unknownskywalker: Earth from Space: Swirling cloud art This false-colour Envisat image, taken on 6 June 2010, highlights a unique cloud formation, created by Von Karman vortices, south of the Canary Island archipelago, some 95 km from the northwest coast of Africa (right) in the Atlantic Ocean. Von Karman vortices, named after aeronautical engineer Theodore von Karman, form as air flows around an object in its path, causing it to separate and create eddies in its wake. The clockwise and counterclockwise spirals in this image were created as wind blowing from the north over the Atlantic was disturbed by the archipelago. Seven larger islands and a few smaller ones make up the Canaries; the larger islands are (left to right): El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Tenerife is the largest of the Canaries, while Gran Canaria is the most populated. High-Res: 3085×3538px (2 MB) Credit: ESA View high resolution

unknownskywalker:

Earth from Space: Swirling cloud art

This false-colour Envisat image, taken on 6 June 2010, highlights a unique cloud formation, created by Von Karman vortices, south of the Canary Island archipelago, some 95 km from the northwest coast of Africa (right) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Von Karman vortices, named after aeronautical engineer Theodore von Karman, form as air flows around an object in its path, causing it to separate and create eddies in its wake. The clockwise and counterclockwise spirals in this image were created as wind blowing from the north over the Atlantic was disturbed by the archipelago.

Seven larger islands and a few smaller ones make up the Canaries; the larger islands are (left to right): El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Tenerife is the largest of the Canaries, while Gran Canaria is the most populated.

High-Res: 3085×3538px (2 MB)

Credit: ESA

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(via unknownskywalker, snowce) This is amazing.

(via unknownskywalker, snowce)

This is amazing.
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New Office (by Presstab) Had to setup my old desktop, now running Ubuntu 10.04. Just need to get some streaming action to my AppleTV running Boxee.Gotta say it’s nice to look out my window to see foliage and not into someone else’s apartment.

New Office (by Presstab)

Had to setup my old desktop, now running Ubuntu 10.04. Just need to get some streaming action to my AppleTV running Boxee.

Gotta say it’s nice to look out my window to see foliage and not into someone else’s apartment.

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To reach the goal of Zen, even the idea of ‘having nothing’ ought to be done away with.
D.T. Suzuki (via mnmal)
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I don’t need flat furniture nor do I need a desk. I have enough pens and journals. My closet is full of shirts and while I still wonder what a hibblygizmo is, I’m certain I don’t need one. What I need is shop full of people with opinions — because it’s not what I know that I’m worried about, it’s what I don’t know that’s really interesting.

Rands In Repose: The Shop I Want

Required reading.

(via minimalmac) Definitely a must read.
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shaneblog: Gizmodo says this is Apple’s next iPhone. And boy is it beautiful. The exposed screws on this tell me this is not the next iPhone, Steve would never make it that easy to get inside. I would expect the new model will look like a small iPad, and this is just for testing. 

shaneblog:

Gizmodo says this is Apple’s next iPhone. And boy is it beautiful.

The exposed screws on this tell me this is not the next iPhone, Steve would never make it that easy to get inside. I would expect the new model will look like a small iPad, and this is just for testing. 

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Alfred App

minimalmac:

Alfred is a new quick launching application that is in beta but gets more promising (and stable) with each release. If Quicksilver’s mercurial nature and LaunchBar’s price are not your speed, this is worth a look.

Looks interesting. Too bad I’m pretty into Google’s Quick Search Box. It works well for me, but I’ll keep an eye on this one.

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mnmal: marco: By Amit Gupta: But one day, pretty soon, you’ll realize that you haven’t used your laptop in days. That you tend to grab your iPad first whenever you need to visit a website or answer email. That your laptop never leaves your desk anymore. It starts tomorrow. Great post. I don’t know what to think of this… The problem with this is that SLRs are still for the technically savvy, and cell phones are a long way off point and shoots quality and abilities. Laptops won’t go away, they are now ingrained as the portable desktop, and most people just want that. Not an actual desktop, they don’t need the power; and the iPad is just a luxury item that duplicates the laptop functionality while still needing a computer to use. Maybe, just maybe, when the iPad becomes computer free this won’t be the case, but it’s been 3 and a half years for the iPhone and it still needs to be tethered by a cord to ad and remove media content. View high resolution

mnmal:

marco:

By Amit Gupta:

But one day, pretty soon, you’ll realize that you haven’t used your laptop in days. That you tend to grab your iPad first whenever you need to visit a website or answer email. That your laptop never leaves your desk anymore.

