September 2010
China to launch second lunar probe this weekend →
Why did we stop going there, again ?
The probe plans to test technology in preparation for an unmanned moon landing in 2012, with a possible manned lunar mission to follow in 2017.
“Beware of heroes. Much better rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes.”
– Frank Herbert, on Dune.
“Good design is a tangible fragment of a perfect world.”
– Antonio Scarponi
Quantum suicide and immortality →
bestofwikipedia:
In quantum mechanics, quantum suicide is a thought experiment. It was originally published independently by Hans Moravec in 1987 and Bruno Marchal in 1988 and was further developed by Max Tegmark in 1998. It attempts to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Everett many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of the Schrödinger’s...
Getting Made The Scorsese Way: Goodfellas →
Scorcese on the making of Goodfellas:
Once you think you need everything and want everything and there’s nowhere else to go, you have to keep getting and acquiring and consuming. And when that’s taken away from you, you don’t like it. The bottom line is: How much more do you want?
You will want to read this.
“Typography is not just pretty to look at. It facilitates the process of reading....”
– Information Architects – Writer for iPad
“Some day we will have cameras hidden in our eyes and you won’t know we’re taking...”
– Clayton Cubitt
Worldchanging: Media Tracking and the Quantified... →
Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly have been documenting an emerging phenomenon they call “the quantified self“. The term refers to a set experiments that people are conducting – primarily on themselves – to understand their own bodies and behavior.
Nikon D7000: Camera Road Test With Chase Jarvis →
I’m all woot! And most probably somewhat poorer in the very near future.
“We’ve got an amazingly effective way of distributing culture that is extremely...”
– The Creator of Minecraft
“this all happens instantly. It’s the internet on fast-forward, and...”
– Charlie Brooker on Google Instant
C By Tom McCarthy - New York Times Book Review →
One more for the reading queue.
[McCarthy] withstands the temptations of emotional plotting and holds out instead for something bigger, deeper, more universal and elemental. “C” is a rigorous inquiry into the meaning of meaning: our need to find it in the world around us and communicate it to one another; our methods for doing so; the hubs and networks and skeins of interaction that result.
Habits of Mind →
a list of habits for mathematical students. Tinker and Invent is prolly my favourite.
via kottke
The east side of the moon →
Pictures gathered by the LROC
