A Lonely Isle - A six-episode spoken work essay about Rockall » A Lonely Isle
A lovely bit of audio work from Matthew Sherrett—six short spoken word pieces about the island of Rockall.
A lovely bit of audio work from Matthew Sherrett—six short spoken word pieces about the island of Rockall.
I listen to a lot of podcast episodes. The latest episode of the User Defenders podcast (which is very different from the usual fare) is one of my favourites—the life and times of a NASA engineer working on everything from Apollo to the space shuttle.
You know how they say it doesn’t take a rocket scientist? Well, my Dad is one. On a recent vacation to Florida to celebrate his 80th birthday, he spent nearly three hours telling me his compelling story.
A profile of Chesley Bonestell. It’s amazing to think how much of his work was produced before we had even left this planet.
45 years ago today.
Forget Hyperloop: this is some truly mindblowing technology from Elon Musk. In this latest test, the Grasshopper from SpaceX shows off its lateral movement for a reusable rocket.
Combine that with the sheer power of Falcon Heavy and you’ve got some amazing design and engineering.
The Ballardian beauty of a dying Baikonour.
A terrific little conspiracy theory short story from Charles Stross set at last year’s (very real) 100 Year Starship gathering.
A masterplan for the moon as a global cemetery. Launch the ashes of your loved ones to the moon (leaving the buckyball container in lunarstationary orbit). Given enough ashes and enough buckyballs, the result is a fertile surface and a atmosphere-trapping layer of fullerine. Terraforming via recycled humans.
Or, if that’s too long-term for you, you can buy a scale-model moon jewel.
This remains one of the greatest pieces of documentary footage ever filmed.
So long, Juno. Call me when you get to Jupiter.
An excellent historical overview of rocketry by Neal Stephenson.
Beautiful instrumental music: four tracks for a minimum donation of four dollars. Recommended.
Screw Chuck Norris. Douglas Crockford is the true originator of awesomeness in the audience.
Gravity's rainbow on a Google map.
An excellent overview of Ajax and optimisation.
Even though it breaks up after just two seconds in the air, the moment of take-off is pretty awesome.
This is the first picture of Earth taken from space, specifically from a V2 rocket 60 miles up.
Now when your satanic client tells you to make the logo bigger, you can always rock out.
Check out the beautiful use of Rockwell in this typographical interpretation of a scene from Pulp Fiction.
Douglas Crockford proposes an acid test for JavaScript libraries - "If JSLint finds problems in a library, then dump it and move on to the next one."