Logg for Aslak Raanes » links http://folk.ntnu.no/aslakr svada og tåkeprat, av og til metaprat med meg selv. Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:53:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Logg for Aslak Raaneshttp://www.idi.ntnu.no/bilder/ansatte/ga64/aslakr.pnghttp://folk.ntnu.no/aslakr6464Logg for Aslak Raanes - http://folk.ntnu.no/aslakr Kart over Apollo 11-mannskapets bevegelse på månen http://folk.ntnu.no/aslakr/2008/03/24/485 http://folk.ntnu.no/aslakr/2008/03/24/485#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:42:55 +0000 Aslak Raanes http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~aslakr/blog/2008/03/24/485 sammenlignet med en fotballbane:

Traverse Map, Figure 3-16 from the Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report on a on a football (soccer) pitch.

Tegnet av Thomas Schwagmeier.

(via kottke.org og Strange Maps)

En SVG-utgave av disse kartene hadde vært kjekt, NASA.1

  1. Ikke at jeg tror de leser norsk. ↩

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  • Since [PMA in March, 2007], we have not made any announcements on the DP1. I apologize for this lack of information, and I would like to give you an update on the development status of the DP1 now.
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  • «NTNU er ikke blant de tre hundre beste universitetene på årets THES-ranking, og heller ikke på topp tre nasjonalt.»
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  • «A quick learning curve has always been the ukulele’s greatest attraction. That’s why Boomers are returning to their closets and unearthing those ukuleles from their youth. And they’re discovering the instrument has therapeutic powers.»
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  • «Library can already track books, movies, music, and videogames. But how about — oh, I don’t know — tools? Make it so.»
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  • «NTNU-styret gikk nølende med på Svein Lorentzens forslag om redaktørplakat. Det betyr at UA skal drives uavhengig av NTNUs Informasjonsavdeling.»
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  • «Cosina introduced the new Voigtlander SL II 40/2 and 58/1.4 lenses for digital and film Nikon and Pentax KA SLRs These new manual focus lenses have the computer chips necessary for meter compatibility with current Nikon and Pentax DSLRs.»
  • «In his talk, Vinton G. Cerf, […], will address the current status of the Internet, some of the technology changes that are driving its evolution, and some of the global policy issues that have to be dealt with.»
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  • «Parses TaskPaper format task lists and displays them in a similar style to the TaskPaper application.»
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  • «Using Evidence-Based Scheduling is pretty easy: it will take you a day or two at the beginning of every iteration to produce detailed estimates, and it’ll take a few seconds every day to record when you start working on a new task on a timesheet.»
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  • «When attached to a Windows/Max OS X/Linux computer, the UBW will show up as an RS232 Com port! You control the individual I/O pins on the PIC through simple serial commands.»
  • «a small board that contains a Microchip PIC USB-capable microcontroller, headers to bring out all of the PICs signal lines (to a breadboard for example), only costs about $15-$20 to build and is powered from the USB connection.»
  • «Boot Down is a Macintosh utility for reading and writing a Microchip PIC via USB. It works with USB enabled PIC microcontrollers running the Microchip boot loader software.»
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  • «JEvent is a set of document sand implementations aimed at using XMPP and XMPP Publish-Subscribe as a basis for Event Driven Architecture (EDA).»
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  • «Dette albumet er en aldri så liten triumf for storslått gjør-det-selv-kreativitet.» ¶ Efterklangs «Parades»
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  • «[…] shows you the maps for pretty much every transit system in the world, with some well-written commentary including historical maps of the major transit systems as well as photos of some incidental artwork […]» Må ha.
  • «Den er melodiøs, sparsommelig og sentrert rundt Blixa Bargelds tekster og messende, foredragende vokal. Samtidig er avantgardebandets lek med støy, frekvens og kunst ufravikelige elementer i helheten.» ¶ Einstürzende Neubautens «Alles Wieder Offen
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  • «http://moinmo.in/ now points at the moinmoin wiki (discussion on MoinMoInDomain).» Moinmo.in ?! Tja, vi har jo del.icio.us.
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  • «Apple estimated that buyers of 250,000 of the iPhones sold so far intended to unlock them, Apple’s chief operating officer, Timothy D. Cook, said in a conference call with analysts this week.»
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  • «I denne sjappa er ikke nasking noe problem.»
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  • «Maybe some of that software would have already been updated for Leopard compatibility if Apple had provided developers with the same access to the final version of 10.5.0 that they apparently saw fit to distribute to Pogue […]»
  • «It increasingly looks like we won’t be getting access to the final build of Leopard until the same day our customers do. We have a close-to-final seed, but not the actual shipping bits.»
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  • «It reminded me of the time in my mis-spent youth when I got lost in IRC, spending evenings heckling the TV with my IRC friends. This is the geek equivalent of being stoner, by the way, with roughly the same effect on cognition.»
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  • «a lightweight and easy-to-use C library for programming with the Jabber protocol. It’s designed to be easy to get started with and yet extensible to let you do anything the Jabber protocol allows.»
  • «By holding the sheet open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers — by disguising herself as a vending machine.»
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  • «Enterprise software, it can hardly be debated, is pretty bad stuff.»
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  • «I’m promoting the release of the stylish new logos in my own, uniquely Burningbird»
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  • «a lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP […]»
  • «This is an Apache module implementation of the RFC 4791 (CalDAV) which defines extensions to the (WebDAV) protocol to specify a standard way of accessing, managing, and sharing calendaring and scheduling information based on the iCalendar format.»
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  • «Og dette er det altså produsentene som betaler. For forbrukeren vil musikken være gratis – eller rettere sagt bakt inn i prisen på enheten.» Hvordan i svarte går det ann å skrive at dette er gratis?
  • «There is precedent here. When Microsoft was looking to launch a subscription service for Zune, Morris played hardball. He got the tech giant to fork over $1 for every player sold, plus royalties. Total Music would take that concept even further.»
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  • «Nu is an interpreted object-oriented language. Its syntax comes from Lisp, but Nu is semantically closer to Ruby than Lisp. Nu is written in Objective-C and is designed to take full advantange of the Objective-C runtime […]»
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  • «The Nokia Multimedia Transfer application enables you to transfer pictures, videos, podcasts, music, and files between your Nokia mobile device and your Mac.»
  • «Here’s what the engineers have to say. […]»
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  • «I Frankrike har arbeidsmarkedet vært ganske tøft de siste årene. Derfor tror Anne Aftret at flere franskmenn godt kunne tenke seg å bo i Norge en periode.»
  • «This project intends to be a full implementation of the Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287) and Atom Publishing Protocol for the Django web framework.»
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  • «Posten får flere å velge imellom ved å satse på rekruttering ved universitetet i Lund, som er Nordens største – med rundt 40 000 studenter.» (Hvorfor er denne på forbruker.no?)
  • «In the 18-to-49-year-old demographic, the half-hour comedy delivered a 2.7 rating on its original broadcast date. After seven days of DVR viewing, the show had earned a 4.1 rating, an increase of 52 percent.»
  • «Use the same phone number and SIM card across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.»
  • «HyperDither is an OS X image processing utility that converts color or grayscale images to 1 bit black & white using a sophisticated dithering routine. Specifically, HyperDither implements the ‹Atkinson› dithering filter.»
  • «The Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) is an application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol is based on HTTP transfer of Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is documented in the Atom Syndication Format.»
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  • «NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.»
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  • «reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher.»
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