This Is Why I Want Photoshop 1.0 on My iPhone Right Now [Photoshop]

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Photoshop 1.0 is old—20 years old to be exact—but it looks brand-spanking-new and fan-freakin'-tastic on an iPhone. Forget the newest version of the image editing software, because after seeing this teasing demo, you'd be happy with 1.0.

This demo is all we're getting for now as the app was only made available to about 50 people who attended the Adobe Photoshop anniversary event, but that won't keep us from feeling nostalgic and desperately wanting to edit images with it.

Adobe Photoshop 20th anniversary iPhone app created with Ansca Mobile's Corona SDK

San Francisco, CA | February 18, 2010 | A limited-edition Adobe Photoshop 20th anniversary commemorative iPhone app was released to select attendees today at the Photoshop 20th Anniversary Event organized by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP).

The Photoshop 20th Anniversary app was spearheaded by Russell Brown, Adobe's Senior Creative Director and one of the original Photoshop team members. The app itself is a replica of Photoshop 1.0, which Adobe debuted in 1990 exclusively on the Macintosh.

"I really wanted to do something special to commemorate 20 years of Photoshop, and the best thing I thought of was a nostalgic iPhone app," said Brown. "Since I had less than two weeks to make it happen, I came to the best iPhone team I knew, who were able to use their Corona SDK to pull it off with utmost speed and faithfulness to the original product."

To build the app, Brown enlisted the help of Ansca Mobile, creators of the Corona SDK. The Ansca team utilized Corona to bring the essence of the original Photoshop to the iPhone.

"With Photoshop 20th, we were able to bring a legendary product to the fastest growing platform today," said Ansca Mobile co-founder Walter Luh. "Given the extremely short timeframe, we knew the only way to offer the image manipulation features from the original Photoshop was to use Corona."

The Photoshop 20th Anniversary app incorporates the definitive feature of the program's first release. Users can fully adjust the white/black levels and gamma of their photos, including separate red/green/blue channels, while working in a faithfully reproduced 1990-style Photoshop 1.0 interface – all from their iPhone.

Video of the Photoshop 20th Anniversary app being demoed by Brown himself can be seen at tinyurl.com/ps20app. The Corona SDK can be purchased for an introductory price of $99 directly from Ansca Mobile.

About Ansca Mobile

Ansca, Inc. (http://www.anscamobile.com) empowers anyone to create mobile applications. Led by an award-winning team of former Adobe mobile software engineers, Ansca Mobile creates innovative products which allow developers of all backgrounds to unlock their imagination. Ansca Mobile's Corona platform enables designers, engineers, and non-traditional developers to quickly create and share applications designed for the Apple iPhone.


How To Make Your Twitter Followers Uneasy: Use ShadyURLs | Discoblog

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computer-virusAnyone who uses Facebook or Twitter is probably familiar with Bit.ly or TinyURL.com–Web services that shortens lengthy Web addresses to fit within limited character counts. These truncated URLs don’t make it clear what page the link redirects to, but most people have gotten used to that fact; users happily click a shortened URL without worrying that it might actually send you to a site that starts a computer virus download.

Now, a new website called ShadyURL.com is generating a few laughs for its service that claims to “make your Twitter followers a little more uneasy.” The web service shortens web addresses into “suspicious and frightening” links that would anyone think hard before clicking on.

For example:
Facebook.com became http://5z8.info/56-DEPLOY-TROJAN-287.mw9—-_i6f3e__init_download
Twitter.com turned into http://5z8.info/trojan_j7r7z_inject_worm

When we typed in DiscoverMagazine.com, here’s what we got:
http://5z8.info/friendster-of-sex_m8×9r_-OPEN-WEBCAM—START-RECORD–

Rest assured, these URLs don’t actually send you to sites where trojan horses will be deployed, worms will be injected, and webcams will start recording. Then again, we wonder how long it will be before someone puts an actual virus in a ShadyURL that looks obviously shady but that people will assume is a safe URL cloaked in false shadiness.

Damn your logical puzzles, Internet.

