Seattle Samurai Book
Kelly has made a beautiful book:
Experience the lives of the first Japanese Americans in the Pacific Northwest through the cartoons and illustrations by Sam Goto
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European astronaut rookies make the grade - BBC News
Rosemary and her dad are regular attendees of Brighton Astro so everyone is pretty excited about this news!
The Great Distractor — Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
James has penned a sweeping arc from the The Mechanical Turk, Sesame Street, and Teletubbies to Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
Asgardia - The Space Nation
Remember those offshore forts that would get taken over and repurposed as tax/data havens? Well, this is like that …but in space. Half design fiction, and half ponzi scheme, this will give those libertarian seasteaders a run for the money (in a made-up currency, of course).
Orbital Reflector
Art. In. Spaaaaaace!
Orbital Reflector is a sculpture constructed of a lightweight material similar to Mylar. It is housed in a small box-like infrastructure known as a CubeSat and launched into space aboard a rocket. Once in low Earth orbit at a distance of about 350 miles (575 kilometers) from Earth, the CubeSat opens and releases the sculpture, which self-inflates like a balloon. Sunlight reflects onto the sculpture making it visible from Earth with the naked eye — like a slowly moving artificial star as bright as a star in the Big Dipper.
Open Access at ESA
Images, videos, sounds, and 3D models are now available from the European Space Agency under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license.
Ambition
A beautiful sci-fi short from the European Space Agency, inspired by the Rosetta mission.
Tablesaw - A Flexible Tool for Responsive Tables
Those lovely people at Filament Group share some of their techniques for making data tables work across a range of screen sizes.
SkyCube: The First Satellite Launched by You! by Tim DeBenedictis — Kickstarter
If this Kickstarter project gets launched, it will literally get launched.
scott_lynch: Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain
It turns out that Big Bird is a god-defying instantiation of Moorcock’s Eternal Champion. Magnificent!
Big Bird and Snuffy go with him to stand in the Hall of Two Truths at the gate to the afterlife. The gigantic foam balls on these guys! Sure, Elmo loves you, but when’s the last time Elmo held anyone’s hand on the threshold of eternal night?
The Space Game
By playing this canvas game, you can help the European Space Agency plan missions to the planets of our solar system.