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Download Festival 2008 Category: General Me Music Photos Random StuffI know it was almost two weeks ago now but I've finally gotten around to having some time to write up on here what I thought of the [Download festival]. It was indeed my first time at this festival and I have to say I was very impressed. It was also the first festival that I have been to that we dro...
A trip to Jodrell Bank... Category: Astronomy Photos
Last week Astrosoc finally went on a trip to Jodrell bank... we have only been talking about doing this for 7 years! Well I personally can say I had a great time, not that I haven't seen the Lovell telescope many times now... Its a wonderful sight: but I'm sure we didn't show the true respec...
A Fire Rainbow Category: Astronomy Random Stuff
I came across this really lovely image on APOD yesterday of an inverted rainbow! Take a look at [apod] for the picture and nice description of how this is formed....
Interview for AstrotalkUK Category: Astronomy General Me radio
Last week I was interviewed for [AstrotalkUK]. - a UK based podcast for amateur astronomers. I was talking about the Federation of Astronomical Societies and the resources that we have available to the wider amateur community. So if you want to listen to it go to [www.astrotalkuk.org] and look at ep...
Women in Science... Category: Random Stuff
L'Oreal are running a vote to find out who people feel is the most inspiration female scientist. There is some stiff competition and I'm not sure I can decide... take a look at [www.womeninscience.co.uk/] to vote....
Magnetic fields... are all around you. Category: Astronomy cool geeky
I'm not sure who made this movie (according to some forums its "NASA scientistisT) but its quite cool. It does look a bit like too much CGI and some long exposure photos of light sources being moved around but still its quite cool and does show off some physics (which is never a bad thing...) ...
Low mass planet "detected" Category: Astronomy exoplanets
There are suggestions that a 3-Earth-mass planet (given the designation MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb) has been discovered orbiting a brown dwarf "star" (the ultra-cool star has a mass just 6 percent of the Sun). I'm not so convinced.. but if you want to learn more take a read of [www.sciencedaily.co...
The Phoenix landing... Category: Astronomy mars
WOW! This has to make it into my 50 most powerful images in astronomy. Yep that is the Phoenix mars lander on its decent to the red planet... Credit: MRO-HiRISE, NASA, JPL, Univ. Arizona A much more thorough report can be found at [apod]...
Imperialism on Ubuntu Category: Computing Tech games geeky Linux Ubuntu
One of my favourite games ever is Imperialism (you can find a review of this old game, [here], from the title you can guess the idea. Its Civ like in some ways but completely different in many ways, its turn based and you aim to conquer the world - so I guess its similar. The units don't have quite ...
IYA2009 Trailer... Category: Astronomy Film Political Random Stuff
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 has a trailer... so be prepared......
Explosions on the Moon Category: Astronomy
According to NASA over the past two and a half years 100 "explosions" have been detected on the Moon. I think explosion isn't quite the word to use as they are really talking about impacts from meteoroids.. but still its pretty cool and slightly worrying (yes in that order, I am a physicis...
Simple image resizing in Ubuntu Category: Computing geeky Ubuntu
I quite often process my images before I stick them online and so don't often need to bulk resize them, but occasionally it is quite useful. When I had both Ubuntu and windows installed I just revert to using IrfanView, a great little program. I do actually have it install through wine but being me ...
Civilization IV on Ubuntu Category: Computing games geeky Linux Ubuntu
Following on from installing Football Manager 2008 on my ubuntu machine (see: [here], I decided that I would try and install another of my favourite games... Civilization IV. I have to say it was probably slihtly easier than Football Manager (in that it did not need a virtual machine to install it) ...
Football Manager 2008 on Ubuntu Category: Computing Tech Football Linux Ubuntu
I knew the day would come. I love the football manager series and I'm ashamed to say that it was probably the reason I hung on to having Windows installed on my machine for so long. If you have no idea what I'm talking about [the game's site]. Its a pretty addictive game. Anyway, I've been missing i...
Astronomical Chocolate Category: Astronomy Random Stuff
How cool would it be to eat a chocolate planet... and no I'm not talking about your bog-standard Mars bar... They look really cool, shame I doubt we can get them here... but you can in Japan - see [here], ok, it's all in Japanese, but you get the point......