Like Hexagonal pipes, Rotaboxes is a nice and simple idea, well executed, of the kind I wish I had done 🙂
Image source: screenshot of rotaboxes.com. Puzzle image from the author’s instagram.
Rotaboxes
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If PHP were British, a rare really funny entry in the programming humor space, Well executed. mb_splendid!
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ooh.directory
ooh.directory, a human-curated blog directory in the vein of dmoz and Yahoo.
From the rules:
Every blog must have an RSS or Atom feed.
Newsletters aren’t included. Some sites are a blog and a newsletter, with identical content, but only those which mainly seem like a blog are included.
Sounds good.
My first click was programmer cartography artist Doug McCune.
Space Celery
From NASA an interesting attempt at “True Colors”, considering how much of the impressive astro photography is technical images with “fake” colors.
The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. The featured picture, an attempt to show how Io would appear in the “true colors” perceptible to the average human eye, was taken in 1999 July by the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003
I’ve extended the black backdrop, the super tight crop in the original (click the link & compare for yourself) seems, again, very technical.
Photo source: NASA / JPL / Galileo
Schlieren Steak
What if What If was real? Randall Munroe back at it again with a Krispy Steak:
I was contacted by Tom Fisher and Thomas Rees, University of Manchester researchers studying hypersonic heat transfer. They had finished their wind tunnel experiments early, so they decided to head to the corner store, buy a steak, and gather some data.
Video 1: A Sainsbury’s 21 day matured beef steak in Mach 5 winds, recorded using Schlieren imaging to show the hypersonic shockwave
Photo source: screenshot from XKCD twitter.
