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Scientists record the Sound of the Sun

Martin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:51:39 +0000

Sound of the Sun (courtesy Richard Morton) by University of Sheffield

Swedish house on the Moon

Martin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:55:37 +0000

There is a man from Sweden who wants to build a house on the moon. This entrepreneur, Mikael Genberg, started to build a one room hotel high up in a tree in a park. That idea got worldwide press coverage. Because this was a big success he started building a floating one room hotel (glass cellar) so you sleep between fish. These hotels are now all over the world.

In march 2013 a Swedish consortium will put a lunar module in a custom Dnjepr-missile. In the lunar module is a surprise packet the size twice a shoebox. This kit will transforms itself, once on the moon, in a nice swedish house. Six by two meters, with a lovely sloping roof. By tradition cottages in Sweden are built of wood but the moon cottage will be constructed of a very light weight material and be both collapsible and inflatable. It will last about 100 million years.

More info on www.themoonhouse.com

When do they sleep?

Martin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:27:12 +0000

ePub Validator

Martin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:47:37 +0000

If you create an ePub file you can validate it here.

goo.gl

Martin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:39:47 +0000

You can Shorten goo.gl links with goo.gl. I don’t understand why but now you can create links like http://goo.gl/LoeN that don’t go anywhere. This because your browser stops redirecting after some x redirects. This is what IE 8 does:
------------------- URI: goo.gl/LoeN IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:38.453 GET /LoeN HTTP/1.1 ------------------- URI: goo.gl/LoeN IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:38.671 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://goo.gl/iVC1 ------------------- URI: goo.gl/iVC1 IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:38.671 GET /iVC1 HTTP/1.1 ------------------- URI: goo.gl/iVC1 IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:38.734 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://goo.gl/1LyW ------------------- URI: goo.gl/1LyW IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:38.734 GET /1LyW HTTP/1.1 ------------------- URI: goo.gl/1LyW IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:38.906 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://goo.gl/9hdZ ------------------- URI: goo.gl/9hdZ IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:38.906 GET /9hdZ HTTP/1.1 ------------------ URI: goo.gl/9hdZ IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:38.968 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://goo.gl/SSq8 ------------------- URI: goo.gl/SSq8 IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:38.968 GET /SSq8 HTTP/1.1 ------------------- URI: goo.gl/SSq8 IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:39.046 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://goo.gl/J6rK ------------------- URI: goo.gl/J6rK IP: 66.102.13.101:80 Time: 23:08:39.046 GET /J6rK HTTP/1.1 -------------------

But http://goo.gl/LoeN is pointing somewhere. Please let me know if your browser reaches the final URL……..

More Robots

Martin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:26:32 +0000

The inspiration behind the logo design of Google Chrome

Martin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:40:12 +0000

Found by Peet and created by Federico Fieni.

The smell of e-books just got better

Martin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:54:11 +0000

Smell of Books™ is compatible with a wide range of e-reading devices and e-book formats and is 100% DRM-compatible. Whether you read your e-books on a Kindle or an iPhone using Stanza, Smell of Books™ will bring back that real book smell you miss so much. Read more about it.

New vulnerability in quartz.dll Quicktime parsing

Martin — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:40:57 +0000

Microsoft found a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft’s DirectShow. Link

4,032 page Agatha Christie book is over one-foot-thick

Martin — Sat, 23 May 2009 07:37:58 +0000