September 8, 2009 @ 7:40 pm
PDN Pulse did a bit of research and found out that photographer Tim Davis is responsible for the snow leopard photo used on Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard packaging. As it turns out, it was very hard to track down this information and in the end, it was an archaic email system from OrphanSearch that proved to be the best place to find answers. Cool!
May 25, 2009 @ 1:20 pm
Norman has always told me that when I delete stuff on Facebook that it actually never gets deleted. Well, it turns out that he is right. According to research done at Cambridge University, a number of websites that allow users to upload photos also has the habit of keeping them around when a user decides to remove them.
They kept a track of the permalinks that went to individual photos and then deleted them and checked back after 30 days. To their surprise, 7 out of 16 sites still had the photos available for viewing. One of those sites is the major social networking site, Facebook. I guess it’s pretty naive of me to think that anything posted on the internet can be private or removed. Once it’s there, it’s there forever…
March 20, 2009 @ 8:56 pm
Bat in wind tunnel from Carl Zimmer on Vimeo.
Bats are mysterious creatures to me mainly because I hardly ever see them and when I do, it’s nighttime so it’s literally hard to make out physical features. So when I read over at Discover Magazine about the new discoveries being made in bat research I was thankful that they also included wonderful slow-motion videos to compliment the article.
The article talks briefly about the differences between bats and birds and the evolutionary track of different species of bat which is directly related to their geographic location and/or living circumstances.
The article really is an enlightening read and the videos do great justice in case you aren’t quite getting what’s being written. I’ve included the videos inside, but really, you should just head on over to Discover Magazine to read the full article.
PS: I love how the videos are unusually formatted. Makes it interesting to watch (but also a bit annoying if you’re using a low screen resolution).
