In New York, the MTA has unveiled the new #NYC subway map.

Not exactly revolutionary graphic design—not like Beck's London Underground map—but at first glance, more legible.

https://www.mta.info/map/5256

Incoming!

A soviet spacecraft that was launched in 1972 is forecast for an uncontrolled re-entry likely on May 9th or 10th, 2025.

The Kosmos 482 descent craft is the lander module from a failed Soviet Venera mission to the planet Venus.

Its landing module, weighs in at 495 kg and is highly likely to reach the surface of Earth in one piece as it was designed to withstand 300 G’s of acceleration and 100 atmospheres of pressure.

https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/04/kosmos-842-descent-craft-reentry.html

#Incoming #space #duckandcover

My Adelaide coasters arrived! I'm super happy with the PCB, it came out beautifully.

Edit: These will be available as a prize for a stamp rally event at OzComicCon Adelaide, and after that I'll make them available for purchase on my store and any markets I appear at.

Edit2: The for-sale versions of this will be rebuilt with OSM data, as the original design was based on SnazzyMaps-styled Google Maps. There will be some differences.

Edit3: #Adelaide + #Canberra are live! https://shop.chenonetta.com/product/pcb-map-coasters/

AppleShare Complete Archive

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/appleshare-complete-archive

#macgarden #softwarecompilations #apple

I just discovered that the National Museum of American History has a UCLA Computer Club "Moose" IBM card as a display. The moose was there since the IBM 360/91 was the only system that most students had access to at that time, and was used in batch mode (students not working on our ARPA projects that most students and faculty didn't even know existed at UCLA that is). The museum URL says this dates from the 60s, but it actually extended well into the 70s.

The Campus Computing Network's (CCN, not to be confused with CNN!) 91's resource usage was billed in so-called Machine Unit Seconds (MUS - ah, Moose!), that different departments and projects were allocated for their work. Of course the museum write-up doesn't discuss any of that backstory. I have multiple decks of these cards around somewhere from some classes where I had to submit jobs that way, even though I was simultaneously working on ARPANET.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_690512