Behold! A positive application of the old saying, “What is seen can never be unseen.”
WARNING: The images in this gallery are dangerously, addictively cute. Once you have seen them, you will want to see more, and more. And more. And you may never finish what you were working on before you saw them. But it’s probably too late for you anyway, because you’ve already seen the baby ocelot, so never mind.
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Skull-A-Day takes a look to see what’s inside of a Jack-O’-Lantern.
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FlowingData presents Data Underload #24 showing a typical breakdown of Halloween candy distribution.
[via The Daily What]
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A live webcam stream of the Mars rover “Curiosity” being built in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. It provides a weirdly mesmerizing backstage view of the nuts-and-bolts process that results in an extraterrestrial explorer. There’s a chat window where viewers (1820 as I write this, mid-morning on a weekday) can ask questions for a JPL rep to answer in real time. The tandem of video and comment is educational in all sorts of ways. For instance, I’ve learned that the construction of a Mars rover apparently requires a lot of guys to stand around in futuristic white jumpsuits, making the scene look like an outtake from Woody Allen’s “Sleeper.” And as a bonus, I’ve learned what what the jumpsuits are called:
NASAJPL: Curiosity’s clean room technicians are covered head-to-toe in white smocks, aka “bunny suits,” to protect against [giving] Earthly contaminants a ride on the rover to Mars.
There are worse ways to spend a Thursday. Curiosity will launch late next year for her seven-month trip to Mars.
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If you don’t have time to watch the full 90 minute Macworld 2008 keynote, Mahalo Daily has just the solution, The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote (in 60 Seconds).