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Really inspiring portraits by Andrew McConnell, from the series The Last Colony.
Really, really good.
@NASA:
New shuttle launch dates! STS-133 is targeted to launch at ~4:33pET on Nov. 1 & STS-134 at 4:19p on Feb. 26, 2011. nasa.gov/mission…
IEEE:
Rob Spence demonstrates his bionic camera eye. A wireless camera in a specially designed prosthetic relays a video feed to an antenna that he presses to his cheek. The feed is shown on the screen behind him as a colleague films.
I tell my bosses at the Times every day that if the company foots the bill I’ll sign up for this procedure immediately. I think they think I’m kidding.
Cool Hunting: Stream Francis and the Lights' new album from a pioneering HTML5 site
It’ll Be Better now has an embeddable HTML 5 player, freeing it completely from Flash (if you so desire). The embedded version works great in iOS 4.
There’s actually no separate embedded player. The script creates an iframe in-place with the whole site, which knows it’s being embedded and flips into a liquid layout mode that works at (almost) any width. Same markup, same assets, same javascript except some added layout rules to keep the text sizes and aspect ratio within bounds.
