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NASA Tweetup

brianyee0 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:11:16 +0000

NASA announces tweet up to view the launch of Atlantis. NASA will pick 150 people at random that sign up on their site.

Hrm, I’ll be signing up — and if I’m one of the 150 picked — I think that’s too good of a deal to pass up. There’s also a second place tweet up at JSC.

Count me in.

http://www.nasa.gov/connect/tweetup.html

Two of These Things Are Not Like The Others

brianyee0 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:26:25 +0000

The image says it all. Something is seriously wrong with American “news”. I’m crying right now…

From: Tiger Woods returns to golf – Boing Boing.

An Oldie But a Goodie

brianyee0 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:26:50 +0000

This is back from 2000. I still think about this every now and then and thought I’d post it (or re-post it):

Postal Experiments from the Annals of Improbable Research. Experiments include trying to send all sorts of objects (including a $20 bill in a clear envelope, to a ski, to a deer tibia) through the US Postal Service to see what gets delivered and what doesn’t.

Wants For Sale

brianyee0 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:24:04 +0000

This couple from New York paints pictures of the things they want, and sell the paintings for the price of the real item. When the painting sells, they buy that item. Really neat concept.

Wants for Sale (from Kottke)

Flot

brianyee0 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:40:01 +0000

Joe (@szac) turned me on to Flot for a project he’s working on. I’m helping him out with some php logic. Flot a pretty nifty graphing library all in javascript. The examples show that it’s capable of a lot: multiple axes, multiple series, highlighting, and all can be updated real-time using Ajax. But at its simplest — give it some properties, a data set, and it’s off and running. Actually forget the properties, it will compute a logical set of axes for you if you want.

That Flot does all of this in javascript (via canvas painting) is all pretty amazing to me. To me, javascript is still what you use to make those mouseover nav links that change state. My javascript chops never really progressed beyond the web circa-1998.