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Is Apple Taking Sexy Back? Raunchy Apps Vanish From the App Store | Discoblog

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organize-apps-20090909Is Apple trying to sweep sex under the rug? Online reports suggest that the tech giant is looking to purge the App Store’s shelves of sex-themed apps. Some tech sites have noticed that sexy apps like “Sexy Women” and “Exotic Positions” that were previously available are now missing from the App Store.

The case of the missing sex-apps surfaced when the developer behind adult-themed app “Wobble iBoobs,” Jon Atherton, received a notification from Apple saying his app was being removed from the App Store for being too graphic.

TechCrunch reports on the email Atherton received from Apple:

Your application, Wobble iBoobs (Premium Uncensored), contains content that we had originally believed to be suitable for distribution. However, we have recently received numerous complaints from our customers about this type of content, and have changed our guidelines appropriately.

We have decided to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store, which includes your application.

However, TechCrunch points out that other racy apps like “Beautiful Boobs” and “Sex Strip” are still around, suggesting that the apps that have been pulled from the store may be those that Apple judged too graphic, or apps that have been the subject of consumer complaints. On the other hand, maybe Apple just hasn’t gotten around to removing apps like “Epic boobs” yet.

Apple has had a murky relationship vis-a-vis sexy apps. When the App Store was launched in 2008, the company took a hard line on risque apps, but later decided to allow some adult-themed apps so long as they weren’t explicitly pornographic. Apple has yet to comment on whether its latest move constitutes a major shift in its policy, but it seems likely that the company is swinging back in the direction of modesty and discretion.

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Base Apparent Power in a Per-Unit System (Sbase)

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I'm studying for the electrical PE exam in Power. In my study book, one of the example problems is looking for the short circuit current and states (and I quote) "Using an arbitrary base of 100MVA for Sbase..."

When studying sample questions from the NCEES, the same type problem came up, an

Researchers Find the Genetic Fingerprint of Cancer, 1 Patient at a Time | 80beats

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blood test sampleDoctors who are torn over how aggressively to treat a cancer patient, not knowing whether a tumor has fully regressed or is coming back, might someday be able to find out just by testing the patient’s blood. In a study forthcoming his week in Science Translational Medicine, John Hopkins researchers say they have tested a way to spot the “fingerprint” of cancer–the changes to the DNA inside cells that make up cancerous tumors.

Jeffery Schloss of the National Human Genome Research Institute, who wasn’t involved in the study, likened the approach to drawing a map. Sequencing the letters of the genetic code would be akin to plotting every house in a large neighborhood. The Hopkins team was looking only for neighborhoods—in particular, neighborhoods out of place compared with where they would be in normal tissue [Wall Street Journal]. The researchers in the study looked at tissue from people with breast or bowel cancer, and found multiple DNA rearrangements in each of the samples of cancerous tissue.

In each patient, the genetic changes in the cancerous cells amount to a unique marker of the patient’s tumor, the researchers say. Using blood samples from two of the colorectal cancer patients, they found the test was sensitive enough to detect this marker or “fingerprint” DNA that had been shed by tumours into the bloodstream [BBC News].

The study’s approach could be invaluable for tracking the progress of a tumor. When a cancer is operated on or treated with radio- or chemotherapy, the levels of the fingerprint should fall, and vanish altogether if the tumour has been eradicated [The Guardian]. Indeed, in one of their patients, the study authors saw the cancer biomarker drop after surgery but then rise again, suggesting to them that the cancer wasn’t fully eradicated.

Because the technique requires sequencing a person’s whole genome, it’s not coming to a hospital near you in the immediate future, says study author Bert Vogelstein: “This is really personalized medicine. This is not something off the shelf…. This is something that has to be designed for each individual patient” [Reuters]. But with the cost of genome sequencing rapidly coming down in price, this kind of approach might not be too far away, and doctors could use it to catch a recurring cancer before it’s large enough to be visible to other methods, like CT scans.

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Hydraulic Testing for Piping System

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Hi All,

I am planning to carry out hydraulic test (Water) for piping system. Hydraulic testing pressure is 280 bar. Could anyone help me on following issue.

