Due to the complexity and depth of this area of engineering—requiring mastery in fluid mechanics, orbital mechanics, flight dynamics, mathematics, control engineering, materials science, aeroelasticity, avionics, reliability engineering, noise control and flight test—it is also informally used as a term to describe an endeavor requiring great intelligence or technical ability.
“...you’re sitting there looking at streaming data, a big flurry of activity around you, wondering, ‘If the numbers were really right, then why is the satellite pointing the wrong way?’...You’d be amazed at how many stray satellites are out there.“ — Keoki Jackson, Rocket Scientist
Slippin’ Away by RhymeAudial
Some might think this is “Ugly”...it’s not really ugly – it’s just not what you’re used to. To others (non-ASP programmers), the ViewState is the definition of ugly.
Anaesthetists Hymn by Amateur Transplants
via Nick
He’s basically a social networking whore
Is Arron Swartz the new Paul Graham?
Software is a recipe: Too much of any ingredient can throw off the balance. The wrong ingredients can spoil a dish
One Chance by Skipping Girl Vinegar
Every couple of months something reminds me to visit the PostSecret site. I‘m always deeply struck by the raw honesty of the postcards. They truly captivate and touch me.
Every time I visit I‘m tempted to add it to my RSS reader so that I receive a new one every day. But I worry that if I did, the postcards would become everyday and lose their profundity for me.
So I‘ve never subscribed to it, choosing instead to leave it up to serendipity to remind me to visit every now and then.
Are You The Favorite Person Of Anybody?
Directed by MIGUEL ARTETA
Written by MIRANDA JULY
Available from Issue 1 of Wolphin DVD Magazine
A tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream of consciousness, a bit like a remaindered links style linklog but with more than just links. They remind me of an older style of blogging, back when people did sites by hand, before Movable Type made post titles all but mandatory, blog entries turned into short magazine articles, and posts belonged to a conversation distributed throughout the entire blogosphere. Robot Wisdom and Bifurcated Rivets are two older style weblogs that feel very much like these tumblelogs with minimal commentary, little cross-blog chatter, the barest whiff of a finished published work, almost pure editing…really just a way to quickly publish the “stuff” that you run across every day on the web.
As explained by Jason Kottke
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler
