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.
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Feet on the Ground, Eyes on the Stars: The True Story of a Real Rocket Man with G.A. “Jim” Ogle
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.
Meet the Father of Modern Space Art | Atlas Obscura
A profile of Chesley Bonestell. It’s amazing to think how much of his work was produced before we had even left this planet.
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 on Vimeo
45 years ago today.
Grasshopper Divert | Single Cam - YouTube
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.
Kosmograd: The death of Kosmograd
The Ballardian beauty of a dying Baikonour.
A Tall Tail by Charles Stross | Tor.com
A terrific little conspiracy theory short story from Charles Stross set at last year’s (very real) 100 Year Starship gathering.
WORLDMOON
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.
James Burke Classic : The Famous Rocket Takeoff Scene - YouTube
This remains one of the greatest pieces of documentary footage ever filmed.
Atlas V Juno launch - August 5, 2011 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
So long, Juno. Call me when you get to Jupiter.
Space stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. - By Neal Stephenson - Slate Magazine
An excellent historical overview of rocketry by Neal Stephenson.
New Mexico EP | The Orchid
Beautiful instrumental music: four tracks for a minimum donation of four dollars. Recommended.
Douglas Crockford Facts
Screw Chuck Norris. Douglas Crockford is the true originator of awesomeness in the audience.
London V2 Rocket Sites...Mapped - Londonist: London News, Food, Arts & Events
Gravity's rainbow on a Google map.
Douglas Crockford: "Ajax Performance" on Yahoo! Video
An excellent overview of Ajax and optimisation.
TG Video: X-Wing rocket interview and in-flight disintegration
Even though it breaks up after just two seconds in the air, the moment of take-off is pretty awesome.
V2-panorama.jpg (JPEG Image, 3074x1816 pixels)
This is the first picture of Earth taken from space, specifically from a V2 rocket 60 miles up.
Make the logo bigger
Now when your satanic client tells you to make the logo bigger, you can always rock out.
Motionographer | Motion graphics, design, animation, filmmaking, vfx and bombastic banter» Blog Archive » Say What Again
Check out the beautiful use of Rockwell in this typographical interpretation of a scene from Pulp Fiction.
Yahoo! 360° - The Department of Style - Choose Your Ajax
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."