Comic Sans MS, maroon on a beige background, this is what Readability was made for.
I read this on my RSS reader and was shaken when opening the original page. Why would anyone do this?
SR-71 Blackbird Communication to Tower
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Blackbird is full of amazing stories. Skunkworks - Ben Rich's memoirs [1] is full of ridiculous stories, both of making the SR-71 as well as stories from pilots (as well as a lot of other projects). Not every thing in there can be taken at face value (his rant against the paint locker on the Sea Shadow for example... it's really the 'toxic solvents and chemicals locker'), but still full of gold. For example, they…
ah the skunkworks
The funny thing is, interesting as some of their projects may be, these days they still have the same mundane shit to complain about as everyone else (IT changed the security policy on my desktop so now I can't run MATLAB, etc).
I do get the impression Skunkworks is not what it once was.
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#63Comic Sans MS, maroon on a beige background, this is what Readability was made for.
I think you need a link there to http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ : thought you just meant it wasn't readable! Readability is great: before that I was just copy & pasting to a text editor...
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#64Comic Sans MS, maroon on a beige background, this is what Readability was made for.
IMHO, I thought this was one of those occasions when the content and its delivery trumped presentation.
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#65Submitted 7 months ago on a more readable, seemingly more original site. http://www.vfp62.com/SR-71.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1247709 (good amount of discussion)
You cite a different story by the same author.
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#66The SR-71 Blackbird went from LA to DC in around an hour. Imagine if (when) a passenger jet could go that fast -- it would transform our country. Pop over to the East Coast for the day, head home in time for dinner.
The Concorde was fast, it just wasn't a commercial success.
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#67Comic Sans MS, maroon on a beige background, this is what Readability was made for.
I honestly don't see what the big fuss about Comic Sans MS is. I read the original page just fine.
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#68Re: SR-71 Blackbird Communication to Tower
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I second the recommendation for Ben Rich's book. It's a great history lesson and explanations behind the thinking of some of the greatest aerospace hackers & out-of-box thinkers. I thought the passage about "600 mph birds" was particularly humorous because that was the first thing my young hacker mind thought of during a training section on the radar cross-section of the aircraft I was working on. It went something l…
>Some years after, an F-117 was shot down during the Kosovo War, reportedly using this method (I had nothing to do with it :). I think this was probably a big learning lesson in regard to stealth technology. It was a bit more complicated than that ;-) The full account how they managed to shot down a "stealth" F-117A with some modifications to cold war era Russian missiles, microwave ovens as radar decoys and in-promp…
From that article:
>The spies and observers enabled Zoltan to keep his radars on for a minimal amount of time.
Reminds me of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
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#70Same pilot, different anecdote, "how slow can it go?" http://tailspinstales.blogspot.com/2010/01/slowest-blackbird...
Well, it can actually stop, right...?