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Hubble Ultra Deep Field – a sense of proportion

As Douglas Adams put, humans really can’t deal with having a sense of proportion.  We aren’t capable.  But we can stretch for it… (I can touch my toes, but I can’t bend further over… but I should try to) Take 5 minutes and read this fantastic piece on an image from Hubble Ultra Deep Field.  It’s a great reminder of what we know about space and a few tools to help you start to realize that you can’t ever come close to grasping a true sense of proportion.

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PS3 Cluster… i’ll take just one.

Clusters are inherently cool anyway… there are much cheaper ways of doing it… but how sexy is that?  Take one of the clustered PS3’s out of the mix, play some games… put it back in to crunching. Engineer Creates First Academic Playstation 3 Computing Cluster

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TED – Talks – Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

Absolutely fantastic photosynth program demonstration.  This really is inspiring.

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whoever these people are, I’m in love with them

fun storm trooper photos

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Go PHP5

http://gophp5.org/, by 5.2.2008 – Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 all hosts should commit to PHP5. That’s 188 days (as of today). PHP 4 has served the web developer community for seven years now, and served it well. However, it also shows its age. Most of PHP 4’s shortcomings have been addressed by PHP 5, released three years ago, but the transition from PHP 4 to PHP 5 has been slow for a number of