Year: 2013

On the cover of Forbes … (not really)

I just accidentally discovered that one of my self-portraits (published on Flickr under Creative Commons) has been used in the article on Forbes.com website.   Wow!  This is the closest I ever got to the cover of the Forbes magazine (or any other magazine for that matter).

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Ironically enough, I took this picture when I had a flu while working on my first startup.  And now it’s been used in the article titled “Why Entrepreneurship Is Killing Me”.

Update (August 26, 2017): I am also on the list of 10 things that can completely wipe out humanity.

Snowflakes, close-up

A few years ago I posted the link to SnowCrystals.com, which had a whole lot of photographs of snowflakes.  It’s time to have a fresher look at the beauty of those ice crystals up-close.  Via kottke.org, I came across this Flickr collection of close-up images of snowflakes done by photographer Alexey Kljatov.

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Some are extremely simplistic in structure.  The others are the opposite – incredibly complicated.  Some are by alone, all by themselves.  Yet others are in groups.  But all of them amazingly unique and beautiful.  And available in larger image sizes too.

Space technologies on Earth

A few days ago I had one of those drunk conversations on the importance of space exploration.  A chunk of it was spent on trying to remember and figure out which technologies do we enjoy now that were initially develop for or during space missions.  Today, on this slow Saturday afternoon, I remembered the conversation and had a brief look around.  There are plenty of websites that show the top 10 or just a random collection of technologies that improved live on Earth, after being used in space.  But I think the better, all around, one is the Wikipedia page on NASA spin-off technologies.

There are quite a few things listed there, grouped and categorized under health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer, home, and recreation, environment and agriculture, computer technology, and industrial productivity.