Strangely Perfect

Introduction to the Problem and .htaccess Usage I’ve had a few weird hits over time from “normal” websites containing “abnormal” content.  Take today, for instance…. According to my Wassup log and the stats that appear on the main screen widget, I got reffered by: http://www.space.com/common/community/profile.php?u=1078916 Click this if you will.  It’s an ad for male [...]

a.k.a.   How Internet Sites strip out Content for Their Own Purposes These are called feed harvesters or content scrapers amongst other terms and exist solely to copy other people’s content for the purpose of serving adverts, charging folks for getting good hit rates, hosting malware… etc I came across one while checking a Google [...]

40th Anniversary of the Earthrise Picture This is the original colour photo taken by Anders (Borman’s b&w was the first).  This is how Anders framed it in the zero gravity environment – north is at the top and the craft is whizzing towards the Earth at this point in it’s lunar orbit. I think NOW [...]

Many moons ago, before Crawling Chaos, I had an interest in astronomy.  In those days, only professionals took photos of stars and it was hard, as you needed plates and plate holders stuck on the back of your telescope, and a dark room to develop pictures.  Telescope needed to be motor driven to track the [...]

Hanny’s Voorwerp is a new type of astronomical object that’s been found by a Dutch woman as part of the Galaxy Zoo project.  The BBC were the first English speaking news outlet to pick up on this, here: Teacher finds new cosmic object Hanny Van Arkel,started this caper after she read a book by Queen [...]

Peru isn’t having a lot of luck at the minute. Now they’ve had a fair-sized chunk of doo land on them – well the crater it left is supposed to be emitting foul smelling gases, which is doo in my polite book. BBC report is here Here’s a video