It starts tomorrow.

Great post.

I don’t know what to think of this…

The problem with this is that SLRs are still for the technically savvy, and cell phones are a long way off point and shoots quality and abilities.

Laptops won’t go away, they are now ingrained as the portable desktop, and most people just want that. Not an actual desktop, they don’t need the power; and the iPad is just a luxury item that duplicates the laptop functionality while still needing a computer to use.

Maybe, just maybe, when the iPad becomes computer free this won’t be the case, but it’s been 3 and a half years for the iPhone and it still needs to be tethered by a cord to ad and remove media content.

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HP - Pavilion Elite Desktop with Intel® Core™ i7 Processor - HPE-170f

A coworker picked up a pc from Best Buy so I thought I would check out what they have in stock. I’ve been looking to rebuild an older pc of mine so I’m always looking at prices of parts and big box machines. When I saw this HP, and the price, my jaw hit the floor. I was speechless, and sadly it brought a tear to my eye.  The fact that it’s sold out I didn’t even question.

Core i7, 9gigs ram expandable to 24? $1300? That’s just crazy talk, and a testament to how far pc prices have fallen. Not to mention how fast and far tech has advanced in the last decade.

Do You Live Like a Hummingbird? « A Beautiful Ripple Effect

A great mantra, live like a hummingbird. I think I’ll add it to “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.”

illustrativo: fuckyeahgirlyart: Nan Guazi There’s something about geometric shapes in the morning that just makes me happy.

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fuckyeahgirlyart:

Nan Guazi

There’s something about geometric shapes in the morning that just makes me happy.

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fuckyeahspace: The Earth and Moon as photographed from the orbit of Mars by HiRISE over 142 million kilometers away. An amazing view I would love to witness first hand. If a video game maker can buy a Russian Moon rover that had been lost for 30 years on the Moon and now has plans to go to it, I think I should be able to look down on the Earth and Moon from space and measure their distance apart with my thumb and pointer finger. View high resolution

fuckyeahspace:

The Earth and Moon as photographed from the orbit of Mars by HiRISE over 142 million kilometers away.

An amazing view I would love to witness first hand. If a video game maker can buy a Russian Moon rover that had been lost for 30 years on the Moon and now has plans to go to it, I think I should be able to look down on the Earth and Moon from space and measure their distance apart with my thumb and pointer finger.

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fuckyeahspace: Part two of BBC’s The Wonders of the Solar System is now available for your downloading pleasure. Along with getting to look at Brian Cox for almost a whole hour, you’ll learn how the laws of physics govern the Earth, the solar system, the galaxy and the universe. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Wednesday. This Show is amazing, can’t wait to watch this episode. View high resolution

fuckyeahspace:

Part two of BBC’s The Wonders of the Solar System is now available for your downloading pleasure. Along with getting to look at Brian Cox for almost a whole hour, you’ll learn how the laws of physics govern the Earth, the solar system, the galaxy and the universe. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Wednesday.

This Show is amazing, can’t wait to watch this episode.

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Favorite iPhone Apps

I believe finding good iPhone apps is impossible. However, I have found several extremely useful apps that I use on a daily basis. (I hate having multiple apps that do the same thing, but Apple won’t let me remove theirs. I keep all the native apps on the first page and tend to ignore it.)

Read It Later: I absolutely love this this app/service. I probably use this app every time I ride the bus, before bed, during lunch…

Tumblr: I’m not a fan of the icon, but, again, I love the service. It let’s me follow my feed and open links in the app. It’s got it’s purpose and it does it well.

TweetDeck: I’m still looking for a good Twitter app that will let me send links to Read It Later. Many are out there, but I use this one because it has a great interface. Simple, yet has a ton of features.

ESPN Radio: Tony Kornheiser Show. Mon thru Fri, 9-11 am, Central time.

Mint.com: Really slow on syncing, but it shows me all my accounts and syncs with the web app. A few flaws, but serves it’s purpose well.

MyWeather: So many more features than the native app. The radar alone destroys the “73 and Sunny” Weather app.

Simplenote: Just started using this one. I like that it syncs with the web; add, edit, and delete with my MacBook.

No particular order, and no links. I definitely suggest checking them out though.

shaneblog:

State of the Internet, a motion type presentation by the Jess3 agency of mostly mind-blowing statistics from the big social networks during 2009. (via Matthew Buchanan)

The numbers are quite staggering.

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