OS X Mavericks and OpenMeta tags
sabarfun:Here’s a really good article on to coalescing of open-meta tagging tools and the OS X Mavericks Spotlight based tagging system. The article is a fantastic reference. Originally posted on...
View Articlefreshmeat.net, 1997-2014
Originally posted on jeffcovey.net: A former coworker pointed me to the news today that freshmeat has suddenly ceased operations. I spent the rest of the day flooded with memories and the urge to jot...
View ArticleStarship Dimensions
Jeff Russell’s ‘Starship Dimensions‘ examines the relative size of different types of space, air and land craft from the known #scifi multiverse. The #ui is simple and effective. It’s also been on the...
View ArticleAvoiding “Sagan Syndrome.” Why Astronomers and Journalists should pay heed to...
Originally posted on Praxtime: A new paper using data from NASA’s Kepler telescope came out recently, estimating that 22% of Sun-like stars harbor Earth-sized planets. This is a big increase over...
View ArticleThe Washington Post verifies ‘the pause’ in global warming
Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Jason Samenow sends word of a new article in WaPo that does some of the same sort of surface temperature analyses we see right here on WUWT. Seeing what a...
View ArticleHow to write a minimal WebKit browser in 30 lines of Swift
Originally posted on practicalswift.com: This article shows how to write a minimal WebKit browser in 30 lines of Swift. This is what the result will look like: Now on to the code – We start with Swift...
View ArticleNew: Back up your feedly to Dropbox [Pro]
Originally posted on Open feedly: We’re excited to tell you about our latest feedly Pro integration: Dropbox Vault. Dropbox Vault automatically backs up your tagged and saved articles, and a list of...
View ArticleJennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image
It hardly looks like an image that shook the world. But this photograph, taken in 1987 by John Knoll, could be as central to the modern visual vernacular as Eadweard Muybridge’s shots of galloping...
View ArticleLand ‘evapotranspiration’ taking unexpected turn: huge parts of world are...
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a group of researchers...
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