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The real Bender's eyes have square pupils.

Though there's no Neopixel library at the level of the current one for Arduino, you could drive the whole system off of the Imp.

Mozilla built two RGB LED tickers, driven by an Imp, and installed them on their blimp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz3fEYFDl2o

It's spinning in the right direction if you're a satellite in a mid-altitude equatorial orbit.

Their 'Mentors' page is... interesting: http://socraticlabs.com/Mentors.html

The Kepler analysis team has only gone through the first two years worth of data.

There are still two more years worth of exoplanets for us.

Some Ekranoplans (like the Lun mentioned in the article) have the ability to fly above the ground effect zone, though less efficiently.

If rogue waves (or other rough sea) can be spotted far enough ahead, the plane could increase altitude over brief rough spots, settling back on to its ground effect cushion once calmer waters were reached.

Because it's travelling so much faster than surface waves, the lidar (or whatever scanning system) would only have to consider a relatively narrow field of view in front of the craft.

Thank you! Wow, on a Retina display this looks just amazing.

These seem to be very low resolution (~500px). Are there high resolutions available? I tried finding one for Van Gogh's 'Irises' and couldn't.

Ahh, yes. A little digging shows that these tests are done at their McGregor, TX test site, and McGregor is well within hearing and visual range of the tests.

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=spacex&data=!1m4!1m3!...

A launch is completely different from a private short-range test on a closed site.

You could watch a launch live, and they are very public about the timing, purpose, and location of launches before they happen.

The Grasshopper tests (to my knowledge) are not open for public observation, and I haven't seen any media coverage prior to tests, so if there was an unsuccessful test it wouldn't be as obvious as an unsuccessful launch attempt.

My question was whether this is by design, and if there was an unsuccessful test whether they would showcase that as well, in the manner that unsuccessful launches are well documented public 'learning experiences'.

Does SpaceX document all their tests publicly? Or are we just seeing the successful ones? (If they've all been successful ones, will we see unsuccessful ones if they come in the future?)

The spellchecker doesn't actually kick in all that often. The better solution is to give flags back differentiating between 'unlikely' and 'impossible' email addresses.

Oh the edge cases will be so angry. There are a very few engineers at Google who have Gmail account names shorter than 6 characters. It's not the norm, but they exist. Their addresses can't be validated.

I'm sure there are special cases all over the place. It would be nice if Mailgun differentiated between 'this address is just malformed' and 'from what I know of [ISP], this address oughtn't exist'.

People have waited through so many failed attempts to record the drop that nobody wants to mention that they didn't 'really' record an unassisted drop. The bead is still connected when it hits bottom, and the tail doesn't break until they raised up the suspended platform.

Check the video and notice that the suspended vessel jumps about 2 inches higher just after the drop.

It's a good recording, but I'm looking forward to a better one in 2026.

I read his blog post and wondered why he didn't just OAuth in. You're absolutely right. I just assumed he was on a Gmail account.

I really like the side-by-side comparison, buy why use a dark, non-default background for the iOS 6 home screen and a light one for the iOS 7 home screen? It looks like you're tossing objectivity to push a point.

Yeah, "I am high as a kite" and "Finally" are two I like to put in when I can. Gruber defined the genre. I just like to visit it.

You should. It's really good.

This is a superb point. When the photo is supposed to document the interview the photographer can't be the interviewer. It would be like a news reporter filming themselves.

An iPhone is never faster than a pro DSLR. From hip to eye, power on and shooting in under a second. There's a reason the power switch is part of the shutter.

Read it again, and note that not all news photography is photojournalism.

Take someone with a DSLR on their hip and someone with an iPhone in their pocket and see who can get the shots you want. Subjects don't stand still and they won't wait for you to be ready.

And my comment wasn't about photojournalism. Thinking journalists can become photojournalists by telling them to snap pictures (with their phone or with professional glass) is even more ridiculous than the Sun-Times is being.

Don't conflate News Photography with Photojournalism. The second is a subset of the first. News Photography is a field that requires greater diversity than 'being there at f/8 (in daylight, with a fast lens and a ready camera)'.

There are sports photographers, portrait photographers, close subject photographers, artistic photographers and, yes, photographers who need to be on the scene at breaking events, where a wide shot and being close are key.

I agree with everything you said, but it doesn't negate anything I said.

I do joke, but with truth. As Al Franken popularized it, I was 'kidding on the square'.

You think you're using hyperbole but many articles going out nowadays never get read by an editor who actually edits for tone, readability, spelling, or even accuracy.

And the janitorial staff? You might be surprised to know how many of the actual journalistic sites you read don't even have offices, or at least not ones with desks for writers. Most of these people work at home.

Will they teach their journalists how to take shallow depth-of-field shots and long telephoto shots with their iPhones? Probably not, since you can't.

Given the 'yes and' style of derivative news reporting commonplace today, the Sun-Times might be more effective firing the writers, keeping the photographers, and teaching them actual journalism.

Quirky's blog post is also an informative read: http://www.quirky.com/blog/post/2013/04/quirky-meets-an-imp/

Nothing. The pins were allocated such that plugging an imp into an SD-card slot won't hurt it or the device, and putting an SD card into an imp slot won't hurt either the card or the device.

Hi, Electric Imp co-founder here. We made the card format first to facilitate folks who wanted to make products that could optionally use an imp, as well as those who wanted one permanently installed.

We're currently developing a solder-down module, but some vendors still find the card more attractive because the slots are very easy to integrate on a board.