Designer Richard Howe worked for two years to photograph all 11,000+ street corners in Manhattan: The Manhattan Street Corners is my working title for a project to produce a comprehensive photographic portrait of everyday life at street level in daytime Manhattan. Between March and November, 2006, I systematically photographed each and every one of the island’s roughly 11,000 street corners (the exact number is a matter of definition and, in some ambiguous instances, even a matter of judgment). The Manhattan Street Corners (via Kottke)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0ec0c82e112b41a6fe866c50b1ab06e7p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0ec0c82e112b41a6fe866c50b1ab06e7p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=0ec0c82e112b41a6fe866c50b1ab06e7" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/gizmodo_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compNEW YORK – Popular technology blog Gizmodo has set up shop in a Manhattan art gallery to showcase some of the rarest and most intriguing gadgets from the past hundred years or so, including never-released Apple prototypes, the first Sony Walkman, a flying aerial surveillance camera and more./pp The Gizmodo Gallery opened Thursday at the Reed Annex (151 Orchard St.), but we snuck in Wednesday night to photograph the most fascinating stuff on display here. The show runs through Sunday afternoon, giving New Yorkers, tourists and gadget freaks a chance to gaze upon important pieces of our technological history, and interact with some more recent gadgets. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/dragan_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compNico Reyes of the Reed Annex sits blissfully unaware of the Draganflyer X6, a flying surveillance device that "makes crane shots obsolete," according to its creators. That may be the case, but we can't fight off our initial impression that this could be the last thing we will ever see. /pp With an expert at the remote control, the aerial carbon-fiber shutterbug navigates tight indoor spaces with ease according to Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam, who said the beast is capable of holding steady in winds of up to 18 mph. A "failed motor logic" system keeps the system in operation even if two of the motors crap out. /pp Lam said the Draganflyer X6 accepts a night-vision camera or HD camera in addition to the vanilla flavor, and communicates its location to the remote using a GPS. As great as this gadget is for filmmakers and photographers, its potential application as a weapon is a bit worrying in a Terminator sort of way. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/sony_walkman_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compHere's the portable audio player that started it all: the original Sony Walkman, on loan from Sony's archives in Tokyo. Initially panned by critics, the Walkman became a worldwide sensation, eventually selling 340 million units. /pp Oddly, the device that kicked off the portable-audio revolution includes two headphone jacks for sharing music mdash; surely, unintentional prescience on the part of Sony, which could never have predicted the later connection between portable music formats and music sharing. /pp Model Alyssa Miller holds the original-model Walkman./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/apple_tablet_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compLegendary Silicon Valley design firm Frog Design lent Gizmodo a couple of Apple prototypes to display, including this MacBook Tablet mock-up, modeled here by Paulo. /pp Apple and Frog Design conceived this prototype using their Snow White design language, according to Gizmodo's Brian Lam. Although this portable tablet computer never saw the light of day, echoes of its design can be seen in the Apple IIc. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/atari_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compAtari never released a portable version of the Atari 2600 game console, but if it did, it may have ended up looking a lot like this Atari 2600 VCSp, seen here in the hands of writer Lisa Katayama. /pp The Atari 2600 VCSp is the work of hacker extraordinaire Benjamin Heckendorn (better known online as Ben Heck). This model is the first Heck ever made; he went on to build scores of vintage gaming mods that earned him a following among geeks and fans of vintage gaming. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/tenori_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compThis double-sided MIDI controller allows musicians to build loops of sound by pressing LED buttons arranged in a 16-by-16 grid. /pp This a href=" http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/10/tenori-on-lite-.html "video/a explains how it works, but the gist is that you control which loops play, and when they start and stop, by activating and deactivating the lights. /pp Unlike some of the other gear on display, the Tenori-On will be playable by gallery-goers who can listen to their own performances through a pair of headphones. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/dyson_level_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compGizmodo’s Brian Lam told us that the original Dyson vacuum cleaner was initially crippled in the U.S. market because manufacturers were worried it would cannibalize the multimillion-dollar market for replacement vacuum bags. /pp Luckily for inventor James Dyson, this version of his design was manufactured in Japan starting in 1983, giving Dyson the financial wherewithal to start making them himself. Twenty five years later, the descendents of the original Dyson are probably the world's most coveted model mdash; itself something of an accomplishment. Who would have predicted that vacuum cleaners could become such a hot topic? /pp Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan wields this original Dyson./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/death_star_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compOne of the largest Lego sets ever released, this Death Star was destroyed on its way from Lego to the Gizmodo expo. Luckily, the company introduced Gizmodo to Lego enthusiast Jonathan Lopes of Brooklyn. /pp The self-described "Lego nerd" arrived on the scene to perform a reverse Luke Skywalker on the Death Star, rebuilding it in time for it to be displayed Thursday morning mdash; no small feat, considering that it's made from 3,800 pieces and that he worked only from a picture of the fully assembled version. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/apple_phone_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compAnother Apple prototype loaned to Gizmodo by Frog Design, this early '80s conception of an Apple phone featured a handset and a monochromatic screen and stylus, allowing the device's potential owner to sign checks electronically over phone lines. /pp When Apple finally released its first phone in 2007, it didn't even come with a stylus, and the screen was much smaller. /pp Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan picks up the handset. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/thanko_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compOne of the most useless pieces of electronics we have ever laid eyes on, Thanko's USB tie and gloves provide you with heat or cool when they're connected to your computer's USB port mdash; perfect for commuting and outdoor sports, assuming your USB cable is long enough. /pp The gloves heat up, while a compact fan located in the necktie's knot generates a gentle breeze mdash; worthwhile in theory, if not in practice. As Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan points out, "All USB gadgets are awesome in some way." /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/picturephone_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compWhen this Bell Labs Picturephone debuted at the 1964 World's Fair, many of those who saw it in action, paired to an identical model in Disneyland, probably thought that every phone would feature video by the year 2000. They were close; instead, nearly every modern computer is capable of live videoconferencing, while home phones still largely resemble the models of the past. /pp A 1956 version of the Picturephone was capable of transmitting one picture every two seconds. This one apparently improved on that frame-rate by adding another two lines to the connection. This (nonfunctional) unit was borrowed from the ATT Archives and History Center. /pp Adam Lam uses the Picturephone pictured here to attempt contact with gadget freaks of the past, or so we imagine. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/zeiss_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compGoggles that let you watch video on a little virtual screen have been around for years, but many of them are plagued by poor image quality, low resolution and headache-inducing optics. /pp This pair, from the widely respected camera-lens manufacturer Zeiss, is an exception, with 640x480 resolution and an individual diopter for each eye that allows eyeglass-wearers to use the goggles. Battery life is four hours mdash; enough for all but the longest films. /pp In this shot, Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan watches a video stored on a video-capable iPod Nano. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/brian_lam_stomping_clear_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compWe wondered why two hunks of red foam and metal were included in the gallery, until Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam took a break from overseeing the construction of displays to demonstrate them. /pp With each step, a thunderous, robot-stomp sound emanated from his slippers, and by the end of his demonstration, we were convinced that they did in fact belong in the gallery. 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Rules:

