Snowy Screen (Let It Snow)

Go to www.google.com, then type "let it snow", and press enter.

At the start, you can notice the snowflakes falling from the top of the screen.

 The screen is then slowly filled with snowy sight. ;)

After a few minutes, you can hardly read some parts on the screen especially on the sides.

The unique part is there is a "defrost" button. ;)

Click the defrost button, and it will look like the picture above, with little snowflakes. ;)

Have fun! ;)

December 2011 Lunar Eclipse

The world is now watching the Earth's sole satellite - the moon.
The lunar eclipse on December of 2011.

Image courtesy to @haselemon

These are the only nice shots I have found as of this moment. ;)

Image courtesy to @haselemon

Source: @haselemon
Special thanks to: @AtoZyoU for retweeting
Links: first photo     second photo

Image courtesy to Ilovejks

Notice, the moon turned red. Why is this so?
When light from the Sun goes by the side of the Earth, it passes through a long and thick layer of Earth's atmosphere. Shorter wavelengths of sunlight, like blue, are scattered by the atmosphere. So by the time the light has finished its trip to the moon, more of the longer wavelengths, like red, are left over.
Source: NASA

read more about this at NASA's website

Steve Jobs: a Wizard, Not a College Dropout

It's impossible to begin to understand the sources of Jobs's success without looking to his unusual life story. Both his heroic posture as an inspired crusader striving to change the world and his famed passion for thinking differently sprang from the circumstances of his upbringing: like the fictional Harry Potter, he was a misfit, raised by adoptive parents who ultimately discovered that he was a wizard among the muggles. Jobs was born out of wedlock to two wizards, a.k.a. graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison: Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant pursuing his doctorate in political science, and Joanne Simpson, who was studying for her master's in speech. He was adopted at birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of San Francisco. Unlike Harry Potter's guardians, the Jobses were loving, supportive parents, but they were muggles nonetheless-working-class folks rather than the rarefied breed of intellectuals and artists that the teenage Steve envisioned as his own true identity.
Four of the hallmarks of Jobs's future business career --- his extraordinary persuasiveness, his constant risk taking, his rare deal-making ability, and his fierce perfectionism --- can be traced to his teenage years. The first three are sharply illustrated by his brief episode as a college student: Jobs would become known as one of the most famous college dropouts of our times, along with Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
But in Jobs's case the "dropout" image is all wrong. He was actually a "drop-in": he matriculated at Portland's Reed College, a bastion of the counterculture and leftist artsy intellectualism, even though he knew his parents couldn't--and wouldn't--pick up the tab. When the first bill came due and went unpaid, Jobs talked the dean of students into letting him stay in the dorms and attend classes for free. That's how strongly he wanted to be at an elite school and obtain its validation that he was indeed a wizard rather than a muggle. And that's how good he was at persuasion and deal-making --- and how open to real risk...


Source: Newsweek Magazine
September 5, 2011 issue

"Can You Crack It?" Wanted: Spies

Britain's GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) is looking for web-savvy cyber-sleuths-to-be.
Enter the correct keyword, and there is a countdown timer at the lower left side of the screen.
Here's the official website:
http://canyoucrackit.co.uk/


Read these articles:
1) http://news.yahoo.com/crack-spies-wanted-174506903.html
2) http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/12/can-you-crack-it-uk-agencys-website-seeks-new-spies/

Decode and be a spy. ;)

The Fascinating Force of Black Holes

image courtesy NASA

For the first time, scientists spotted a black hole devouring a star in a distant galaxy. One of the rarest astronomical events, it's believed to happen only about once per 100,000 years per galaxy.


"Earlier this year, scientists caught the first ever glimpse of 'one of the rarest of all astronomical events': a black hole gobbling up a star in a distant galaxy. Black holes are the Cookie Monsters of the universe, consuming everything in their path. The unfortunate star called Swift J 1644+57 actually met its demise 3.9 billion years ago..."


Here's the link to it:
http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/who-knew/black-holes-27425876.html


Related articles:
http://www.euronews.net/2011/09/19/black-hole-caught-gobbling-up-a-star/
especially this one (from NASA):
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/draco-blasts.html