Tag Archives: astronomy

Dark is the night

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Arthur

There were a couple of interesting things that made it in my reading list, this week: Obviously, you may have heard of the official launch of Ubuntu ‘Hardy Heron’ (or if you’re into version numbering, version 8.04). There’s lots of … Continue reading →

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A disturbance in the force

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Arthur

Via Metafilter (thread), I found out that Yo La Tengo’s “Murdering The Classics” session is happening today. WMFU will have a livestream, starting at 5PM EST (pls/MP3). If you need a different output stream, the WMFU blog has other types … Continue reading →

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When the Earth

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of links to keep you busy for now: I’m not sure where I got this one from, but to me ‘Social Wallpaper’ is the only compelling social network. If you can call it a social network: basically, it … Continue reading →

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Aliens uh?

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Arthur

If you’re bored and feel for a challenge this weekend: I watched a couple of videos online that were interesting enought to share. ‘Alien Planet’ (1h:30m) is a documentary about an imaginative human mission to an inhabited planet (“Darwin IV”) … Continue reading →

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Moo (and other stuff)

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier today, the WordPress developers released a fix for a security issue in the xml-rpc code. There’s no need to completely upgrade your installation: upgrading overhere is sort of painless and that’s not because of the fact that my host … Continue reading →

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Another one then.

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Arthur

For all: a good new year. At xsamplex, 2008 will be ‘more of the same’: we’ll bring you the bad, the good and (if I can make some more time) more code. You may have already read about this one: … Continue reading →

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Klaatu barada nikto

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Arthur

When astronauts (or cosmonauts for that matter) from a different country get into a fight, which country’s law does apply? (via Slashdot) According to a 1967 treaty (Outer Space Treaty), states have legal jurisdiction within spacecraft registered (‘owned’) by them, … Continue reading →

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In science today…

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Arthur

I read that astronomers have read detected light from the earliest stars in the galaxy. To be exact: Light that shone 13 Billion years ago. The astronomers used a technique called ‘gravitational lensing’ (using gravity of nearby objects to magnify … Continue reading →

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Hyper-stations

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Arthur

Links to make it through the week: Via Metafilter (discussion), this excellent set of YouTube videos of presentations hosted at Google with too many luminaries to mention in this post. Most of the videos are a hour long. As asked … Continue reading →

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Off-Key

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Arthur

Yo. Boris Yeltsin died. I can’t exactly remember how he became president of Russian Federation but I recall seeing video of Gorbachev’s last words as the official leader of the former CCCP. That was probably close after the August Putsch … Continue reading →

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The Tech, The Science and Space

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Arthur

For no reason I was earlier up than normal, today: with the extra time I had I looked into several compiler-compilers (or parsers/scanners) targetting C#. I ran into a couple of ones: First of all there’s ANTLER (Public Domain, needs … Continue reading →

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Space: the 13 billion light years frontier

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Arthur

The most interesting (scientific) news was that a team of astronomers discovered the most distant galaxy, which is 12-point-something billion lightyears away from us. This is interesting, because obviously, that particular galaxy is one of the first ones created after … Continue reading →

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