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Passenger Records His Own Plane Crash


When Jonathan Fielding heard that the carburetor of the plane he was in had iced over, his first inclination was to grab his smartphone.

Fielding was on a flight over Utah, with his wife (it was her first time flying), his mother-in-law and baby. The propeller plane’s pilot announced that they would be forced to make a crash landing.

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Fielding’s phone captured the subsequent moments, which were surprisingly calm. Things do get alarming when the camera begins to shake and cuts out as the plane flips over on impact.

All of the flight's passengers were safe — but Fielding's cellphone chronicle gives…
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23 years later, Adobe releases the source code for the original Photoshop

2013 02 14 16h37 55 520x245 23 years later, Adobe releases the source code for the original Photoshop

Great news everyone, Photoshop is now free! The catch: The free version of Photoshop that you can snag came out in 1990.

Yes, Photoshop 1.0.1 source code, all 128,000 lines of it, is out today via the Computer History Museum, in cooperation with Adobe itself. You can download all that lovely code here if you are into such things. How could you not.

As PetaPixel points out, the first version of Photoshop was all but constructed by a single person: its co-founder Thomas Knoll. That’s a singularly impressive fact, that one person could build the first edition of a piece of software that would later see its name become a verb.

A few shots, to whet your appetite (via CreativeBits):

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photoshop3 23 years later, Adobe releases the source code for the original Photoshop

This news is particularly interesting as Adobe has been hard at work in recent months rejiggering the Photoshop brand. The company released a slew of online applications, and has been updating Photoshop itself to better support modern displays.

It’s interesting to note that Photoshop 1 in 1990 is far more powerful than Microsoft’s Paint in 2013.

Top Image Credit: THOR


How to Make Mathematically Perfect Nachos

Click here to read How to Make Mathematically Perfect Nachos Nachos are the ultimate party food; bad nachos are the ultimate party foul. You know the old sob story: There’s a platter full of chips, and only six of them have enough cheese. Some jerk dumped a can of salsa in the middle of the plate, and now people are worming their filthy plague-ridden fingers through an undetonated sour cream bomb to get at the one piece of fried corn that, against all odds, houses every topping. More »

Submarine cable map details the secret world of the underwater internet

Submarine Cables mapEven though we’re living in 2013 and can stream entire seasons of TV shows in between banking and sending work emails on our phone alone, sending data around the world is not exactly an easy feat. The internet exists how it does today thanks to the help of cables sunk deep into the world’s oceans. A new, gorgeous map details the world’s submarine cables as they appear in 2013, and shows us where the underwater internet is headed in the future.

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