Screenshot of the Russian spam site o-o-6–o-o.com.
IBM Chip Die
Last year, a really beautiful little show at MoMA had some drawings of computer chips from the 70s and 80s. I went looking for high-res images – couldn’t find any but did unearth this image of an IBM chip die.
Random Map Bits: NYC
Processing Save Glitches
Glitches saving in Processing.
Virtual Memory Icon
A puffy monitor, representing virtual memory in Mac OS 8 settings, enlarged and cleaned up via Vectronic’s Apple World.
Found: File System List
An image found randomly on my Mac, titled FileSystemList.png (enlarged about 100 times).
Becquerel Plate
Image by Henri Becquerel, created by placing radioactive materials on a photographic plate, 1903. Via Wikipedia user Thangalin.
Dune On Mars
A dune on Mars, captured by NASA and posted on Lori Fenton’s great blog – her description of the image:
“A piece of Mars: A single dune sits on the surface of Mars, not too far from the north pole. It’s early spring, but this far north the dune is still covered in white CO2 frost (as well as a thin yellow layer of airfall dust). But the sun has done some work already: the dark spots are areas where enough frost is gone from the warm sun’s rays, revealing the lovely black sand beneath. Before long the frost will be gone and the dark dune will be fully released from its wintery blanket. (ESP_033729_2565, NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona)”
Gradient Vector
Gradient vector, via Math ∩ Programming, via Elementary Calculus.
Lightning
An artificial lightning strike via Mythbusters (collection 1, episode 6).