Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFknwz09ijiySoSTLso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5266151/first-tv-image-of-mars-ever-was-made-with-crayons">Gizmodo - First TV Image of Mars Ever Was Made With Crayons</a></p> <p>No, really.</p> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">The people at the JPL were so excited to receive the images that they couldn’t wait for them to be processed by the lab’s imager. As the first picture was beamed down as a stream of 8-bit numbers—each point indicating a brightness point—they thought of a quick way to get an image straight away: Print the numbers indicating brightness in paper strips, put them together, and color them with pastel crayons.<br/></blockquote> <p><img height="280" width="500" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/05/data_firstmars_01.jpg.jpg"/></p> <p>(<a href="http://delicious.com/kevan">via</a>)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/112824164http://notes.husk.org/post/112824164Mon, 25 May 2009 18:01:00 +0100crayongizmodoimagemarspaint by numbers