#1 You may submit only one photo per contest.

#2 The contest runs for exactly one week, from the time stamped on the first post in the thread (this will be made by the winner of the previous week's contest).

#3 Please refrain from commenting on the photos submitted in the contest. I think that a good photograph is one that can appeal to someone who may not know much about the technical aspects of photography. I think it would be best if the judge isn't swayed by someone else's opinion of the photograph.The judge will decide his/her favorite at the end of the week, place a post listing it and a short synopsis of why he/she chose that photo. The winner is then responsible for starting a new thread containing a new contest and topic which again will run for exactly one week.

This weeks theme is Nature. I know this is a rather broad theme, but it should allow for more submissions. Happy shooting!

Mad clockmaker Roger Wood sent me this lovely, annotated photograph of his Chronulator-based clock that I wrote about here. He said response has been great and he plans to make a few more in the new year.

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Richard Howe takes photographs of Manhattan street corners. From March to November 2006, Howe took a photo of every single street corner in Manhattan, around 11,000 in all.

I photographed each corner just as I found it, almost always as seen from its diagonally opposite corner. Some of the photographs have no people and no traffic, others are completely dominated by people or even, in some instances, by traffic; the majority are somewhere in between. Most of the photographs simply show what people were doing on the corner when I got there: crossing the street or waiting to cross it, shopping, hanging out, riding a bicycle, and so on -- in short, doing what people do at almost any street corner anywhere in Manhattan.

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Phil Clandillon saw a recent post about sparebots, and was moved to show his own work.

