Illuminating solar blinds

Illuminating solar blinds. Great idea. But you’ll need another curtain to cover them when you want to sleep (or do they have an off switch?).

Big picture: Sichuan’s earthquake

Not the best pictures I’ve seen, but amazing how fast China reacts. I doubt we’d have a waste dispoal factory up and running six months after floods. Sichuan’s earthquake, six months later.

Big Picture: ISS

How could you avoid getting distracted by the view? Just extraordinary that we can construct platforms to do this and take this kind of picture. Science and technology don’t have have a counter to religion, heh?NZ from space

PDF Toolkit

Pdftk is a free PDF maker, splitter, joiner. There’s a graphical front end for it that is cryptic but functional. CutePDF appears to create good looking PDF files, and is also free in its basic incarnation.

Big Picture: Micro

Big Picture: micro. Not sure what I like best here. Not the Obama heads, certainly.Snout