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July 21, 2005
The Moon
In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on this day in 1969, Google have added some NASA imagery to their Maps interface. Here you can view the Apollo landing sites and, if you zoom in all the way, you will discover what the moon is really made of.
April 27, 2005
Word Count
The WordCount website presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it.
The word Birth is ranked 1964 (the year I was born). Spooky!
January 25, 2004
January 18, 2004
Magic Square
In 1514 Albrecht Dürer created an engraving called Melancholia that included a magic square. In the bottom row of his 4 X 4 magic square he placed the numbers "15" and "14" side by side to reveal the date of his engraving.
January 06, 2004
Postcard from Mars
Today NASA Spirit Rover transmitted sharpest picture ever taken of surface of Mars. NASA said the "postcard" had three to four times the resolution of any other pictures but I don't know how they could miss the first sign of life on the top right corner of the picture!
Click here to see the interactive image.