1. I know, we have to avoid the entrapped air in the pipe system, How can I minimise air in the system, Do I need to carry out nitrog

Crestron Home Automation Systems Are Now iPad Compatible [Crestron]

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Crestron is one of the biggest names behind home automation. They've already released an iPhone app, allowing you to control your "AV systems, lighting, shades, room temperatures and more" from your phone. Now that app is coming to the iPad.

Just like with the iPhone version, iPad users will be able to interact with their Crestron systems over Wi-Fi, 3G and Edge. Here's what the interface loos like on the iPhone (the iPad version should be identical).

Is Crestron's latest support for the iPad a surprise? Not at all. But tablets have the potential to bring down the price of these fancy home automation systems by a significant margin, all while offering the convenience of controlling the operation with AAA, vetted gear that can serve a purpose beyond closing your blinds.

We're assuming the pricing ranges from free to $100 (on the basic and "Pro" versions, respectively), just as it is on the iPhone now. No word release date, but obviously you can't use it until the iPad is actually out. (Apologies if that's a crushing surprise.)

CRESTRON ENABLES SYSTEMs AND DEVICE CONTROL

FROM THE APPLE® iPAD

Crestron Mobile Apps Turn the Apple® iPad into a Crestron Touchpanel

ROCKLEIGH, NJ, February 19, 2010 – Crestron today announced that a simple download from the iTunes® App Store transforms the Apple® iPad into a full Crestron touchpanel. A tap on the Apple tablet screen provides real-time control of Crestron AV systems, lighting, shades, room temperatures and more, from any location. Just like the iPhone® and iPod touch®, the iPad seamlessly communicates with a Crestron control system via the 3G, 3GS or EDGE cellular networks or Wi-Fi.

"Crestron is committed to offering great solutions for integrating Apple products into the home, school and office," said Vincent Bruno, Crestron Director of Marketing. "Our Mobile apps are fully compatible with the iPad, and we're delighted to add the iPad to our selection of Apple-based solutions."

Other Apple-based Crestron solutions include the iServer, which is the only audio server on the market that uses an iPod as its internal hard drive, and has won multiple awards for its innovative design and ease of use. Crestron XPanel for Mac® delivers remote access and control of Crestron systems from any connected iMac® or MacBook®, and Crestron iPod docks provide all the connectivity needed to share audio and video throughout an entire home or office AV system.

For more information about the complete Crestron line for Integration with Apple Products visit http://www.crestron.com/apple.


The Navy’s Fleet of Uber Classified Super Ultra High Tech Ship Cleaning Robots [Military]

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The robots that scrub the decks on the USS Freedom? They're just simple Roombas.

The three bots go by the names Scooba Stevens, Chief Miles O'Brien, and ITSN Unger, referencing Big Daddy, Star Trek and The Odd Couple, respectively.

Very cute, but little do we know, DARPA charges us like $250,000 after slapping on a US flag sticker. [MilitaryTimes via BotJunkie]


The 12 Best New Phones You Can’t Buy [Mobile World Congress]

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Barcelona's Mobile World Congress came and went, and didn't amount to much in the way of US cellphones. The rest of the world got some seriously nice gear, though. Here's the best of the best of the out of reach.

HTC Legend

Why You Want It: It's like an HTC Hero, except with Android 2.1, an OLED screen, and a brushed-to-perfection aluminum body, which may be the most stylistically interesting design choice HTC has ever made.
Why You Can't Have It: European availability starts in April, and this phone could see a later US release date like the Hero did, though HTC hasn't given any indication that this is true. Here's the thing: Remember how Sprint uglified the original Hero? I wouldn't put it past them, and more generally HTC, to tone this thing down (read: ruin it) in the unlikely event of a US release.

Alcatel OT980

Why You Want It: It'll be a cheap Android handset in a totally under-recognized form factor. Some may see it as a knockoff of the Pre, but I just see it as a nice little messaging phone, without the restrictions of a dumbphone OS.
Why You Can't Have It: Have you ever seen an Alcatel handset in real life? Didn't think so. This one's coming in May. To Yur-ope.

