Every Noise at Once – an interactive music genre map. Click the right arrow on any genre to expand it.
IBM scientists Wednesday unveiled what they called "the world’s smallest movie," which tracks the movement of atoms magnified 100 million times.
The film, "A Boy and His Atom," depicts a character named Atom who befriends a single atom and follows him on a journey of dancing and bouncing that helps explain the science behind data storage.
"Capturing, positioning and shaping atoms to create an original motion picture on the atomic-level is a precise science and entirely novel," said Andreas Heinrich, a scientist at IBM Research.
In honor of the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web, CERN has restored the first website.
On a personal note, I had developed my first website way back in 1994. The site was known as Interactive Nest Egg and it was the digital version of my company’s (Investment Dealers’ Digest) publication, Nest Egg. At that time, it was one of a handful of financial sites on the web, and I’ll never forget the day it was announced on Yahoo!. Back then Yahoo! was the place to go to find out about new sites, as there were only a few sites going live per day. Good times…
Excellent visualization of the corrupting influence of money in politics. “See how money distorts your government, and what you can do about it.”
via Money wins Elections.
Ever wonder if the news story you’re reading is a product of real journalism or just a spin off of another story posted elsewhere? Discover the journalism you can trust and what you should question.
We needed to add 100+ bugs to our FogBugz database today, and I figured it would be easier to write a tool to import them than to enter them all by hand. Thank goodness for the FogBugz XML API and the Python library.
This tool reads from a CSV file (with header row) and adds the case via the API.
Example CSV data:
Category,Title,Project,Assigned To,Priority,Status,Milestone Feature,"Report is incorrect",Website,Unassigned,3 - Very Important,Active,Product Backlog Feature,"Login fails",Website,me@website.com,3 - Very Important,Active,Product Backlog Feature,"Logo is incorrect",Website,Unassigned,3 - Very Important,Active,Product Backlog
import csv
import sys
import os
from fogbugz import FogBugz
if len(sys.argv) < 5:
sys.exit("Usage: python fbInportCSV.py <URL> <USER> <PASSWORD> <CSV FILE>")
# Make sure the CSV file exists
if not os.path.exists(sys.argv[4]):
sys.exit('ERROR: CSV file %s was not found!' % sys.argv[4])
fburl = sys.argv[1]
fbuser = sys.argv[2]
fbpass = sys.argv[3]
csvfile = sys.argv[4]
# Connect to FogBugz server
fb = FogBugz(fburl)
fb.logon(fbuser, fbpass)
# For each row, print key data and add to FogBugz
with open(csvfile, 'rb') as csvfile:
csvreader = csv.DictReader(csvfile)
for row in csvreader:
print "Adding:"
print " Title : " + row["Title"]
print " Project : " + row["Project"]
print " Category : " + row["Category"]
print " Milestone : " + row["Milestone"]
print "======================="
fb.new(sTitle=row["Title"],
sProject=row["Project"],
sCategory=row["Category"],
sFixFor=row["Milestone"]
)
A very exciting discovery by NASA:
Scientists announced Thursday the discovery of three planets that are some of the best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our own solar system — and they’re very far away.
NASA’s Kepler satellite, which is keeping an eye on more than 150,000 stars in hopes of identifying Earth-like planets, found the trio.
Two of the planets — Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f — are described in a study released Thursday in the journal, Science. They are part of a five-planet system in which the candidates for life are the farthest from the host star.
The host star — the equivalent of Earth’s sun — takes the name Kepler-62, where the individual planets are designated by letters thereafter.
The third planet that’s potentially habitable, but not included in the Science study, is called Kepler-69c. Liquid water could theoretically exist on the surfaces of any of them, researchers said.
“With all of these discoveries we’re finding, Earth is looking less and less like a special place and more like there’s Earth-like things everywhere,” said Tom Barclay, Kepler scientist at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute in Sonoma, California.
“April is the cruellest month“.
On a better note, my daughter and I were both born in April. 
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