Planetary Names: Target Coordinate Systems →
planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov
KML and shapefiles from the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
July 2010
June 2010
“A space is a punctuation mark…”
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from The Very Long History of Emoticons
(via GOOD)
“It’s all about the user kicking ass. (…) People are not into your tool, they are into what the tool enables.”
—Kathy Sierra (via ignore the code)
“Call it Reader’s Despair Syndrome, a condition that is afflicting New York’s young and old with equal viciousness, but which tends to produce the most dramatic symptoms in people in their 20s and 30s, who retain hope that they will one day become more productive and virtuous in their Internet reading habits. “It makes me very sad, obviously, when I face the fact that there are like 115 items and I know that I’ll never read them,” wailed a 25-year-old hedge fund analyst at a rooftop party over the weekend. “And it’s like, why can’t I be a good enough person to know things about anything? Why am I so pathetic that I can’t even read, like, 100 words a day? And then I have to hit the ‘pretend everything is read’ button, which is basically like hitting the ‘lie to yourself’ button. It’s embarrassing. I hate myself when I do it. It’s like the biggest possible failure you could have in your entire life, basically.”
—Feed Me, I’m Hungry! New Yorkers Skim, Freak, Purge as RSS Reading Mounts | The New York Observer (via interestingsnippets) (via megpickard)
- Stephen Fry: A few weeks after announcing their discovery to the American Astronomical Society, they had to admit that they'd actually made a mistake in their calculations, and the universe was, in fact, more a sort-of taupe or beige-ish colour. I thought it was Gay Whisper with a touch of Amber Glow, erm, which are my favourite, er... This is... My pancake colour is called Gay Whisper. Did you know that? It actually is. Literally true. Gay Whisper.
- Alan Davies: "Ga—" Is "Gay Whispers" like "Chinese Whispers"?
- Stephen Fry: Only, more fun.