Motorola XT800

Why You Want It: It's got the brains of a Droid, without the keyboard. Plus, it's got support for dual SIM cards—a rarity in Android phones—and HDMI output.
Why You Can't Have It: It was introduced alongside an explicitly Chinese-only phone, and Motorola has made no indications that a North American release is coming. And even if it did, a dual-SIM international phone without a keyboard might be a tough sell to carriers, which usually market travel phones to businesspeople.

General Mobile Touch Stone

Why You Want It: Remember the HTC Touch HD2? The one with the orgasmically beautiful hardware, and categorically disappointing software? This is pretty much that, with Android.
Why You Can't Have It: General Mobile made their name selling knockoff phones. While the Touch Stone isn't a knockoff phone at all, it comes from a company that doesn't—and will probably never—have a foothold in the US.

Acer beTouch E110

Why You Want It: When Android phones are available for free on contract, this is what they're going to look like. The specs on this thing are underwhelming, so it might not be accurate to say that you'd want it for you, but you might want it for your tweenage kid.
Why You Can't Have It: Acer currently has no plans to bring the beTouch stateside, and Acer's other phones don't exactly have a history of showing up in the US unannounced.

The Puma Phone

Why You Want It: The first phone designed entirely around a sporting lifestyle. Oh, and it's got a solar panel!
Why You Can't Have It: Initial launch plans have it released in Europe in about two months, with further availability TBD. US prospects aren't great though, since Puma doesn't have nearly the brand power here it does in the UK and elsewhere. (Fun fact: British people pronounce Puma like "Pyoo-mah.")

LG GW990

Why You Want It: It's the first phone with Intel's Moorestown chip, and the first with the hybrid Maemo/Moblin OS, called Meego. And seriously, come on with these specs: A 4.8-inch screen at 480 x 1024 pixels? A 1850mAh battery? Intel's Atom-based system-on-a-chip? This phone is pornographic.
Why You Can't Have It: Let's face it: It's a tech demo. The Korean market tends to be more receptive to over-the-top phone like this, which is why they're the only ones getting it for now, and even there, not for another half a year. Can you imagine a Verizon or an AT&T picking up something this absurd? And can you imagine how much it would cost unsubsidized?

Samsung Wave

Why You Want It: Its Bada OS may be underwhelming, but it's a nicely spec'd phone with a couple game-changing features: the first "Super OLED" screen, which doesn't look like ass in direct sunlight. It's also the first handset with USB 3.0, which is, you know, fast.
Why You Can't Have It: UK availability starts in April, and Samsung hasn't even bothered to include a "further markets will be announced by x" blanket statement. It could happen, but don't bet on it.

Toshiba K01

Why You Want It: It's essentially the TG01 with a slide-out keyboard, which makes it the thinnest slide-out-QWERTY smartphone of its kind. (Its kind being massive, massive phones.) It's a proud, final signoff for the entire category of ultraspec'd Windows Mobile 6.x phones.
Why You Can't Have It: The TG01 never made it stateside, and there's no reason to believe that its keyboarded followup will either. And besides, this phone is a lustable piece of hardware, but with WinPho 7 on the horizon, it's hard to recommend buying a 6.5.3-based phone.

Sony X10 Mini

Why You Want It: The Xperia X10 done had itself a baby! An adorable little baby! You get the full Sony Ericsson Timeline interface overlaid atop Android, in a much more compact package. And it'll probably be cheap.
Why You Can't Have It: The X10 is taking forever to make it to market here, and other miniaturized phones, like the N97 Mini, don't seem to fly with American carriers. Accordingly, Sony Ericsson hasn't said a thing about a US release.

Samsung i8520

Why You Want It: Ignore everything else: This phone has a built-in projector. Ha!
Why You Can't Have It: Samsung's science fair project is going to be very, very expensive, and besides, it won't even be available in Asia and parts of Europe until Q3 of this year, with a wider release possibly in the cards. Possibly.

Texas Instruments Blaze

Why You Want It: Look! Look at this thing! Two 3.7-inch screens, the OMAP 4 chipset based on the ARM Cortex A9, three cameras, a keyboard—this thing is outright insane.
Why You Can't Have It: It's developer hardware, so it's not even meant for wide sale. I suppose you could buy one if you wanted, but unless you engineer cellphones or write mobile OSes for a living, you really shouldn't.


