Lucky Disasters

*OR* How I stopped worrying and learned to love my karma.

• Things I… Like?

  • A ring of fire forms around a new supernova [Space Porn] September 3, 2010
    A 6-trillion-mile-wide ring of gas encircles a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Supernova 1987A, and the explosions from the supernova are lighting it up like a candle, creating what will become a glowing ring. More » […]
    Charlie Jane Anders
  • NASA HD iPad App Clears the Tower [Space] September 3, 2010
    NASA's new iPad app lets space-fans catch up with all the latest happenings, track satellites, watch NASA TV, leaf through its archive of fantastic imagery and much, much more. More » […]
    Gary Cutlack
  • Homeroom Security: book about the insanity of zero-tolerance classroom policies September 3, 2010
    Salon's got a blood-boiling interview with Aaron Kupchik, author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear, a close look at four very different US schools. Each school has a different demographic and different location, but the thing they all share is a set of zero-tolerance policies that turn them into Kafka-esque nightmares: They start […]
    Cory Doctorow
  • Move iTunes' Close/Minimize/Zoom Buttons Back on Top [ITunes Tip] September 3, 2010
    Mac only: Unhappy with the way iTunes 10 moved your window controls around? Make iTunes look like your other windows again with a one-shot Terminal command. More » […]
    Kevin Purdy
  • A minimalist keychain. (via this) September 3, 2010
    A minimalist keychain. (via this) […]
    (author unknown)
  • Of Toshiba's Two Lumileo Pico Projectors, One Chains You Up, the Other Makes You Free [Pico Projectors] September 3, 2010
    Pico projectors: remember them? They were all the rage before everyone moved on to tablets and 3DTVs. A little late to the game, but Toshiba's two pico projectors are svelte models with a only storage and connection keeping them apart. More » […]
    Kat Hannaford
  • Morse code key made from a coin September 3, 2010
    Spotted on the MAKE Flickr pool, this funky-fine Morse code straight key made with a Two Pence piece. 2p Straight Key More: Sew a cute Morse code key leg strap Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Science | Digg this! […]
    Gareth Branwyn
  • Rotten Eggs September 3, 2010
    You all know I have a remarkable tolerance for libertarians, but here is where I really break from their “fire all the regulators” schema. Jack DeCoster, owner of Wright County Egg, which recalled millions of eggs poisoned with Salmonella in the last few weeks is a serial violator of even the egg Councils own rules. As the Wall Street Journal reports when th […]
    Jon Taplin
  • O_O September 3, 2010
    Video Link (via reddit) […]
    Dean Putney
  • The Best Sci-Fi Cartoons Ever Made? September 2, 2010
    Love geeky toons? Then check out this list of 16 of the best sci-fi cartoons ever made over at our pal Geeks Are Sexy. 16. Exosquad Exosquad was an absolutely amazing cartoon, if you could look past the really, really dodgy moral basis for the series. In its favor, the characters were multidimensional, there were long term plots and continuity, everyone had […]
    Alex