-
(via abcstarstuff)
-
Earth from Space: Mountains of hunger by europeanspaceagency on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
The Tibesti Mountains, located mostly in Chad with the northern slopes extending into Libya, are captured in this image, acquired on 4 March 2012 by Envisat’s MERIS instrument.
The mountains’ highest peak is Emi Koussi – pictured here as a circular structure in the lower-right portion of the dark area. The westernmost volcano is Toussidé. Our satellite view shows the dark peak with lava flows extending to the left. The white depression to the southeast gets its colour from the accumulation of carbonate salts, creating a soda lake. Surrounding the Tibesti Mountains, the sands of the Sahara appear like orange, yellow and white brushstrokes.
Credits: ESA(via abcstarstuff)
-
This illustration places the Fermi measurements in perspective with other well-known features of cosmic history. Star formation reached a peak when the universe was about 3 billion years old and has been declining ever since. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
-
(via abcstarstuff)
-
34th street and 1st avenue.
(via abcstarstuff)
-
The Cycle of Stars — The End
(via abcstarstuff)
-
A win for fair use - Court rules book scanning is fair use →
A little known fact about Google’s on-going book scanning mission is that the digitised content is returned to the library providing the books for submission to the HathiTrust Digital Library. A collaboration between ~60 research libraries to promote the preservation of culture.
As per the link the Authors Guild sued the HDL and was dealt a heavy blow when the court found that the action of the HDL fully met the four principles of fair use.
Amidst some of the recent rulings that make a total mockery of intellectual property, this finding is a breath of fresh air.
-
The Open webOS Project Blog: Open webOS 1.0 Edition →
Today is a great day for Open webOS. We have completed our initial roadmap and are releasing Open webOS 1.0 on schedule, as promised.
Our combined efforts with the community and hard work have paid off, and we are now ready to move on to the next phase together. With this release we have…
-
Google commits to ongoing support of Nik Software pro plugins →
As reported by DPReview, Google acquired Nik Software last week, in all likelihood for the Snapseed product that competes with Instagram which was recently snapped up by Facebook for a hair under one billion dollars.
Snapseed was actually Nik’s first foray into consumer oriented software, previsously their product range consisted of proffessional and “pro-sumer” plugins to Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
The google acquisisition left many of those pro-opriented customers with concerns as to what Googles intentions were for the pro software made by Nik (refer to comments section of the DPReview article), Google have finally made a commitment to the continued development of the full range of Nik Software. Let’s just hope this continues and the developers are free to innovate and create great software for both consumers and professionals alike.
-
(via abcstarstuff)
