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Stellar explosion is most distant object visible to the naked eye

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:19:22 GMT

It’s located in Boötes, and is about 7.5 billion light years away.

Link: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080321-distant-explosion.html

Tempo Time Tags

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:06:46 GMT

When you just can’t be bothered to wear a watch.

Link: http://www.vessel.com/prod_cur_tempo.html

Too Much Information? Ignore It

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:40:10 GMT

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/fashion/11guru.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Amateur Time Hackers Play With Atomic Clocks at Home

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:40:01 GMT

Link: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/time_hackers

Polar clock

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:26:31 GMT

Tell time in circles.

Link: http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/upload/polarclock/polarclock.html

Time Sensitive CSS Switcher

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:54:14 GMT

A front-page Digg story about swapping out CSS files depending on the time of day. It’s nice to see so many people interested in the technique, I guess I’m just a little surprised people are finding the idea so groundbreaking. This guy does it with Javascript, and while that’s not a bad idea, I still think a server-side solution is best.

Link: http://www.digg.com/design/Time_Sensitive_CSS_Switcher

Energy Policy Act of 2005

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:16:48 GMT

I had no idea they were changing Daylight Saving Time. I’m of the opinion it’s time to drop the whole thing, and certainly not time to lengthen it.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005#Change_to_daylight_saving_time

Time Sensitive

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:54:29 GMT

I spent some time this afternoon building in time and weather sensitivity to my blog’s design. I spent absolutely zero time trying to phrase that last sentence so that I didn’t sound like a complete dork.

This redesign was partly driven by Smashing Magazine’s ‘30 dark designs’ article, partly driven by Amy spending all weekend blogging, and partly driven by the fact that ever since Dunstan Orchard took down his blog I’ve wanted to do something like this.

It’s a first step, there are only basic designs in place for sunny day, cloudy day and night. I think I’d definitely like to get a “twilight” one in there, maybe a rain or a snow, and then maybe a few easter eggs as I come up with them.

Comments and suggestions are, as always, welcome.

Saving time with your microwave

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:12 GMT

Can all those shaved seconds really add up?

Link: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/07/saving-time-with-your-microwave/