Asked about his technique to make the animation, he responded with great detail and technical clarity:

It was a very DIY operation. I've been doing these interactive flyers for around 6 years in my spare time for Sancho Panza, who are a house music sound system / promoter (most famous for their annual stage at Notting Hill Carnival) over here in London, UK. I typically make the flyers over the course of one or two evenings so that quality can be a bit variable, but the dancing electronic parts man turned out well. In 2006 the theme for the year's flyers was that Matt and Jim from Sancho would send me a piece of music, and I would base the flyer on it. The February tune was "Over and Over" by Hot Chip which is a repetitive electro-pop number. I had the idea for the dancing man made from components based on this.

The process of realising it went something like this:

I dug around in the drawers at home for all the electronics bits I could find (also a work colleague at the time helped out by donating some more vintage bits, such as those used for the head and legs) and made up the character on a piece of bread board.

I then need to photograph him in the various "frames" in order to create the animation. The biggest challenge was mounting the camera so it pointed down at the breadboard and so it didn't move around between shots. Also lighting was a problem as the character need to be reasonably evenly lit so he wouldn't throw shadows.

I used a combination of an open frame from a filing rack (think a cube with no sides), and a plywood wine rack with a seven inch reggae record stuck over one of the holes. The type of seven inch with the middle taken out turned out to be exactly the right size to poke the camera lens through. I used two pillowcases and three desk lamps to make a rudimentary light tent. I then moved the character gradually through his dance moves, taking a photo at each step. One problem was that pressing the camera's shutter button caused the camera to move, putting the animation out of alignment, so I used the camera's self timer instead, resetting it for each shot.

I then made the final adjustments to the characters position by layering up the frames in Photoshop, before animating the result in Flash.

I have a website but it's a bit out of date at the mo (shoemaker's shoes and all that) - you can see more e-flyers in my archive. Interestingly the artwork for the website is also created from electronics. I had a friend who can solder better than me help me make up an LED logo of the tag I used to spray when doing graffitti as a kid. I then took it out on the street in London and photographed it in a variety of locations. These photos went on to form the backdrop for the website (my gf is standing out of shot holding a 9V battery on the end of two wires!).

Phil and colleague Steve Milbourne also recently did this Excel spreadsheet ASCII music video for AC/DC from a few weeks ago.

We're a digital creative team and we're very inspired by the maker scene, so a lot of our ideas involve getting our hands dirty with hardware and software. We're also daily readers of the Make: Blog!

Thanks Phil. Keep up the great work!

How are you changing the way you look at the things in your life? When you look at a pile of junk, what do you imagine? What do you make when nobody is looking? Pass along your ideas in the comments, and add photos to the Make Flickr pool!

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That floor looks mighty familiar, huh? That's because it is. Just days after Mr. Dave Zatz treated us to an unboxing of the 2Wire-built MediaPoint Blockbuster movie set-top-box, here comes yet another gift from the same den. The recently announced Neuros LINK was said to practically be a full-on computer, with the whole kit weighing some 15-pounds. Initial reports are that Hulu content played back beautifully in full screen, so yeah, that's a thumbs-up. We know why you're really here, though, so give the read link a visit for the gallery of photographs.

