3.5 out of 5 » Misc

90-year-old man recounts a night during WWII

James — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:05:29 +0000

Top Million Web Sites

James — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:01:36 +0000

http://nmap.org/favicon/

A large-scale scan of the top million web sites (per Alexa traffic data) was performed in early 2010 using the Nmap Security Scanner and its scripting engine.

We retrieved each site’s icon by first parsing the HTML for a link tag and then falling back to /favicon.ico if that failed. 328,427 unique icons were collected, of which 288,945 were proper images. The remaining 39,482 were error strings and other non-image files. Our original goal was just to improve our http-favicon.nse script, but we had enough fun browsing so many icons that we used them to create the visualization below.

The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. When both a bare domain name and its “www.” counterpart used the same icon, only one of them was counted. The smallest icons–those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach–are scaled to 16×16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440. Since your web browser would choke on that, we have created the interactive viewer below (click and drag to pan, double-click to zoom, or type in a site name to go right to it).

Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean’s Blue Hole

James — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:36:51 +0000

FREE FALL: World champion freediver Guillaume Nery special dive at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world filmed entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier. Edited my BLUENERY (c). Music: ARCHIVE – you make me feel.

Thanks Danny.

Dredd, Marvel, Buzz.

James — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:51:06 +0000

Cherenkov Radiation

James — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:20:39 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

The characteristic blue glow of nuclear reactors is due to Cherenkov radiation. It is named after Russian scientist Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, the 1958 Nobel Prize winner who was the first to characterise it rigorously.

go WV pro + Urban skiing Pittsburgh.

James — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:16:59 +0000

WV. Timberline . Off piste. pipelines. Whitegrass.

go WV pro from jacob lutz.

In Pittsburgh, we don’t get two-plus feet of snow in 24 hours – but that happened two weeks ago. And some people knew what they should do…

Icelandic Drive-in

James — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:21:08 +0000

^ clicky

78% N, 21% O, 0.25% H2O, 0.93% Ar, 0.04% CO2. Part II.

James — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:53:27 +0000

Longest words.

James — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:00:07 +0000

RGB Experimental Music Laboratory

James — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:27:40 +0000

RGB MusicLab converts RGB (Red, Green and Blue) value of an image and surface points (X, Y, Z) of 3D object to chromatic scale sounds. The program reads RGB value of pixels from the top left to the bottom right of an image. One pixel makes a harmony of three note of RGB value, and the length of note is determined by brightness of the pixel. RGB value 120 or 121 is the middle C, and RGB value 122 or 123 is added a half steps of the scale that is C#. Pure black that is R=0, G=0, B=0 is no sounds.

http://www.kenjikojima.com/rgbmusiclab/