Wired:
Amazon will host a media event in the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City on Feb. 9. The timing and the venue strongly suggest that Amazon will use the event to announce Kindle 2.0, which industry watchers say will likely be a slimmer and better-designed device, aimed at spurring adoption by more mainstream [...]
Damn – venturing out into the snow for burritos today was nerve-wracking fun.
Bulletflight:
the Bulletflight ballistics calculator, which predicts the trajectory of bullets fired from high-powered sniper rifles by taking into account half a dozen variables including wind speed, distance, outside temperature and altitude. After digesting all the information, Bulletflight tells you where exactly on the sniper scope you should position your target in order to hit it.
Sweet! [...]
Dammit – I’m trying to buy the FLAC release of Kangding Ray’s Automne Fold but boomkat’s down (what a logo, huh?). Wait – it’s back. The internet has trained me to expect instant gratification – I was getting really annoyed for a minute there.
Astronomy Picture of the Day:
In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet’s shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit [...]
Three things I like! The Fun Years, container shipping, and general weirdness.
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