Win a Gnu Danny Kass Snowboard With Power Banana Technology [Contests]

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After testing a banana tech snowboard last year, Lib/Gnu sent me this Danny Kass banana board. With C2BTX technology, the tips are turned down a bit to help with pop. I love it. You should take it off my hands.

We can't keep gear we test and they don't want it back. But also, I look a little bit too much like the guy on the board to keep riding it. It's the mustache and round head. The board is a 155, I think, has magnetraction (the edges are serrated for better grip on hard or icy surfaces) and its not too stiff, not too soft. The NYTimes(?) and some snowboarding magazines gave it some awards.

The prize is pretty easy to claim. All you have to do is find me riding in Tahoe sometime over the next few weeks, and yell "Banana!Banana!Banana!Banana!Banana!" (Banana 5 times) at me with your fingers in your ears. Hey, what's a little humiliation in the face of really good free snowboard?

To make it easier to find me, I'll be tweeting when I ride once in awhile at my twitter account. Follow @blam, @Gizmodo, @libtechnologies and @Gnu_Snowboards, and look for updates from me starting this weekend.

Oh and I look like this.


Buried Tank Design

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Hello,
please show me a way of research, my problem is as follows:
I have to size a tank buried double Jacket Horizontal, I want to Inquiries on the external pressure exerted by the soil on the tank and all loads.

Tanks you

Futurist Afternoon in Parma (Feb 20)

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Ancora una volta…Futurismo

February 20, 2010, 4pm
Biblioteca Palatina di Parma

Il 20 febbraio 1909 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti annunciava al mondo dalla prima pagina del parigino Le Figaro il “Manifesto del Futurismo”, già preannunciato con minori echi in Italia nei giorni precedenti. Iniziava così l’avventura della più importante avanguardia italiana, di cui sta per concludersi il primo centenario. E proprio il 20 febbraio l’Associazione Linguaggi Teatro Arte (ALTA) chiuderà questo anniversario con un pomeriggio futurista alla Biblioteca Palatina, organizzato con il patrocinio e il contributo del “Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni del centenario del Manifesto Futurista” insieme alla stessa Biblioteca e con la collaborazione della Galleria d’Arte Niccoli. Si inizierà alle ore 16.00 con la presentazione del libro Al Cavallino. Fonofotointervista in un atto di Gabriello Anselmi, figlio del futurista veronese Piero Anselmi (al quale l’opera è ispirata), proseguendo con uno spettacolo di letture a cura di Enzo Vanarelli, Simonetta Checchia, Federico Dilirio e Toni Buccarello.

20 Febbraio 2010 ore 16,00 – Salone Maria Luigia, Biblioteca Palatina, piazza della Pilotta, 3 – Parma

L’iniziativa è ad ingresso libero;

Per ulteriori informazioni: tel. 333.6305824 – http://www.associazionealta.it

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The Planet Storage Cloud: FYI

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Rob WaltersIf you follow the techies on Twitter or read IT publications online, you’ve probably seen more than a few mentions of cloud computing. Even tech behemoth IBM runs TV ads on cloud computing, underscoring the confusion around what this new technology really is.

With the wealth of cloud products on the market, The Planet’s philosophy is that all of our products — cloud and otherwise — have to serve you, our customer. Our products have to be beneficial to your business. They should lower costs, make technology easier, speed up your environment or protect your data.

We introduced Storage Cloud last year as a way for customers to store data outside of their hosted server. You might be wondering, “How is Storage Cloud any more practical or beneficial than hosted storage in the server? Both are served over the Internet, aren’t they?”

There are three main differences between Storage Cloud and hosted storage:

  1. Storage Cloud is metered, similar to your electricity bill. You pay only for what you use when you need to use it. If your storage needs vary considerably from month to month, it may be a good idea to store your files in the cloud rather than invest in an additional disk that may or may not be used — but will be paid for — in the next month.
  2. Storage Cloud is scalable. Your storage needs aren’t limited by the capacity of any single disk, and your cost remains constant. Costs can even decrease as you consistently use higher volumes.
  3. Storage Cloud is redundant and available as a service. Redundancy is available in hosted solutions with multiple disks and RAID, but in many cases, it’s not included by default.
  4. Hosted storage mediums — internal disks, direct attached storage (DAS) or storage area networks (SAN) — are dedicated only to your hosted servers. Storage Cloud is more flexible. If you have a mix of on-premise servers and off-site clients (your laptop, for example), you could back up everything in one place.

