http://tornupletters.com/blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:59:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Scale of the Universe http://tornupletters.com/blog/scale-of-the-universe http://tornupletters.com/blog/scale-of-the-universe#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:59:35 +0000 E http://tornupletters.com/blog/?p=112

You can slide and watch the “Scale of the Universe“!

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Growth of The Internet

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]]> http://tornupletters.com/blog/growth-of-the-internet/feed 0 Printing press http://tornupletters.com/blog/printing-press http://tornupletters.com/blog/printing-press#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:20:00 +0000 E http://tornupletters.com/blog/?p=35 Gutneberg printing machine

Gutneberg printing machine

In 1440, German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing press process that, with refinements and increased mechanization, remained the principal means of printing until the late 20th century. The inventor’s method of printing from movable type, including the use of metal molds and alloys, a special press, and oil-based inks, allowed for the first time the mass production of printed books.

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]]> http://tornupletters.com/blog/printing-press/feed 0 YearBook http://tornupletters.com/blog/yearbook http://tornupletters.com/blog/yearbook#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:15:23 +0000 E http://tornupletters.com/blog/?p=101

You should have a look at all these celebrity photos one by one! It’s something i did. It was amazing to see that many of them look the same now as they did back in time when the photos were taken.

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]]> http://tornupletters.com/blog/yearbook/feed 0 How does Britain look from above http://tornupletters.com/blog/how-does-britain-look-from-above http://tornupletters.com/blog/how-does-britain-look-from-above#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:09:25 +0000 E http://tornupletters.com/blog/?p=94

Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird’s eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways.

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Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and so far the only planet known capable of supporting life. The average temperature on Earth is 7.2°C, but it varies much more than that at its extremes. The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 70.7°C in Iran. The lowest temperature was -89.2°C in Antarctica.

With temperatures dropping to -218°C in Neptune’s upper atmosphere, the planet is one of the coldest in our Solar System. Like all of the gas giants, Neptune has a much hotter core, which is around 7,000°C.

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Justice: What’s The Right Thing To Do?

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The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible…

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Spotify

●What is Spotify?

● Lightweight on-demand streaming
● Large catalogue of music
● Fast
● Legal

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● What?

● HTTP
● Moving to Thrift

● How?

● Mostly Twisted Python
● Two Java services
● One C++ service
● One web server

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]]> http://tornupletters.com/blog/spotify-behind-the-scenes/feed 1 The world that the future will inherit http://tornupletters.com/blog/the-world-that-the-future-will-inherit http://tornupletters.com/blog/the-world-that-the-future-will-inherit#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:57:24 +0000 E http://tornupletters.com/blog/?p=64

“The Girl Who Silenced the World for 5 Minutes”

In 1992, at the age of 12, Severn Cullis-Suzuki raised money with members of ECO, to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Along with group members Michelle Quigg, Vanessa Suttie, and Morgan Geisler, Cullis-Suzuki presented environmental issues from a youth perspective at the summit.

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