Geoff's amazintarium of wonders

Amazing how this lovely bit of ruby code has caused so much fuss.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10802730

It’s just a list of names.  

There are no Geoff Tideys!  Whilst there are 8 Paul Tideys & 5 Sarah Tideys out of the 267 Tideys in total.

Voyager 2 computer is amazingly reset from 8.6 billion miles away:

“Engineers successfully reset a computer onboard Voyager 2 that caused an unexpected data pattern shift, and the spacecraft resumed sending properly formatted science data back to Earth on Sunday, May 23. Mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., had been operating the spacecraft in engineering mode since May 6. They took this action as they traced the source of the pattern shift to the flip of a single bit in the flight data system computer that packages data to transmit back to Earth. In the next week, engineers will be checking the science data with Voyager team scientists to make sure instruments onboard the spacecraft are processing data correctly.”

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-151

I wonder if the command was applied using SSH or Remote Desktop ;-)

Amazing DIY.  A guy builds a homemade nuclear reactor in NY:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10385853.stm

He’s earned his nuclear boy scout badge, like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

Amazing Star Wars Art by a very talented Dreamworks artist.  Click R2 for lots more!

45 years ago today, Ed White was the first man to conduct a spacewalk.  

More cool pics here:

http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/27592/americas-first-space-walk

Funny I was showing this to my 2 year old today, as he needs to know about these types of amazing feats:

Amazing, I may type more than one hundred and forty characters of textual loveliness into this little box. Is this a good or a bad thing? ;-)