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  • BBC’s The Planets is one of the best space documentary series I’ve found outside of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. Instead of cheap computer animations, they use historical footage from interplanetary space probes to tell the story. The visuals and narration is top-notch. Both these series are on Netflix. Give ’em a watch.

  • This render of the Enterprise-D is awesome. Go to Flickr to see the high-res and give this guy some props, please.

  • GPOY House from the International Space Station. The Bay Area is shown bottom near-right.

  • “North Fucking Idaho” by Tyler Thompson.

  • Original wardrobe and makeup test for Levar Burton as Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Via Scott Jackson.

  • ikenbot: M94 Distance: 5,000,000 Light Years by Robert Gendler On visual inspection M94 appears to be a series of ring like structures. As one of the closest starburst-ringed galaxies it possesses one of the highest optical surface brightness nuclei known. At its center is a 1400 light year stellar bar which has been an important…

  • The images above show Safari 5.2 with page zoom on at 300%, Firefox 11 at 200%, and Google Chrome Canary at 200% both default and with image-rendering altered, browsing Dribbble. There are times you want to view something at actual pixels, regardless of your browser’s pixel ratio or your display’s pixel density. I went looking…

  • Check out my Flight Tracker demo on Dribbble. One, two, three shots!

  • Some sick iPhone speakers you’ve probably never heard of: The Nixon TPS Portable Stereo Speaker System. Buy one as a portable iPhone speaker. Or buy two and connect for stereo sound. Rechargeable 6-hour battery, or USB-powered. Wires tuck neatly away into solid aluminum chassis. $80. Watch the video and see if you’re not convinced.

  • Honda CB750, cafe racer style

  • New portfolio homepage for jayrobinson.org. 100% hand-coded, plain old semantic HTML, and responsive CSS. Please, do check it.

  • Kama Sutra, illustrations by Malika Favre.

  • Scientists Discover the Oldest, Largest Body of Water In Existence—In Space This blows my mind.

  • The Las Vegas Star Trek Attraction That Almost Came to Life in 1992: In 1992, downtown Las Vegas had become a distant second to the Las Vegas Strip. … The loss of business was turning the downtown area into a “ghost town” and something needed to be done quickly. The city needed an attraction –…