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Entries for November, 2006

8 years of JK’s Daily Photo Project

I know I’m following in the YouTube footsteps of Ahree Lee and Noah Kalina, but hopefully you’ll appreciate the fact that the music isn’t so sentimental.
And thanks to YouTube’s FLV compression, this is half as fast (15 fps vs. 30 fps) as it should be. So, you’re missing out on half the images. Better image [...]

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The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

n 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.
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Mars Glass Worm

The mysterious image shown above was taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera onboard the Mars Global Surveyor. Take a close look. It resembles a glass-like structure, almost like a tube. It looks segmented, like an earthworm.
These “beasts” are 50 meters across and kilometers long.
Arthur C. Clarke said: “I’m still waiting for an explanation of that [...]

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Botha, bastion of white rule, dies

Former South African President P.W. Botha, the defiant face of white rule at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, died at his home on Tuesday aged 90, the South African Press Association reported.
“Botha died at home, peacefully,” SAPA quoted a member of his security staff, Frikkie Lucas, as saying.
Botha, known widely as “The Great Crocodile” [...]

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