Space Oddity
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Monday May 13 2013
Commander Chris Hadfield? Already people's hero. Now? In his last video from the International Space Station before returning to Earth he's something much, much more.
Sunday Things - yet more space edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday May 12 2013
Links! In spaaaaaaace!


Bonus Where-in-the-world-are-you? corner:
- GeoGuessr - fun exploration game involving Google's Street View. You are placed in a random location. Can you place yourself on a map? I occasionally get the right continent. Even more occasionally the right street.
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Sunday Things - miniature egotism edition
posted in Media by Cargo Cult on Sunday May 5 2013
Brain has been eaten by re-release of a side project. For anyone here due to Raspberry Pi hacking or whatever, my previous hobby of computer game modding accidentally turned into a job. Anyway, for various reasons, I've got round to re-releasing my oft-downloaded Half-Life 2 mod. On Valve's mighty, world-spanning Steam. Yay!

Things will be back to normal next week, once my brain has accumulated sufficient new links for linking.
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Sunday Things - Edité-Frignim edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday April 28 2013
Important information! And some rust and decay.


Bonus Spaghetti Code corner:
- The Marbled Lungfish - largest known genome of any vertebrate, this unassuming creature is the Microsoft Windows of the animal world. What does it do with a genome over forty times the size of a human's?
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Sunday Things - still another edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday April 21 2013
Catching up again. Sunday is imminent. Have some links!



Bonus Disappointing Robots corner:
- Robot Shaming - unlike 'pet shaming', robots don't have feelings. They hate it when you anthropomorphise them.
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