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Microsoft is Dead - What do you know, he’s right. Old news, yes, but good to realize.
Kuler - A great color scheme sharing and searching site from Adobe.
Discussion thread from the original iPod announcement. - Just goes to show how much people underestimate the power of good design!
Customer Service - A great article at Joel on Software on why customer service is so important. He’s right!
The Last Question - If you’ve never read this, it’s quite possibly the best sci-fi story ever written. Short and sweet, and so beautiful and true.
How to pour ketchup from a full bottle - Someone showed me this at dinner last night and it really works. I was amazed.
365 Days of Skywatching - A free e-book that shows what you can see in the night sky every day this year.
Wordpress 2.0! - I’ll review it soon. It looks like an improvement so far!
Zenphoto beta - get it while it’s hot!
Mint - Looks like a very well made stats app.

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Amazing Image of an Extrasolar Planet

November 14th 2008

This is a pretty incredible sight – a Hubble Space Telescope image of a planet orbiting a star 25 light years away from Earth. I am in awe. It’s not the first one ever taken of an extrasolar planet, but it’s certainly the clearest, and the first of one orbiting a normal star similar to the sun. The planet is about the size of Jupiter and estimated to be around 200 million years old. Amazing!

4 Responses to “Amazing Image of an Extrasolar Planet”

Joen Commented at 2:10 am on January 12th 2009

Gorgeous image. Reminds me of Carl Sagans “pale blue dot”. Incredible how an image showing one pixel can put things in perspective.

On a sidenote, and forgive me for posting here, I could not find your contact info: I’ve written a Zenphoto plugin which I think you may find interesting:

http://noscope.com/journal/2009/01/zenphoto-shorttags-wordpress-plugin
Peter Commented at 2:05 pm on March 13th 2009

Interesting… how do you know that is actually a planet? Looks like any other point on that picture =>
Garrison Harward Commented at 1:05 pm on November 14th 2009

Congratulations. It has been exactly one year since you updated your website … Have you been a little busy or something?
Tristan Commented at 2:35 pm on November 14th 2009

Haha, yeah, so it has. Just a little busy I’m actually planning on changing the format of this site to something I’m more interested in keeping up, but I don’t know when that will happen.

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