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div align="center"a href="http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/neuros-link-unboxed-setup/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgethd.com/media/2008/12/12-4-08-neuros-link-unbox.jpg" alt="" //abr //div That floor looks mighty familiar, huh? That's because it is. Just days after Mr. Dave Zatz treated us to a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/12/01/mediapoint-blockbuster-movie-set-top-box-gets-unboxed/"an unboxing/a of the 2Wire-built MediaPoint Blockbuster movie set-top-box, here comes yet another gift from the same den. The recently announced a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/neuros-intros-web-video-playing-neuros-link/"Neuros LINK/a was said to practically be a full-on computer, with the whole kit weighing some 15-pounds. Initial reports are that a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/tag/Hulu/"Hulu/a content played back beautifully in full screen, so yeah, that's a thumbs-up. We know why you're really here, though, so give the read link a visit for the gallery of photographs.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/homeentertainment/" rel="tag"Home Entertainment/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/neuros-link-web-media-viewer-gets-unboxed/"Neuros LINK web / media viewer gets unboxed/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:43:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/neuros-link-unboxed-setup/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/neuros-link-web-media-viewer-gets-unboxed/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391036/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/neuros-link-web-media-viewer-gets-unboxed/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/nzsOYKpd6VrNpo2Lft2-T_A0_yk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/nzsOYKpd6VrNpo2Lft2-T_A0_yk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=kK9IX7nm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=kK9IX7nm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=gJlOiU1U"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=gJlOiU1U" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/pwdKYwOaxtc" height="1" width="1"/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/96509?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+Iconic+tortoise+Lonesome+George%2C+80%2C+may+be+sterilech=Environmentc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Wildlife+%28Environment%29%2CWorld+news%2CEnvironmentc5=Environment+Conservation%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CEthical+Livingc6=Matthew+Weaverc7=2008_12_04c8=1128785c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Wildlifec13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FWildlife" width="1" height="1" //divpLonesome George, the conservation icon of the Galapagos islands and last surviving tortoise of his kind, looks set to stay lonely after again failing to produce offspring./ppGalapagos National Park officials announced yesterday that eight eggs laid by the giant tortoise's two female companions are infertile./ppConservationists' hopes were raised in July when George's mates produced eggs after no fewer than 36 years of encouragement by park rangers./ppThe eggs were placed in an artificial incubator but they did not develop embryos. There are now fears that George, who is thought to be around 80 years old and the last remaining member of the Geochelone abigdoni species, is sterile./ppThe most recent prospective mothers have accompanied George in captivity since 1993 but did not begin mating with him until late 2006. They belong to the Geochelone becki species – believed to be the closest existing relative of George. /ppBetween them, the females laid 13 eggs on Santa Cruz island in July./ppThe Galapagos National Park director general, Sixto Naranjo, said George could be sterile, or else the female's adjustment to captivity could have left them infertile./ppAnother possibility is that the diet in their breeding centre negatively affected their reproductive systems, he said./ppBut the conservationists have vowed to continue trying. A team of seven biologists and 26 park rangers have begun taking blood samples from tortoises on nearby Isabela island in search of hybrid species that share as many or more genes with Lonesome George./ppThe conservationists may have many more years to assist George – a tortoise called Jonathan on the island of St Helena is now thought to be the world's oldest living creature after a photograph of him has just emerged, confirming that he is likely to be at least 176./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/wildlife"Wildlife/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/u7eyLAUx_10If6m50rdNIRjR_xM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/u7eyLAUx_10If6m50rdNIRjR_xM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Are you looking for something to get you in the mood for Christmas? Well, this is the application for you! Adventoozle is an Advent Calendar with a difference, each day presents new challenges in the form of word and picture puzzles, testing all your Christmas knowledge! Adventoozle works just like any other Advent Calendar with the advantage of being able to carry it around in your pocket on your iPhone or iPod Touch! For each day where you have answered the questions correctly you will be presented with a wonderful Christmas photograph for you to use as your iPhone or iPod Touch wallpaper along with a festive joke for you to enjoy. All of this is available via an intuitive interface with a fantastic snow effect making it feeling like Christmas! For more information, visit www.z-appz.com. WORD PUZZLES Advent Anagram Rearrange the letters from the clue to create the Christmas answer i.e �Trims Cash�, Answer = Christmas December Dingbat Guess the missing words i.e �5 T on a F�, Answer = 5 Toes on a Foot Cryptic Christmas Clue / Carol / Character Decipher the cryptic and reveal the answer PICTURE PUZZLES Puzzoom! Fuzzle! Fuzzoom! Twister! Blockbuster! � will you let Adventoozle bamboozle you? From all at zAppz, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/41745?ns=guardianpageName=Media%3A+Disgraced+ex-New+York+governor+Eliot+Spitzer+to+write+for+Slate.comch=Mediac3=guardian.co.ukc4=Digital+media%2CPress+and+publishing%2CMedia%2CBusiness%2CUS+news%2CInternet%2CPoliticsc5=Press+Media%2CDigital+Media%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CMedia+Weekly%2CTechnology+Gadgetsc6=Jemima+Kissc7=2008_12_04c8=1128700c9=articlec10=GUc11=Mediac12=blogc13=c14=PDAh2=GU%2FMedia%2Fblog%2FPDA" width="1" height="1" //divpWhat next for the ambitious career politician who fell from the heady heights of strongNew York/strong governor after being linked with a prostitution ring? Journalism, apparently./ppMaybe no-one else would take him, but strongEliot Spitzer/strong has re-emerged a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081203/media_nm/us_spitzer_slate"on the magazine site strongSlate.com/strong/a a modest nine-months after the scandal of his involvement in a $1,000-per-hour prostitution ring./ppa href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderferret/125543849/" title="Front Door by wonderferret, on Flickr"img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/125543849_7c5a11958d.jpg" width="460" alt="Front Door" //abr /emNope, no prostitutes here. Photograph: a href="http://flickr.com/photos/wonderferret/125543849/"wonderferret/a/Flickr/a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_GB"Some rights reserved/a/em/ppSpitzer has begun writing a column for the site on the economy and financial regulation, group editor strongJacob Weisberg/strong said last night. a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2205995/pagenum/all/#p2"The first column/a explains why the government should not bail out big financial institutions, and that that money could have been used to "increase the intellectual capabilities of the next generation". "Our dependence on entities of this size ensured that we would fall prey to a 'too big to fail' argument in favor of bailouts," he wrote./ppWeisberg said Slate approached Spitzer several months ago about writing the column, and would have hired him "even if he'd never been governor"./pp"He was the de facto national regulator of the financial industry. I think he just has a keen understanding and a shrewd perspective on those issues," Weisberg said of the former 'Sheriff of strongWall Street/strong' - who had developed a reputation for cracking down on prostitution and financial crime./pp/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/digitalmedia"Digital media/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pressandpublishing"Press publishing/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/internet"Internet/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/1GFB2kMkOKWwaq_f7SD0l15JIIY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/1GFB2kMkOKWwaq_f7SD0l15JIIY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when she buried her head in her mom's shoulder for an iconic photograph of the Great Depression. She says the photo brought shame -- and determination -- to her family. "I wanted to make sure I never lived like that again," she told CNN. With the nation sinking into tough economic times, McIntosh says if there's a lesson to be learned from her experience it is to save your money and don't overextend yourself.div class="feedflare" a href="http://rss.cnn.com:80/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=tyl4y60C"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com:80/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=n89tGVol"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com:80/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=XUl7h6k7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=XUl7h6k7" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com:80/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=gIozrxfz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com:80/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=17DbheyE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=17DbheyE" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~4/vYOKNFIIMsQ" height="1" width="1"/

