Day in brief – 2011-06-16

  • @asaliev Create public notebook. Add its RSS feed to TwitterFeed.com . Now you can share useful bookmarks and notes with the world. :) #
  • Google Chromebooks are now available from Amazon and BestBuy http://bit.ly/mzB2ft #
  • New note : Titanium Studio | Appcelerator http://bit.ly/lQPW8M #
  • New note : Oracle Resources for PHP (PHP and Oracle: Christopher Jones) http://bit.ly/iKNorT #
  • Merging all those changes to the stable branch … 1891 files changed, 214378 insertions(+), 207628 deletions(-). Huge deploy in a minute. #
  • Shared: Serious crime up 18.4 per cent http://bit.ly/krQ4ZU #
  • Shared: Biggest-ever swoop on illegal TV subscriptions http://bit.ly/kaLsps #
  • Shared: U.S. CIO Kundra leaving for Harvard post http://bit.ly/kWXtCc #

Total lunar eclipse

If you are reading it minutes after I post, then don’t lose precious time – run outside and look at the Moon.  Today you have a rare opportunity to observe total lunar eclipse.  If you are, and you probably are, late, then consider the illustration below.  Since I don’t possess all the necessary skill and equipment to make a photograph, I turned to my mad drawing skills.

Feel free to reuse the image as you wish, and please ignore all the scientific inconsistencies – I am not much of an artist and I had limited time.  After all, space bodies involved in this phenomena are moving fast.

Interestingly, even Google search is tracking the movement of the shadow.