Now I think my geek-level must be really high these days, because I just can’t stop laughing on this user-agent string history written by Aaron Andersen.
If like me, you lived the web browser evolution since the early 90′s, you should read it now.
Via Daring Fireball.
Is Google becoming Buy n’ Large?
September 9, 2008
From Gizmodo:
Built by General Dynamics, the GeoEye-1 (satellite) is equipped with a next-generation camera made by ITT. This camera can easily distinguish objects 16 inches long, with 11-bits per pixel color. In other words: this thing can see the color of your shorts. It will be up there, looking at your pants every single day, the time it takes for it to complete one orbit. And it will keep doing that for more than ten years, its expected life.
And Google is the only non-gubernamental entity with the rights to use this information. Now let’s talk about books; how about Nineteen Eighty-Four?