links for 2009-07-21
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Good article about what precautions to take to have a good chance of getting good aurora pictures with a digital SLR.
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"We introduce RDFa, which provides a set of XHTML attributes to augment visual data with machine-readable hints. We show how to express simple and more complex datasets using RDFa, and in particular how to turn the existing human-visible text and links into machine-readable data without repeating content."
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So it's the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing and humans walking on the Moon. I used to like to play with the fantasy of the event having significance for my parents — I was born 4.5 months later.
Google is putting online, on Google Code, the Command Module code (Comanche054) and Lunar Module code (Luminary099), transcribed from scanned images to run on yaAGC (an open source AGC emulator) by the Virtual AGC and AGS project.
The comment on ll 179/180 of LUNAR_LANDING_GUIDANCE_EQUATIONS.s reads "# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE".
chris @ July 22, 2009