Earth, the little blue dot

NASA captured this amazing image of our blue planet from Saturn with its Cassini spacecraft.

In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of 33 footprints covering the entire Saturn ring system (including Saturn itself).  At each footprint, images were taken in different spectral filters for a total of 323 images: some were taken for scientific purposes and some to produce a natural colour mosaic.  This is the only wide-angle footprint that has the Earth-moon system in it.

Source: NASA

Hard drive from 30 years ago

Well, the busy first half of the year is over. It's about time to return to blogging. First up, spotted this really interesting pic on Geeks are Sexy comparing computer storage over the past three decades. Wow!

Source: Geeks are Sexy

Riker from TNG sits funny

Why does Commander Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation do this? And where's the blooper reel of him smacking his dangly bits on a slightly higher chair?


Source: Geeks are Sexy

Mean Tweets

We've all done this. I mean, I haven't, of course, but most people have... If you have a Twitter account, there's a good chance you've mentioned some celebrity in a Tweet and was pretty mean about them. Jimmy Kimmel got celebs to read out some nasty tweets about them. Really good stuff. Featuring: Bieb, Gomez, Biel, Alba, Ferrel, Borat, etc.