"Russian blogs this post went viral. It was called “Our girls - Their Cars”, many have left comments like “Yep, our cars are not cool, but they don’t have the girls as cool as ours!”."
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Russian girls and their cars
Every one knows that Russian and Eastern European Girls are the best! See what cars some of them drive.
"Russian blogs this post went viral. It was called “Our girls - Their Cars”, many have left comments like “Yep, our cars are not cool, but they don’t have the girls as cool as ours!”."
"Russian blogs this post went viral. It was called “Our girls - Their Cars”, many have left comments like “Yep, our cars are not cool, but they don’t have the girls as cool as ours!”."
Thursday, May 7, 2009
7 Surprising uses for the iPhone’s camera
How to use your phone's built-in camera for more than just snapshots
These days, a 2-megapixel camera may not seem like much. But add Web access, a pocket-size Mac, and third-party apps to the mix, and presto! That humble camera is now a personal assistant and digital artist in one. Here are just a few of the ways you can extend your camera.
See in the dark
Take wider shots
Get a personal shopper
Find your mobile photos fast
Supercharge your photo browser
Track down a font
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Space cowgirl salvages NASA junk, finds 'Pic of the Century'
"NASA was so preoccupied with getting an astronaut to the moon ahead of the Soviets that little attention was paid to the mountains of scientific data that flowed back to Earth from its early space missions. The data, stored on miles of fragile tapes, grew into mountains that were packed up and sent to a government warehouse with crates of other stuff.
And so they eventually came to the attention of Nancy Evans, a no-nonsense woman with flaming red hair that fit her sometimes-impatient nature. She had been trained as a biologist, but within the sprawling space agency she had found her niche as an archivist."
Charged with archiving 2,500 unreadable NASA data tapes from the '66 Lunar Orbiter mission, a determined Nancy Evans scoured govt salvage yards to find a one-ton FR-900 Ampex tape drive to read them. Too costly for NASA, she retired, the drives in her garage. Thru stroke of luck, space junkies found her on a blog, and restored NASA's historic pics.
read more | digg story
And so they eventually came to the attention of Nancy Evans, a no-nonsense woman with flaming red hair that fit her sometimes-impatient nature. She had been trained as a biologist, but within the sprawling space agency she had found her niche as an archivist."
Charged with archiving 2,500 unreadable NASA data tapes from the '66 Lunar Orbiter mission, a determined Nancy Evans scoured govt salvage yards to find a one-ton FR-900 Ampex tape drive to read them. Too costly for NASA, she retired, the drives in her garage. Thru stroke of luck, space junkies found her on a blog, and restored NASA's historic pics.
read more | digg story
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Color Russian Photos Taken 100 Years Ago!
Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images. Tsar Nicholas II fully supported Sergei's ambitious plan to document the Russian Empire, and provided a specially equipped railroad car which enclosed a darkroom for Sergei to develop his glass plates. He took hundreds of these color photos all over Russia from 1909 through 1915. Amazingly, this is the same technique used today on the most recent Mars lander, Phoenix. It has a black and white camera what uses several filters to approximate a color image.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
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