage through the window of a commercial airplane flying out of Orlando International… with his iPhone. Cosmic Log also has some shots of the launch at a higher altitude, taken from an unmanned helium balloon. After this trip, the shuttle will be heading for a spot at the Smithsonian’s [...]
Hacker
February 24, 2011
My sister-in-law answered her phone today to find what had to be some sort of hacker on the other end. “Ma’am, you’ve been downloading infractions that will result in the loss of your computer if we don’t help you. All I need is for you to hit the windows key and type in…” “WHAT?? Who [...]
The Free Frontier
February 8, 2011
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Bill Whittle on NASA and space exploration. Very interesting!
Machine converts plastic back into oil
November 17, 2010
Science is wonderful. I wonder how quickly this guy will get rich and the technology will subsequently vanish…?
Filter Forge
October 11, 2010
Joanie told me about a neat plugin for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements called Filter Forge this morning. Hundreds of cool filters and it’s supposed to be easy to create your own, but I haven’t tried that just yet. There are scads factory presets for each filter along with individual sliders so that the number of [...]
Bonjour!
September 28, 2010
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Adobe and Apple use a script called Bonjour that can kill internet access in Vista/Win7 boxes after installation of one of their products. This is what my access problem came down to: a tool designed to help networking killed the net. I could still access my router and home network, just not the internet. Just [...]














September 17, 2011
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