The primary camera on the Hubble Space Telescope shut down over the weekend after the backup power supply failed, the primary power supply having already gone out last June. The telescope’s remaining sensors are still in operation, but the camera will not be restored until 2008 when a scheduled Shuttle service mission will upgrade it beyond its previous capabilities.
Centripetal Notion// archive
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Andy Mckee: Drifting
(video, audio)
Regina Spektor
(…) She continued her piano studies with Sonia Vargas, professor at Manhattan School of Music. She soon began writing songs for voice and piano, and went on to complete the four-year studio composition program at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in three years, graduating with honors. After a year spent working on a butterfly farm in Wisconsin, as you do, she returned to settle in NYC. She says she was originally only interested in classical music, but eventually developed an interest in other styles including hip-hop, rock and punk. She gained recognition in NYC’s anti-folk scene, performing regularly at a number of venues including the East Village’s Sidewalk Cafe. (…)
Comet McNaught Redux
image © John White
Miss seeing Comet McNaught due to weather, location and/or laziness? Me too, enter the interbrainz.
IMAGES [Flickr photos tagged w/ "mcnaught"] (via kottke)
Previously: Comet McNaught Visible In Daylight
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Jill Greenberg
Jill Greenberg photographs a lot more than monkeys, but I mean … the monkeys.
Adventure Time
Rhombus!
VideoJug
Everything you don’t know about life, but won’t admit, explained on film. I don’t need it but I thought you might.
Channel Frederator Awards
The first annual Channel Frederator Awards were held last night in Hollywood, featuring some of the best independant animated shorts from last year.
Rare Shark Filmed, ‘Living Fossil’
“A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is about 2,000 feet under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week.”
Blue Monday
“More than 85 per cent of us expect the future to be happier than it is now, according to researchers. (…)”
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