With a temp forecast of near freezing tonight, this may be the last of the garden harvest.
Month: September 2013
Why We Need To Pay Attention
While heading for a sunrise photo shoot this morning …
Good brakes and responsive handling help, but most important is keeping eyes open and looking way down the road.
Eagle Over France
Emoji Tracking
Some of our audience are sure to know this, but for those who don’t, emoji is the Japanese expression for what we commonly know as “smileys”. While emoji started off life in Japanese email and web communications, their use has been adopted by much of the world at large, including Apple and Android smartphone operating systems and many websites and web services. Here is a realtime visual tracker that shows counts and frequency of particular emoji as used by Twitter. The most-used emoji, reassuringly, is the heart symbol (or at least was at the time of this writing). Click on the graphic or go here to see the tracking in action.
Digital Grotesque
Danielle
Danielle from Anthony Cerniello on Vimeo.
Fullscreen recommended. Be sure to turn up your speakers, too. Jump here to learn more about how filmmaker Anthony Cernello created this.
The Agrarian Life
Today’s lunch of steamed vegetables represented in its entirety, yes, 100%, products from our own garden — potatoes, beans, carrots and peppers.
Cradle of Mir
This year at Burning Man (also this …), a group of Russian artists created a project called the “Cradle of Mir” to celebrate Space Station Mir and symbolize world peace. Their project involved a model of the space station inside a temporary 3-story-high pyramid. For details and lots more photography by Ron Lussier, jump here.
Why I’m Betting on Tesla and SpaceX
Elon Musk explains:
More here.
No Passwords Needed
Who needs passwords, when your heart says it all? Does this really work?
More info and commentary, for the clicking.