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I posted a link to the videos on the Solar Dynamics Observatory website earlier, but it didn't go anywhere. This is fascinating stuff!

Link to more videos: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/firstlight/

From a February press release: "[O]n Feb. 11th, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) lifted off from Cape Canaveral on a five-year mission to study the sun. Researchers have called the advanced spacecraft the "crown jewel" of NASA's heliophysics fleet. SDO will beam back IMAX-quality images of solar explosions and peer beneath the stellar surface to see the sun's magnetic dynamo in action."

The Solar Dynamics Observatory mission About page: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/about.php

I pay $39.99 for 10mbps. And I only seem to get it on speedtests... everything else is pokey as heck.

There are a variety of resources in this thread, including the OP:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=587032

Shamatha, peaceful abiding, or mindfulness meditation is what is referred to in the study. Vipassana goes a bit further than that into active meditation. I've never tried that and have no knowledge of its efficacy.

No ogg or flac. Sigh.

Hopefully enlightenment.

If you don't pan at all, and use AE/AF lock effectively, you can shoot some decent 720p shots of static objects. Otherwise, fuggedaboutit. I shot about 3 clips with mine before giving up. I bought it for still shots, but this Canon makes me a bit envious.

The D90 is easily the worst of the VDSLRs... for video. It's still one of the best mid-range DSLRs out there, if not the best. I have one too; the video is completely broken. While I have no direct experience with the 5D Mark II, rumour has it that the rolling shutter problems are considerably less noticeable.

I've never had cable. Well, honestly, I've never paid for it. I've had roomies who just had to have it, but I never wanted it or had a TV until a few years ago. In the past couple years I've been watching TV series like Battlestar Galactica on DVD, but otherwise my TV is for watching movies.

I had three stickers on my HP laptop, which I promptly removed. This is more a curiosity than something I'd actually stick on my computer, though the Stallman sticker in Book I is rather hilarious.

I think it might be on its deathbed.

Is it? I always wondered about that. My free first line cost me quite a few subsequent lines...

When I was in university, that was pretty common. I think you're right, they're trying to get you back. Like the coke dealer who tells you the first one is free...

I gave up the TV for the same reason, but now I don't bother getting any TV online. I just do without. I sometimes wonder if I could do without the (90%) pablum I read on the internet.

Canada

I used to use Autostitch (http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~brown/autostitch/autostitch.html) running in WINE. When that stopped working for me, I switched to Hugin and haven't looked back. It works well, and is quite powerful. You can even use it to create lens profiles for your lenses to correct distortion. There are very useful tutorials on the Hugin website (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/index.shtml).

Short and long versions have been released. Here's a link to some torrent links listed on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/bmooi/wikileaks_video_j...

I suppose you could move them from UbuntuOne to your local computer to free up space, but it does seem a bit odd.

Ditto.

I have the same tic. It drives my boss crazy. I loathe the New York Times for this. Very frustrating! I also tend to draw squares with my mouse on my desktop. I don't know why.

I wonder if anyone actually thought they were looking at a tachometer in a Toyota with a jammed accelerator as the car and its occupants, convenient videographer and all, hurtled toward an uncertain fate... unlikely in my estimation.

I always assume that the junk I see on TV is either staged or a representative example.

"It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win."

No doubt. The internet is a passive tool; it's the people and organizations using it for good who should be winning prizes. The Nobel Peace Prize should be less nebulous, and for concrete achievement. (Edited for grammar.)

McGill University and University of Western Ontario

I figured it was because the second and third born were too busy working their butts off in the military and the clergy to have time to spare.

Cassette tapes were wonderful. They were eminently portable and could take certain kinds of beating, but they were also vulnerable. Unknown players might kill them with no warning or remedy--especially in-dash car players.

Making a mixed tape for a crush was an exercise in dj-ing and in precision. Dead space wasn't on; you had to fill the exact amount of time, 60 minutes or 90. Finding some of my old ones, given to me by friends and more, with their hand-drawn, carefully designed label and liner notes, was like finding letters from the past, carrying a heavy freight of memories... ahhh!

CDs degraded the experience by being more fragile and less portable (can't slip one in your pants pockets, for example). With the advent of the mp3 player, mixed tapes and cds died. I miss those things.

Yes. Working solely from online sources might seem complete, but the result is impoverished research. It's like a fish in a fishbowl assuming it's got the full depths of the ocean at its fin-tips.

Single page: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/boy-scouts-at-100-years...

I work in an archives and for the reasons you mention many archives--with the exception of various national and large-scale archives--are failing in their efforts to preserve born digital records.

It's a thorny problem, really. In many cases, we have to preserve hardware required to decode information--think u-matic tape players, 5.25" floppies, Iomega zip drives, etc.--as well as software to decode the information on the files.

I'm an all-seeing cuttlefish. However, that was too long for an HN username. Despite seeing it all, I comprehend very little and require the help of my betters to understand. Hence the questions.

Ah, okay, thanks! I guess I assumed that it was infamous because it did something terrible. Still pretty neat!