4-Billion-Pixel Panorama From Curiosity Rover Brings Mars to Your Computer Screen | Wired Science | Wired.com
I think I see a martian.
Martian Landscape with Rover Deck - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell in Out of this World
I think I see a martian.
Martian Landscape with Rover Deck - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell in Out of this World
Meograph looks like a cool tool to tell stories using multimedia content.
I want to create a simple set of macros that I can pass around as an AddIn. When I run it as a Macro in my workbook it’s fine. It doesn’t work as an AddIn.
The AddIn creates a menu item under the AddIns worksheet menu. When I try to call the function from the menu item, I see this error.
“Cannot run the macro FOO. The macro may not be available in this workbook or all macros may be disabled.”
All macros are enabled but I can’t figure out how to make the functions from the AddIn show up in either the Macros list or in the AddIn menu I created.
More to come…
Update March 26, 2013, 1:17 PM
I’m making progress. It looks like there might be a name space collision between the AddIns default workbook “ThisWorkbook” and the active documents workbook name “ThisWorkbook.”
I renamed the AddIn Workbook and references that when I called the AddIn function from the AddIn menu and I was able to call the method (AddInName.FOO).
Fun with homemade playdough.
Paul Graham has a simple definition of a startup: an organization designed to grow fast. Steve Blank adheres to a different one: an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
They’re both right, in a way. And that has important implications for entrepreneurs
Google has a huge update coming to Analytics. This article describes some of the biggest changes and what they mean.
Universal Analytics - Google Analytics Game Changing Analytics Engine.
When introducing agile methodologies into an organization with legacy products, consider building the “Perfect Slice” a “a fully formed feature where all the ‘layers’ - from the database to the user interface – are properly executed, but where the scope is intentionally and sometimes drastically limited. It’s my belief that it’s often better to do a great job on a fraction of the functionality and completely leave the rest out, than it is to do an okay job on a longer feature list.”
By analysing the movements of human shadows in aerial and satellite footage, JPL engineer Adrian Stoica says it should be possible to identify people from the way they walk – a technique called gait analysis, whose power lies in the fact that a persons walking style is very hard to disguise.
Cool article / infographic on content marketing.
“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
-Edwin Louis Cole
I love discovering really cool websites. I’m not sure how I missed this one before.
Here is an index of websites that you should visit if you don’t want to waste time.
WiseGeek has a really cool post today that shows you what 200 calories looks like across a variety of different foods.
As someone who’s trying to shave a few pounds this was a great post.
In a nutshell - you can eat a lot of veggies and not so many M&Ms :)
What Does 200 Calories Look Like?.
Great article in Time about (more) problems with the health care system in the US.
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
via Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com.
Some thoughts on the role of Product Management by Sachin Rekhi, a former product manager at LinkedIn and Microsoft.
Interview with @hunterwalk, Former Director of Product at Google about product management.
Persistence is self-discipline in action.
Three reasons not to build a Minimum Viable Product.
Slide deck from Reed Hastings describing the company culture at Netflix. It’s some really good advice on how to scale creative driven companies while maintaining agility.
Sometimes I actually cook. I’m also pretty decent at it.
Broccoli with fresh garlic, olive oil, Parmesan cheese and red pepper over pasta.
This is a great video on a simple thing you can do to improve your health.
via 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? - YouTube.
You can follow this Dr on Twitter @DocMikeEvans
Why isn’t the U.S. leading on this?
"If the Chinese can crack thorium," notes the Telegraph, "the world will need less oil, coal, and gas than feared. Wind turbines will vanish from our landscape. There will less risk of a global energy crunch, less risk of resource wars, and less risk of a climate tipping point."via Will Thorium Nuclear Energy Save Us All? | Mother Jones.
About three years ago, Randy Moore, a struggling screenwriter living in Burbank, had an out-there idea: What if he took a tiny camera and, without asking permission, began shooting a narrative movie at Disney theme parks?via Sundance 2013: How did a newbie make an unapproved film in Disney parks? - latimes.com.Moore had been visiting Disney World in Orlando, Fla., with his now-estranged father since he was a child, and he’d also begun taking his two children, then 1 and 3, to Disneyland. He thought that juxtaposing the all-American iconography of Mickey Mouse with a dark scripted tale would be cinematic gold, or at least deeply weird.
So with the help of an extremely small Canon camera and some very game actors and crew, the director began shooting a movie guerrilla-style.
I think I’ve found my next car. The Accord Plug-In Hybrid looks great and reportedly gets 100+ MPG.
So, I’ve been thinking about the NRAs proposal about posting armed guards in every school and also the other proposal floating around about arming teachers. I feel that if someone is putting forth a suggestion debate it rather than dismiss it outright.
That said, the one thing that keeps coming back to me is. What happens if the armed guards or the teachers are the ones that lose their shit?
Kind of reminds of the old kids story.
NRA: White House Meeting Had Nothing To Do With Keeping Our Children Safe.
