Seen on Planet Debian: ‘Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?’ The solution starts:
#!/bin/sh
cp_p()
{
strace -q -ewrite cp -- "${1}" "${2}" 2>&1 \
...
The author notes in the comments:
If you feel the need to point out an alternative solution, then you have missed the entire point by a wide margin.
—lamby
Seen via True Chip Till Death: asciimeo is awesome. Like Vimeo, only.. ascii.
No embed URLs. Instead, check this video.
Seen via True Chip Till Death: poster for the upcoming 8 Bit Alliance tour!
First show is this Friday. I’m super excited!
Via Tayeb, some cool pictures of snow.
Snow being cleared from the Trans-Labrador Highway in northeastern Canada:
Thanks Suzanne — this Boing Boing article about Matthew Albanese’s miniature photography.
"Matthew Albanese [is] a photographer who builds meticulously detailed landscape models and then lights and shoots them to achieve amazing realism. My personal favorite is the Martian landscape made from paprika and charcoal." Also show here: Tornado made of steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss.
Gus mentioned to me that the USGS collects earthquake data. Among other things, they will tell you the last earthquake in New York (or any other state) and show you a seismic hazard map of New York (or any other state if you follow the link from their by-state index). However, in trying to find a "last five or ten earthquakes in New York" feed, I stumbled on the Earthquake Facts and Statistics page, which contains this gem:
We detect, but generally do not locate, about 50 mine blasts (explosions) throughout the United States on any given business day. These blasts typically occur between noon and 6 PM local time Monday through Saturday. Of these, about one event every two days is large enough that we compute a location for the blast and post it to a separate explosions listing.
(See a map here.)
You guys! You bunch of crazy scientists.
Seen via Suzanne: this intro video for the University of Alaska-Fairbanks’s hockey team.
Alaska Nanooks 2010 Hockey Intro from Szymon Weglarski on Vimeo.
Via Suzanne, this post on BoingBoing about hair ice.
While the term frost is used frequently as part of such names, these ice formations are not a product of frost. Frost comes about by moisture from the air being deposited on surfaces. As such frost is quite amorphous and would never appear as fine needles like we see here. Hair Ice is ice that grows outward from the surface of the wood, as super-cooled water emerges from the wood, freezes and adds to the hairs from the base.
