Boston Globe: Worcester woman’s two-faced cats makes the record booksTwo-faced and two-headed cats generally live for days or weeks at the most. "Frank and Louie"—one cat, two faces—is twelve years old now, and is doing just fine. (Other than being not entirely pleasant to look at.) Twan van Laarhoven: Finding rectanglesSolving problems like this is …
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Links for August 10th
Cult of Mac: How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple FanboyA lot of us Mac users started off as hardcore DOS/Windows fans. Wikipedia: Full moon namesThere are special names to refer to the full moon in every month. August's is the "grain moon," April's 's the "egg moon," February's is the "snow moon," …
Flickr is auto-IDing astronomical objects.
Astronomy photos on Flickr are automatically being analyzed and labelled with constellations, planets, and other objects. The group doing the IDing then has a big corpus of astronomical images, which has got to be valuable. Man, that is so cool. The physical coordinates and the timestamp go a long way towards providing the basic data …
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