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I'm in no position to dispute the author's technical competency, but on the basis of a series of haranguing messages I received from him after making a small space-related thingy (…

An exception exists for TLEs redistributed by CelesTrak.com. Sources: http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/notice.asp#Update16 and personal correspondence with the operator. (Note a…

I don't know of a paper, but on the Tcl wiki there is some discussion of the "non-recursive evaluation" (NRE) engine that enables these features [1]. More formal descriptions of th…

Jonathan's Space Report ( http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html ) is an exhaustive accounting of human activity in space (manned or unmanned), with a focus on recent launches. Release…

Emily Lakdawalla has posted a good explanatory write-up, with more details on the methodology and background on the research, at the Planetary Society blog: http://www.planetary.or…

I don't deny that cracked screens appear to a problem, but surely you agree that going through 15 iPhones makes your case a bit of an outlier?

I hope you find it useful! Note the interface is just an AppleScript wrapper around some Python code that could be used in other ways.

Nobody's useless. It's easy to get wrapped up in the impression that we are defined by our jobs (especially around this site), but we aren't. I have had some unrewarding jobs mysel…

If you're working with real-world objects, one approach is to place the object of interest on a turntable, allowing you to capture multiple perspectives with a single camera/sensor…

Or what about using built-in motion sensors to record the relative camera location and orientation of a series of frames captured with an e.g. iPhone camera? I don't know exactly h…

Actually, it briefly displays a sequence of four illumination conditions - a white semicircle at the top, right, bottom, and left edges of the screen.

Well, the original still works pretty well. ;-) I just used MacPaint to paint this portrait of MacPaint programmer Bill Atkinson: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anoved/4813947112/

Well, in reality, I would use it to buy food. Money is tight. If we're talking some sort of online-only credit, I'd actually like to donate more to a number of podcasts I enjoy (es…

Courtroom artists serve exactly that function - to sketch the scene in courtrooms where cameras are not allowed, for distribution through the news media. I'm not sure what the tren…

It may not be exactly what you desire, but Project Euler ( http://projecteuler.net/ ) presents a series of mathematical problems of variable difficulty. Working out solutions in co…

I'll let others address your actual question of increasing speed, but I'd just like to make the [perhaps obvious] point that speed isn't everything. I'd argue that comprehension an…

Divvy seems like a neat utility, too, at least for my taste in window management tools. I've been using Cinch (drag windows to top or sides of screen to cinch to full or half scree…

Shopify + Fetch ( http://fetchapp.com/ ) seems like a decent combination for selling digital goods. Fetch provides file hosting and download services and integrates with Shopify as…