ExpanDrive

Syntax Highlight Code in Less
Jeff and Matt both use cat, presumably because they’re so tough that they can read long documents faster than Terminal.app can print them to the screen. On the other hand, I use less, and now I use less with pretty colors. I’m superficial like that.

“Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer”
“Cellphones emit non-ionizing radiation, waves of energy that are too weak to break chemical bonds or to set off the DNA damage known to cause cancer. There is no known biological mechanism to explain how non-ionizing radiation might lead to cancer.”

Magnetic Fields Movie
Let me start by saying that I’ve heard a lot of people talk about magnetic fields, and I’ve never heard them described as a hairy ball. There’s a hairy ball theorem, and magnetic fields are sometimes said to act like hairy rubber hands (field lines “want” to be shorter, and further away from each other). But there’s no hairy ball magnetic field. The “hair” on the sun is really a magnetized plasma, and so I think it’s unfair to call it simply a “magnetic field” (it’s really much more complicated). And finally, all of the animations of magnetic fields seem to ignore the Earth’s own intrinsic magnetic field, which would likely dominate the room unless they hard some really impressive currents going through those pipes. In short, I wasn’t impressed.

The Big Picture
Stunning photos at Boston.com. Just go look. Do it now. Make sure you catch the high res photos of the Amazon undiscovereds.

Black Cab Sessions
Musicians driving ’round Trafalgar Square, playin’ a little tune, innit?

“One More Thing” An oldie-but-goodie from The Onion.