Earth, Moon, and Jupiter as Seen From Mars

What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars? At 13:00 GMT on 8 May 2003, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) had an opportunity to find out. In addition, a fortuitous alignment of Earth and Jupiter—the first planetary conjunction viewed from another planet—permitted the MOC to acquire an image of both of these bodies and their larger satellites.

SF Magazine Cover Scans – Part 2

Moving away from the printed word in magazines for this post and into art work.

A selection of British magazines reprinting American stories. Published in the 1960s and 1970s.

There is a whole load of stuff that could be written about magazines like these. The subject matter very simplistic compared to comics today but for it’s time very mind expanding to the right person.

SF Magazine Cover Scans – Part 1

So, theres quite a pile of SF magazines on top of the book case spanning the fities to the seventies with a nice selection of covers that pretty much sum up the period.

What’s really great about them for me is the range of names on the covers – some absolute greats there – Algis Budrys, Willy Ley, Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, Frank Herbet etc. These are just the covers of course, the contents are brilliant too and I’ll put a few more of these up as we go along.

New Game on Facebook Helps People with Diabetes Improve Everyday Behaviors

A new game called HealthSeeker(TM) launched today to more than 400 million active users of Facebook®(1), with the goal of helping adults with specific lifestyle and nutritional challenges. While the benefits of the game are available to anyone, HealthSeeker specifically helps people with diabetes make more informed lifestyle decisions in an innovative way that complements their daily use of social media.

Just how big is the Internet?

The Internet is big…real big. Check out this graphic to see the staggering statistics for an average day!

Web Therapy – Retrofuturs

Stéphane Massa-Bida has given some of our most well known memes and websites the retro treatment to give us a nostalgic look back at how things could have been.

100 Years of film effects

A very cool summary of the way in which effects have changed over the years in the film industry, some of the early ones are still a bit hard to unravel when you watch them now but this short video brings you up to date from the earliest through to the most recent cutting edge technology.