Sam’s random musings

St. Helens Monitor:

Watching a press conference by the USGS. Alert status raised to Level 2. Lots of earthquakes. Time-Depth, map, and cross-sections of MSH seismicity.

Pretty interesting stuff happening here in the Greater Pacific Northwest.

(Via code: theWebSocket;.)

Warthog Launch

From Tom “Work is for suckers”

Discovery Channel :: News :: Mystery of Moving Eyes Solved The mystery of why eyes in certain paintings and photographs appear to move has been solved: it has to do with how we perceive two and three dimensions, a new study finds.

Windows Server Crash Nearly Causes 800-Plane Pile-Up: Matthew Broersma, reporting for Techworld:

The failure was ultimately down to a combination of human error and a design glitch in the Windows servers brought in over the past three years to replace the radio system’s original Unix servers, according to the FAA.

The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times. To avoid this automatic shutdown, technicians are required to restart the system manually every 30 days. An improperly trained employee failed to reset the system, leading it to shut down without warning, the official said.

(Via Wilfredo Sánchez.)

(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)

NY Times: New Company Starts Up…:

NY Times: New Company Starts Up a Challenge to Google.

It’s called Clusty: “Cluster your enterprise search” ????

(Via Scripting News.)

Here we go again: Moore Bush:

For those of you who couldn’t get enough of JibJab’s This Land, here’s some more folk music/Flash fun: Moore Bush.

No, it’s not as good. Sequels never are.

(Via code: theWebSocket;.)

SpaceShipOne rolls to first mark:

SpaceShipOne, the first contender to attempt the $10m Ansari X-Prize, completes its first flight.

Cool

(Via BBC News.)

Mel Brooks Says ‘Spaceballs’ Sequel In The Works:

BlueDino writes “Several news sites are reporting that Mel Brooks will release a sequel to Spaceballs. As far as a release date, Brooks says, ‘Best case scenario: a week before the new Star Wars opens. Worst Case Scenario: a year after the new star wars opens.’”

Fun fun fun

(Via Slashdot.)