Russian photographer (and Photoshopper) Sergey Larenkov merges WWII-era photos with contemporary shots of identical locations in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Leningrad, and other European cities, to haunting effect.
Who were the building contractors? Do they have any outstanding liens on the property? :-)>
I was digging through some old files and found a wonderful letter to the editor of Datamation from 1983. Fortunately, it has been preserved for posterity on the web:
Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal.
Back then I was starting a phase of my career in which I did a lot of FORTRAN programming, which lasted until about 1990.
Big Bang
There have been a number of stories like
Theory
suggests universe without Big Bang in the media.
On Saturday mia_mcdavid, carpe_noctum_93 (our foster daughter), and I drove up to Duluth to see the tall ships. The crowd was huge, but the parking was not too bad for those of us who are used to big cities. The ships were impressive. I took some pictures with my Blackberry, which you can see here.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 