Author : Glenn Blakeslee

He became part of the Grand Flyby Mission midway through the third decade of his life, as a junior designer on the Flight Data Subsystem team.

He found himself at the leading edge of spacecraft design, and worked with the members of his team to build a robust device capable of data-handling functions for a long-term project.

He went to the Cape for the liftoff, was amazed to see the spacecraft climb on a column of flame. He met a girl on a Florida beach, and a year later married her.

The next years were heady times, as the spacecraft arrowed its way to the outer planets: Jupiter and her moons were imaged, and Saturn and her rings fell to the instruments aboard the spacecraft. He lived as fast as the data coming in, speeding the crowding freeways of LA in his sports car and drinking more than usual. He had an affair, which his wife did not discover.

The spacecraft’s mission was extended, and he found himself no longer a junior engineer but in charge of a team. The FDS was his baby, he the hands-down expert. The spacecraft was the first to perform a flyby of Uranus, and the first to photograph Neptune.

In the fifth decade of his life, he found himself settling down. His fast car had long ago been traded for a family-style sedan. He spent hours at work designing methods for upgrading the spacecraft, and when he and his team succeeded the job of the spacecraft changed again, to a long-duration interstellar mission. His wife learned of his dalliance a decade earlier and, bored and facing an empty nest, divorced him.

Some of the instruments on the spacecraft —those with no use in the sparser stretches of the solar system— were shut down, and though the incoming data never ceased it did slow. He found his staff reduced, which was expected. He found his life had settled into a slow rhythm —collecting data from the far-off spacecraft, sending updates across the expanse, sleeping and eating.

One year after the spacecraft crossed the termination shock —the inexorable slowing of the solar wind— he suffered a heart attack. He took time off but kept charge of his small team. With doctors orders he was back on the job, but charged with shutting down two more of the spacecraft’s systems. Three years later he retired.

He kept a firm hand on the spacecraft’s systems as a part-time consultant. With only two instruments still collecting data, the mission had collapsed to a terminal phase. They held a party when the spacecraft entered heliopause, and it reminded him of the good old days, when the spacecraft was running fast through the outer planets and the data stream held discovery after discovery. Now past the edge of the solar system, the spacecraft would coast quietly forever.

It became apparent to him that he and the spacecraft had led parallel lives, from a fast and fiery launch to a slow cold end.

Late in his eighth decade he found that his time in the sun had created a defect in his skin which, in the darkness and solitude of his late age, would probably end his life. So, too, the spacecraft: its time in the sun had ended, the reactors that powered it all but discharged. But it sped on, and so might he.

The rapid telemetry of his heart would slow, the data stream of his brain would trickle to a stop —but he knew, somehow, that he and the spacecraft would ride together, into the light of lesser suns.

 

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The world’s oldest living animal has been identified as Jonathan the tortoise after a photograph of him was discovered among a collection of Boer War scenes.