Lunar Eclipse Graces Sky Saturday, June 26, 2010 – LINK

A partial lunar eclipse will be visible across much of North America early Saturday morning, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. As Earth’s long shadow falls across the Moon, the part in the shadow will turn dark. It will look as though a chunk were missing from the Moon. via stardate.org Prime viewing will [...]

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AT-AT DAY AFTERNOON

via youtube.com Yep. This is awesome. Enjoy!

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Lunch Time

This little guy was hanging out by the Sabino Canyon Tram ticket office. (1070 KB) Watch on posterous Posted via email from the runoff

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Putting Context to the Gulf Oil Disaster

Using Google Maps, the site Ifitwasmyhome.com helps put some context to the size of the oil spill in the gulf. Check out how large it is compared to my home state. This was a sobering moment this morning. How does it measure up to where you are? The site also has a lot of useful [...]

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Resolving the iPhone resolution – LINK

In other words, at 12 inches from the eye, Jobs claims, the pixels on the new iPhone are so small that they exceed your eye’s ability to detect them. Pictures at that resolution are smooth and continuous, and not pixellated. However, a display expert has disputed this. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Industries, was quoted both [...]

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Backyard Water Park

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Slip n’ Slide part 3

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Slip n’ Slide part 2

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Slip n’ Slide part 1

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Origin of the OSI Model – LINK

As ubiquitous as the OSI model is in the world of network engineering, it occurred to me recently that I could not recall seeing a standard document defining the model referenced even once in all of the books I’ve read. Odd. A little digging turned up a formal definition of the model in the form [...]

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