Listening to: Local Hero / Wild Theme (Live) - Dire Straits

The new crewed NASA vehicle will be called the ‘Orion’. It will be conical in shape and will carry 6 to the ISS and 4 to the Moon:

Orion will be 16.5 feet in diameter and have a mass of about 25 tons. Inside, it will have more than 2.5 times the volume of an Apollo capsule. The spacecraft will return humans to the moon to stay for long periods as a testing ground for the longer journey to Mars.

BBC World has more details as does NASA (oddly enough).

UPDATE: It’s to be built by Lockheed Martin.

Listening to: The White Room - The KLF

backlit

Originally uploaded by origami joel.

Listening to: Last Train To Transcentral (Live From The Lost Continent) - The KLF

MocoLoco has a short post about GloFab.

What I found most interesting from an applications point of view was this comment over at Interactive Architecture dot Org:

The light source can be anything from a lamp to the sun.

It strikes me as being a great way of getting natural light into a space.

Listening to: What Time Is Love (LP Mix) - The KLF

Where is this sort of stairway going to take you?

src: pasta and vinegar

Listening to: Stand By The Jams - The KLF

Gnarls Barkley + Notorious BIG. Worth a listen - it seems to lack the charm that I have found in other mash-ups, but it is fun.

src: Boing Boing

Listening to: Love Sensation - Thoneick, Eddie & Kurd Maverick

Originally uploaded by Richard Sweeney.

Listening to: Give Me Love (Lützenkirchen Remix) - Coburn

Having done more than my fair share of hard-drive monstering I found this article on Intel’s EFI interesting.

For EFI, Intel designed a new partition table with room for far more than MBR’s four primary, bootable partitions. The standard EFI partition table allows for 128. Each partition is identified by two GUIDs: the first identifies the type of partition (such as Mac HFS, or PC Data), the second is a serial number for that specific partition.

While I can’t ever see myself juggling file partition info ever again it’s reassuring to know that the 4 partition limit of MBR is a thing of the past.

Listening to: Antique Toy - Future Sound of London

From BBC World:

Images from a camera orbiting Mars have shown the 100mph jets of carbon dioxide erupt through ice at the planet’s south pole, Arizona State University says.

From JPL:

Jets of carbon dioxide gas erupting from the ice cap as it warms in the spring carry dark sand and dust high aloft. The dark material falls back to the surface, creating dark patches on the ice cap which have long puzzled scientists. Deducing the eruptions of carbon dioxide gas from under the warming ice cap solves the riddle of the spots. It also reveals that this part of Mars is much more dynamically active than had been expected for any part of the planet.

Listening to: 07+-+Uniform+_28London+Fabric_2C+16.03.06_29 - Bloc Party

Butterflies in the Tessellation Expo

Originally uploaded by EricGjerde.

Listening to: Love Show (Tom Novy Remix) - Skye

Channel 9 has a video of the MS research OS, Singularity, booting and running on hardware… really interesting stuff:

src: OSNews