When it comes to whether or not Storage Cloud is a more economical option, the answer isn’t cut and dry. Here’s an example of when it would make sense (from solely a cost perspective) to go with Storage Cloud over an additional disk for backups:

You purchase a new server from The Planet and run regular backups. You want to keep the most recent 20GB of backups, and you’re evaluating Storage Cloud against an additional disk in your machine. You’ve got 10GB of free cloud storage (included with all new server orders), bandwidth is free between your server and the cloud, and the second 10GB is 25 cents per GB (or $2.50) per month.

Those backups are being stored at less than the cost of adding any hard drives to your server, and you get the other inherent benefits of the cloud platform. As your volume of data increases, dedicated storage might become a cheaper alternative, so your decision to use Storage Cloud should be made based on the other benefits in the list above.

Storage Cloud isn’t going to be all things for all people. It’s a specific subset of our larger storage portfolio with its own benefits and use cases. For instance, if you’re storing a multi-gigabyte database, you should still consider internal storage or DAS first … Storage Cloud is an option, but it’s not always the best option for your needs. If you’ve got questions about the best storage vehicle for a given application, let us know and we’ll do our best to help!

If you’d like to learn more about The Planet Storage Cloud, visit http://www.theplanet.com/cloud-storage.

-Rob

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Futurist Horoscopes for the week of Feb 20, 2010

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Why not?

Link

Here’s mine:

VERGINE (23 agosto -22 settembre)
Vergini sorpassano a galoppo giornate dai freschi mantelli, notturni respiranti chiardiluna, tenebrose pianure del non so. In sé confidenza! Su questo mio AMORE mostro impazzito, a galoppo! AMICI di passo: passi precipitano pesanti passaggi; tutto scorre e voi, voi restate. FEROCIA regolarità LAVORO: basso grave a scandere strani folli agitatissimi acuti. Vergini di Norimberga, s’offrono.

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Volcano on volcano action | Bad Astronomy

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I know I just posted a volcano image from the Terra Earth-observing satellite, but another just came in and it’s so beautiful I can’t help myself. So here’s a little bit of awesome for your Friday afternoon. Behold!

See? Told you.

What we have here are two volcanoes on February 13 erupting simultaneously in Kamchatka. The northern one, Klyuchevskaya, is the tallest and most active in the region. The other one, Bezymianny, is 10 km (6 miles) to the south, and is much smaller (2900 meters/9500 feet vs. 4800 m/15,900 feet) for Klyuchevskaya). Both are spewing a plume high into the air; from the whitish color it appears to be more steam than ash, though the northern, larger volcano is reported to be sending out lava and rock fountains as well. Between the two you can see some clouds, too.

I don’t suppose too many folks live near these two monsters, which is a good thing. I can’t imagine what it must look like to be, say, 10 kilometers east of the two and see them both blasting out plumes reaching up 6 kilometers (3.5 miles) high. But one day I’d love to witness something like that! Maybe from farther away, though. Wow.

Image credit: by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team


Ikea Lamp Used To Make Slide Projector To Bore Friends With [Inventions]

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Don't try and hide that Leksvik table from me, I can recognize Swedish wood from a hundred miles away. We all own Ikea furniture, it's as certain as death and taxes. But not everyone makes a projector from a lamp.

Instructables member Derte84 cobbled together his projector using just the Isbrytare lamp from Ikea, tape and a couple of photo slides. Very simple, as you can tell. This particular model of lamp has a lens, which is necessary to make the image beam onto a wall, and is what Derte84 attached the photo slide to—though not too close to the light, as otherwise it'd burn.

Then, you can bore friends and family to death with holiday photos the old fashioned way—in Sweden, at least. [Instructables]