Author Archives: Niall Murphy

The Nazi clobbering, lens-heavy Camera Comics, published between 1944 and 1946 by the US Camera Publishing Company (who else?) to encourage young readers to get into photography.

Linda Lens. Who’d have thought her destiny lay in photography?

Camera Comics: Awesome Comic Books from the 1940s (Petapixel)

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Bleeps, bloops, mission control soundbites and historic astronaut audio – all nicely packaged up for your Android/iPhone/mp3 message-alert and ringtone delectation.

NASA sez:

Here’s a collection of NASA sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions. You can hear the roar of a space shuttle launch or Neil Armstrong’s “One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind” every time you get a phone call. Or, you can hear the memorable words “Houston, we’ve had a problem,” every time you make an error on your computer.

Sound of satellite debris crashing through the roof of a community centre not included.

Download your spacetones here.

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