The Cranky Nerd

Something new I’m trying. Might not last long.

badlucyband:

Our song “Forward” will be aired on national television to millions of viewers this week during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!

Tune in to NBC 9am-12pm (all time zones) & turn up the volume when you see a giant balloon monkey strapped with a jet-pack :)

In part, thanks to awesome fans…

160,000 light years away sits the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular dwarf galaxy that orbits our own Milky Way galaxy. It’s a fascinating object, actually, filled with stars, gas, dust, and all the usual trinkets a galaxy has.

It also has an assortment of globular clusters — roughly spherical collections of a few hundred thousand stars bound by their own gravity orbiting the cluster center like bees buzzing around a hive. NGC 1846 is one such globular cluster, and it looks like most of the others, if a bit sparse and loosely distributed. But it has something that does make it rather special. You can see it if you peruse this lovely Hubble Space Telescope picture that was just released:

In late 2008, a few onlookers believed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would bring the end of the world. Three years later, our planet remains intact, but the European particle smasher may have made its first crack in modern physics.

thedockpodcast:

I Hate Times New Roman

It’s an all workflow episode. We talk about work on the Web in general and how our devices help and hurt us as human beings who do stuff. There’s a bit of Mac talk as we discuss how we define work and play on our computers. Then we talk about Microsoft, which makes the…