Peculiar emissions

In a conversation with Chris Locke, the subject of Google Sky came up. And so off I went. [Strange, the things one does when waiting for backups to complete].

When I got to Google Sky, the first thing I looked for was Arcturus. [Why? Because the story implied in its etymological origins intrigued me as a boy].

And what I saw was this:

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I’ve played with Google Sky, but not very much. I can’t work out why this is happening. Does anyone out there know?

Incidentally, I owe a vote of thanks to Chris. He was the one who stepped in and bailed me out when this blog became mysteriously style-free and spam-magnetic.

Street cred

I was doing some work on the Mac, with a lazy eye on the tweetstream, when I saw a reference to this:

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It looks real. It feels real. Weird, unexpected, but real nevertheless.
I wonder how they figure out whom to “follow”. Shades of Big Brother is Following You.

We live in interesting times.

Incidentally, my thanks to Gaspar Torriero for tweeting about it.